Pierre heads the Management Team at Planet Retail and is responsible for the company's strategic direction. He has held commercial and general management roles in market leading insights and data businesses. Pierre is former Commercial Director of Fizzback, an award winning insights business focused on retailers, consumer goods and telecoms. He remains an active adviser to Fizzback. Prior to this Pierre was responsible for Southern European Sales and Operations for Forrester Research, the NASDAQ listed technology analyst firm. Pierre holds law degrees and an MBA from IMD in Switzerland.

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Bryan Roberts has spent over ten years researching and analysing the shifting retail environment, covering a wide array of retail sectors and trends around the world. Having previously worked at groups such as Retail Intelligence and Mintel, he has for the last five years headed up the Analyst Team at Planet Retail, personally specialising in the food, drug and mass retail channels in North America. In addition, he is in constant demand as a speaker at an extensive number of supplier, retailer and trade body events, providing an objective viewpoint on a broad variety of topics such as food retailing, private label, sustainability and Wal-Mart. He is also a regular commentator on retail issues for both domestic and international print and broadcast media, as well as regularly lecturing on retail at various universities. Bryan holds a masters degree in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick.

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Volker holds the position of International Sales Director, responsible for Account Management and support services for international clients, since 2001. In addition, Volker is a frequently invited guest speaker at international conferences. In December 2007, Volker was promoted General Manager for Planet Retail in Germany.

In 1991 he joined M+M EUROdATA as Director of Research, Marketing & Sales. Prior to joining this organisation, he held the position of a consultant at German consultancy Glendinning & Lehning (1986 - 1990).

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Paul is the Commercial Director at Planet Retail. He is responsible for managing the Business Development and Custom Research Teams. Additionally Paul leads all Partnership activities at Planet Retail and is the contact person for industry relationships to trade bodies and associations around the world. Paul is a regular speaker at trade events and conferences and specialises on topics such as Emerging Markets. He has been at Planet Retail since 2005 and prior to that worked at Mintel and The Economist Group. Paul holds a Masters Degree in Modern European History and Foreign Affairs from Augsburg University in Germany.

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Brian Wisniewski is an accomplished business executive with over 20 years of international experience, which includes working in over 30 countries. During the last 14 years Brian has worked in the consumer packaged goods industry for PepsiCo and The Quaker Oats Company. The last ten years he managed some of the largest retailers in the world including Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, 7-11, and Costco. Brian has experience with building and leading global customer teams and led the development of PepsiCo’s global customer strategy. Accomplishments include; 2007 Walmart International Supplier of Year, Consumer Goods Technology magazine 2006 Customer Management Award winner, 2001 Walmart Vendor of the Year. Brian was also the International Controller for Quaker Oats Company and worked ten years at Nielsen Marketing Research in Paris and Milan, Italy. Brian holds a Masters degree from Roosevelt University and a B.S. in Accounting from Michigan State University.

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Gavin heads the Global Accounts Team at Planet Retail and is responsible for client retention and growth. Previously Gavin was Head of Partnerships for Visit Britain and was tasked in driving both private and government partners to help sponsor promoting Britain as a tourist destination abroad and prior to that was Head of UK Sales for Ovum, a well known telecoms and IT market research company. Gavin holds a BA in Business Studies from the University of Westminster.

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Michael leads the Marketing Team at Planet Retail and has responsibility for marketing across several other businesses at parent company Emap. Prior to working for Planet Retail and Emap, he held various marketing roles across the technology and new media sectors, working both in North America and Europe for Sybase and Iona Technologies. Michael has a degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Southern California and a post-graduate diploma in Marketing.

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Corinne is responsible for Product Development at Planet Retail. She has taken on a variety of roles ranging from Analyst to Managing Editor, Publications Manager and more recently Product Development Manager in the nine years that she has been with the company. Prior to Planet Retail, she was the Editor of the European Retail Digest, published by the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, and a Retail Analyst with Verdict Research and Chesterton. Corinne has a degree in Geography and Management Studies from Leeds University.

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Dating back to 2001 Dave was involved in the initial development of Planet Retail. More recently he is responsible for leading the Software and Development Team for Planet Retail. With a background in streamlining data capturing systems he previously worked in the financial sector managing data warehouses. Dave has been awarded a Microsoft MVP for outstanding achievement for technical leadership in the development community.

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