When I started the “CPGers Who Rock It As Entrepreneurs” blog and podcast series, I focused on the people who left the corporate world entirely to start a new venture. Imagine my surprise when I learned that there is a different way to go about...
From being a Shopper Marketer at top CPG companies, to sales leader at a rapidly growing digital media company andalso becoming a startup entrepreneur... Josh Bruns has been on an unorthodox but exciting journey.
For the last couple of years, I have been doing podcast interviews with former CPGers who are running their own businesses. Recently, one of my subscribers half-jokingly told me "Don't forget to interview yourself!".
I first met Carmen Brace many years ago when we both worked for Conagra Brands. I admired her vibrant energy and sharp mind, so even after both of us left the corporate world, I followed Carmen's entrepreneurial story and always looked forward to...
Roger Jackson discusses his 10 years of experience in CPG roles at companies such as Unilever and Kraft, and how they inspired him to create Shopper Intelligence, the largest international program of systematic shopper insights today.
5 years into co-founding the Canadian ready-to-drink brand, SoCIAL LITE Vodka, Neetu Godara reflects on her transition from a CPG professional to an entrepreneur and her life-changing experience.
This podcast series has been in the works for a long time. In my five years long entrepreneurial journey, I met several people who became my inspiration, my mentors and simply good friends because we shared a life-defining common experience:
