Nicole Massey
Nicole is an experienced innovator and business leader with over 20 years of CPG and consulting experience. Nicole leads front-end innovation and growth strategy for the J.M. Smucker Company and is a founder of Velocity, a Smuckers initiative focused on accelerating growth through partnerships with the entrepreneurs and founders disrupting the CPG industry.
Previously, Nicole led teams across innovation, marketing and sales at Del Monte Foods and Big Heart Pet Brands, and was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Nicole has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College
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Michael Parness
Michael Parness is currently the CMO of Outward Hound where he leads the Marketing and E-commerce teams. He has a unique background in both Marketing and as a Product Designer with over 150 media awards and 11 Utility Patents. He is a proven growth leader with over 20 years’ experience scaling Private Equity and Publicly owned companies in Consumer Products, Baby, Pet, Entertainment, and Quick Serve Restaurants. He has worked with over 50 brands including Disney, Tefal Cookware, Mattel, Hasbro, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Infantino and more.
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Marie Cesbron
Marie Cesbron is a health&beauty leader with over two decades of hands-on experience transforming global brands such as Lancôme, Maybelline, Vichy Laboratories and building innovation capabilities within L’Oréal R&D as well as Walgreens Boots Alliance. She currently is Director of Innovation at Walgreens Boots Alliance’s consumer brand arm. Deeply in tune with changing consumer behaviours and macro-trends, she is passionate about the merge between wellness, health and beauty. She has worked and lived in Paris, New York and London. Marie holds an MS in Marketing from HEC Paris and a BS in Psychology from Paris Descartes University.