Infosys is a Session Sponsor
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Event details
Date: June 9 – 11, 2014
Location: The Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street at Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Event overview
Infosys is a Session Sponsor of the CGT Sales & Marketing Summit. Themed around IT / Marketing Alliance, the 2014 Summit brings sales, marketing and IT thought leaders together, to explore and compare strategies for aligning themselves better.
Session details
Session: Networking Luncheon with Topic Tables
Topic: Marketing-Trade-Retail Execution: The Holy Grail – Delivered
Date: June 10, 2014
Time: 12 noon – 1:15 p.m. EST
Location: The Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street at Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Session description
Marketing, trade and sales have traditionally operated in their silos. Playbooks developed by marketers rarely reach the sales representatives in their intended shape. Trade plans and promotional schemes are rarely made available to sales representatives in time. Significant incremental revenue and margin can only be unlocked when marketing, trade and sales teams work seamlessly. Join us to discuss and share experiences, challenges, best practices, and the way forward to making this happen.
Session: Panel Discussion
Topic: Going Digital: Driving Profitable Growth
Date: June 10, 2014
Time: 5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. EST
Location: Session 4-B, Plaza Room, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
Moderator: Prateek Sinha, Associate Partner – Retail, CPG and Logistics, Management Consulting, Infosys
Speakers: Brian Bolten, Head of Strategy, eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions
Harris Fogel, Vice President & Global Lead, Mobility Center of Excellence, Consumer Products, SAP
Bernard Goor, Vice President, Retail and Consumer Goods, Oracle Corporation
Session description
There is a clear shift in the preferences and behavior of consumers towards digital. As a result, most CPG companies have shifted their focus on knowing and engaging with consumers across multiple channels. However, driving profitable growth cannot be limited to just that. Know, engage, profit – clearly needs a much broader value-chain view of the power of digital.
Where do CPG companies direct their digital investments? Is it marketing, sales, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, sourcing, organization enablement, or emerging markets? Get answers to all these questions and more. Join our panel of industry experts as they talk about significant digital initiatives that have delivered value for them.
Speaker profiles
Brian Bolten, Head of Strategy, eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions
Brian Bolten is the Head of Strategy for eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions. Brian has worked with top organizations for nearly 20 years delivering on business objectives by meeting consumers’ needs throughout their journey.
At eBay Enterprise, Brian developed the proprietary Customer Experience Journey (CEJ), anchoring Forrester’s evaluation of the company as a strong performer in the customer engagement space.
Brian graduated from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and received an MBA degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Harris Fogel, Vice President & Global Lead, Mobility Center of Excellence, Consumer Products, SAP
Harris has close to three decades of experience in the Consumer Goods industry. His expertise lies in the areas of mobility, sales force automation, and sales and marketing systems and processes, specifically CRM, big data, and analytics.
At SAP, he is responsible for leading strategy and go-to-market tactics for the Mobility Center of Excellence in the Consumer Products industry globally.
Previously he has held leadership positions at several prominent multinational organizations in the fields of consumer goods, business, IT, Mobile sales force automation etc.
He has also previously served as a Chairman of the Grocery Manufacturers of America's (GMA) Associate Member Council.
Bernard Goor, Vice President, Retail and Consumer Goods, Oracle Corporation
Bernard Goor has been involved in the Retail and Consumer Goods industries for the last 20 years, both as an industry executive and as a solution provider.
In his global role at Oracle, Bernard is responsible for strategic customer engagements, solution and messaging development, business development, sales enablement and partner enablement for the Retail and Consumer Goods industries.
Bernard Goor received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Louvain, Belgium and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas, Dallas.
Meet our experts
Kishor Gummaraju, Vice President – Retail, CPG and Logistics Management Consulting, Infosys
Kishor leads the retail, CPG and logistics Consulting practice. He has more than 17 years of experience in working with leading retail and CPG companies across multiple business transformation engagements. He has also been responsible for leading several innovative solutions. He is an active member with leading industry associations.
Twitter handle: @KishorThoughts
Prateek Sinha, Associate Partner – Retail, CPG and Logistics, Management Consulting, Infosys
Prateek Sinha leads Infosys Retail and CPG Consulting practice in North America. He has 17 years of consulting experience in the retail and CPG industries. During this time, he helped launch several coffee and tea brands, managed a beverage business, and led transformations for various global retail and CPG companies.
Twitter handle: @retlguru
Opinder Sardana, Client Partner – Retail, CPG and Logistics, Infosys
Opinder Sardana is a Senior Executive with 18 years of combined experience in digital and integrated marketing, pricing strategy and execution, sales, and P&L management at Fortune 500 companies in consumer goods, manufacturing, logistics, technology, and retail verticals.
Opinder has been with Infosys for the last three years. He is responsible for managing new business and client relations for the eastern region, and is a founding member of the digital marketing practice for the retail and consumer goods vertical.
Prior to Infosys, Opinder was Managing Director of a leading British advertising company where he was responsible for launching a new global business unit.
Twitter handle: @opinder
Eric Lambert, Client Partner – Retail, CPG and Logistics, Infosys
Eric Lambert has helped several multinational firms in the CPG, retail, media, hi-tech manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare industries profit from technology-led business solutions for over 20 years.
Eric joined Infosys in 2008 and led global business development for Infosys China operations for four years. During that time, he worked with many Infosys clients to diversify their outsourced projects to China, in addition to India. Since 2012, he has worked with CPG and retail clients in the eastern US, with emphasis on ERP, supply chain, and e-commerce services as well as strategies for growth in emerging markets.
Prior to Infosys, Eric was with an international software group in Europe and US, where he led sales of videoconferencing and collaborative software solutions.
Twitter handle: @relambert62
