Kelly Ungerman is a leader in Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Practices in the Americas. She supports a wide range of clients on their strategy, marketing and sales, and consumer multichannel efforts.

Among recent initiatives, Kelly helped a major apparel retailer understand its consumer decision journey, designed a continuous channel strategy for a global mass merchant, and developed an omni-channel strategy for a consumer electronics retailer. She helped guide a broad commercial transformation for a large home- and personal-care business, including the redesign of its sales organization.

Kelly has also done recent work to guide the development of a new foodservice innovation process for a global packaged-goods manufacturer, redesigning its distributor strategy and helping the company to reverse its declining market share and position itself for long-term growth.

Robert Dowling is founder and CEO of Hudson Cutler, an integrated marketing company focused on helping clients address their business challenges and opportunities. In addition to his work with leading brands including Nike, Samsung, L’Oreal, and BMW, Robert is a recognized expert in cannabis marketing. He has launched and grown brands including 1906 and TheraCann, supported Irwin Naturals, Kahner Global and Cannabrunch, the Cannabis Investment Summit, and has been involved with legalization advocacy, license submissions and crisis management. Robert was recently included in the Holmes Report’s list of the industry’s top 25 innovators.

Joe Cannon is the VP of Business Development for Hyperice. Since joining in 2016, he has shown a keen eye for industry growth, forging partnerships with fitness brands that allow everyday athletes to recover like professionals. He sees Hyperice as a key element in a global wellness movement, led by educated professionals and empowered by forward-thinking brands in the fitness, hospitality, retail and consumer products spaces. His time is spent building official partnerships with industry leaders like Equinox, Barry’s Bootcamp, Under Armour, Dick’s and Michelob Ultra, just to name a few.

As General Manager of Community and Experiences, Gary Thompson brings decades of unique experiences of his own to his role at the Executive Council. From his early days at Apple in the late 1980s and 1990s in markets from education to retail to corporate accounts, culminating as manager of the Texas Education Region as Apple began its renaissance in both K12 and Higher Education in late 2003, Gary has been at the forefront of technology transformation.

During the dot com revolution, Gary not only launched the Texas eCommerce Association, bringing together executives from Dell to HP to Travelocity to Southwest Airlines to Broadcast.com (later sold to Yahoo! by founders Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner), but was appointed by two Governors of the State of Texas to the then nascent Texas eGovernment Task Force. Gary has also spoken on four TEDx stages from Austin to Malaysia, Rome, and Dublin, Ireland.

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Kelly Ungerman is a leader in Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Practices in the Americas. She supports a wide range of clients on their strategy, marketing and sales, and consumer multichannel efforts.

Among recent initiatives, Kelly helped a major apparel retailer understand its consumer decision journey, designed a continuous channel strategy for a global mass merchant, and developed an omni-channel strategy for a consumer electronics retailer. She helped guide a broad commercial transformation for a large home- and personal-care business, including the redesign of its sales organization.

Kelly has also done recent work to guide the development of a new foodservice innovation process for a global packaged-goods manufacturer, redesigning its distributor strategy and helping the company to reverse its declining market share and position itself for long-term growth.

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