Muller brings over 15 years of experience in dynamic brand creation, marketing strategy, and e-commerce growth. She joined The GRO Agency as their Chief Strategy Officer in 2018. Her focus is on developing insights and impactful strategic direction that connects brands with consumers. She’s inspired by finding the intersection of data, storytelling, innovation, and visual identity. Her current passion is in democratizing creative resources for emerging CPG brands and shepherding meaningful CSR-driven marketing activations for enterprise clients. Over her career, she’s worked with such notable brands as Nestle, The Hershey Company, PepsiCo, Estee Lauder, and Samsung.

Mike Schneider is a seasoned executive who lives at the collision of brand, experience and product. A long-time blogger and thought-leader, Schneider got his start drinking and evaluating craft beer and co-wrote Location Based Marketing for Dummies.

Since 2017 David has led marketing for Topo Chico at The Coca-Cola Company and has developed & implemented a methodical multi-year brand building plan that achieved #1 sub segment share in the U.S., won Ad Age America's Hottest Brands 2019 and was rolled out in Latam in 2020. He and his family recently got transferred to Atlanta, 8 months ago. He is a super fan of Formula 1 and in his free time he enjoys playing Golf, cooking with his family and traveling to have new experiences.

Brittany Jacobs is a Senior Account Executive at Instacart supporting Beverage brands. Her passion is elevating ad strategy to the next frontier. Prior to her time at Instacart, Brittany spent over 7 years at Pinterest in both National and Global roles supporting large scale CPG companies and before that spent 5 years at Hulu leading various operational teams.

As VP Emerging Brands for New Revenue Streams (NRS), Matt Hughes leads emerging brand commercial strategies across channels and routes to market, partners with NRS investment portfolio brands to accelerate growth and leads integration of investment brands upon acquisition. In addition, Matt is developing incremental growth platforms for The Coca-Cola Co. as a member of the NRS lead team. Matt was a founding member of Coke’s Venturing & Emerging Brands (VEB) in 2007 and has been in the beverage industry for over 30 years and launched three entrepreneurial beverage brands prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company. As the leader of VEB Matt led the transition of the business unit to New Revenue Streams and established the strategic relationship with Molson Coors for recently launched Topo Chico Hard Seltzer.

Bonnie currently serves as the CMO of L.A. Libations. She began her leading award-winning sponsorship activations for Fortune 500 brands for Advantage International, a leading IPG experiential marketing agency. In 2013, Bonnie returned home to Hong Kong and founded a coconut water business in the Philippines where she oversaw construction and secured the factory’s operational and Organic certifications while establishing a team of 75 employees. In 2018, she built an incubation program for L.A. Libations serving as a launchpad for emerging brands to enter retail. In 2020, she then launched an in-house CPG marketing agency which she passionately leads today. Bonnie has a B.A. degree in Communications and a Business Minor in Consumer Behavior and Marketing from the University of Southern California.

Jacqui Brugliera is the Director of Marketing for BevNET, NOSH, Brewbound and Taste Radio. She is also the Producer of our Elevator Talk video series which introduces emerging brands to the industry and is the co-host of our Taste Radio podcast. As a Marketing and Global Perspectives graduate of Bentley University, Jacqui is passionate about the food and beverage industry, specifically its cultural and environmental impact.