
Big Way Hot Pot grew by asking a precise question: what if a shared ritual worked one bowl at a time? Co-founder Christiana Luo turned customization into the menu, the message and the route across North America.

She learned marketing in stores, stadiums and scrappy beverage teams. Now Kyle Watson is protecting three distinct brand identities while turning community attention into durable growth.

From a neighborhood reading garden to mobile ATMs dispensing tacos, KeyBank's chief brand officer has built a career around one durable idea: institutions earn attention by showing up in people's actual lives.
Matthew Pantoja is the Chief Brand Officer of Alpha Industries, the outerwear label famous for the MA-1 bomber and M-65 field jacket. Over two decades he has moved through New Era, Reebok, Palladium Boots and Triple 5 Soul, building a career on turning heritage product and youth culture into commercial energy. Since joining Alpha in 2016, he has helped steer the 60-year-old military supplier from surplus-store staple to global lifestyle brand, overseeing product, marketing and brand experiences across every region and channel.