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Angelina Yagudayev Built a Canadian Apparel Business. Now She Is Matching Stories With Shelves Worldwide
Her career is a study in commercial range: start with one market, learn every handoff, then turn brand recognition into something a retailer can actually sell.
Angela MacInnis Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Things Feel Simple
From youth marketing at DDB to a national retail reset at Best Buy Canada and a new chapter at KITS, Angela MacInnis has built her career around one deceptively hard brief: make the customer experience easier to understand and better to use.
Mari Loewen Built a Food Brand Around the Small Rituals That Make a Life
She turned a kitchen-table magazine into an education in publishing, digital reinvention and retail - then brought the same editorial instinct to the grocery aisle.
Mary MacIsaac Moves at the Speed of the Shopping Cart
Inside Loblaw's marketing machine, Mary MacIsaac turns cupboard curiosity, live customer signals and local store voices into brands built for everyday Canadian life.
Ashish Khera’s Retail Playbook: Let the Store Do the Talking
At Healthy Planet, Ashish Khera is treating each new store as a local experiment - one where format, education and trust matter as much as the marketing campaign.
Cindy-Lynn Steele Knows the Store Is a System
From software engineering to Grocery Gateway, Giant Tiger and fractional leadership, Cindy-Lynn Steele has spent more than 25 years treating marketing as an operating system - one that must connect the customer, the store and the numbers.
Tanbir Grover Built the Digital Aisle Without Abandoning the Store
Across Sears, Hudson’s Bay, Lowe’s Canada and Pet Valu, Tanbir Grover learned that digital retail works best when the people running the stores can see themselves in the plan.
Jason Potter
Jason Potter is the President and CEO of Grocery Outlet, the Emeryville-based bargain grocery chain known for its independent owner-operator model and treasure-hunt aisles. He took the top job on February 3, 2025, after nearly five years steering The Fresh Market and 26 years climbing through Sobeys, Canada's national grocery giant. He started bagging groceries at 13 in a small Alberta town and has been in the trade ever since.