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Mark Cotter and the Trouble with One More Chip
After decades in food marketing, Mark Cotter can admire a new product and still ask whether anyone needs it. The Food Group CEO’s career runs through culinary school, seafood, orange juice and a business that keeps changing how it earns our attention.
Laurie Fleck Knew the Best Time to Leave
She spent nearly eight years turning an agricultural agency into a national specialist. Her final management decision was the rarest one: handing it over before anyone had to ask.
John January Built an Advertising Career by Following the Strange Signal
The Signal Theory co-CEO has spent three decades turning curiosity into an operating system - from farm-country solitude and homemade films to behavioral science, food brands and one enduring rule: make the thing.
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.
Corrie Mueller Is Taking a Global Marketing Playbook to the Snack Aisle
After senior Reckitt assignments across Canada, the United States and Asia, Corrie Mueller has moved into a different kind of consumer ritual: the everyday snack. Her new brief at Johnvince Foods joins brand craft to the machinery of sourcing, roasting, packing and retail scale.
Janet Conning Makes the Business Case for Better Bread
At Bäckerhaus Veit, Janet Conning works where old-world baking meets the modern deli case. Her public comments reveal a marketer focused on the small product decisions - from slice size to half-loaf formats - that turn craft into a useful customer proposition.
Tabata Gomez Knows the Brand Begins at the Table
From cosmetics to power tools to the spice rack, Tabata Gomez has carried one operating idea across categories: get close to the consumer, give teams a clear vision, and move while the moment is still alive.
Alejandra Gonzalez learned English from Friends and built a career selling chicken across 40 countries
From a bank teller's desk in El Salvador to the marketing chair at KFC's 40-country Latin American business, on a passport full of stamps and a habit of applying for jobs she wasn't ready for.