Alexander Belderok is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger where he leads the Global Consumer Platform.

He focuses on strengthening the competitive position of companies in the Consumer Goods, Retail, Food & Beverage, Agribusiness and Food Ingredients industry. He has specific functional expertise in business and corporate strategy development, performance improvement, organization restructuring, innovation, and complexity management. His clients value his sharp analytical and direct communication approach. He tells his clients not what they want to hear but what they need to hear, which separates him from the pack.

Alexander has five years of industry experience in the Flavor and Fragrance industry and over twenty years of consulting experience. He began his career at Unilever and has worked at Roland Berger since 2006.

His passions are in the fields of ground-breaking strategy development, quantum-leap performance improvement, business (model) innovation and value-chain reconfiguration strategies.

Alexander has published numerous articles, is a regular speaker at congresses and guest lecturer on food, animal nutrition, innovation, business model disruption, globalization and several operations topics.

Next to his role at Roland Berger, Alexander was also 5 years Chairman at Protix, the insect protein company, and is currently the Chairman of Nutrileads, a scale up that produces Benicaros, a clinically proven immune-support ingredient.

He studied both Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Twente, Business-to-Business Marketing at IMD and in the Advanced Management Program (AMP196) at Harvard Business School.

Aviva Tropp is a Partner in Prophet’s New York office. She focuses on helping clients grow through customer and brand-led transformation. With expertise in healthcare, consumer packaged goods, financial services, retail, and hospitality, Tropp has worked with industry-leading brands, including Mayo Clinic, BD, Keurig Green Mountain, MetLife, Capital One, PNC, CVS, and Hyatt.

Prior to joining Prophet, Tropp worked on the client side. She handled marketing and travel innovation at American Express and ran P&L as a brand manager at General Mills. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Columbia University and an MBA in marketing from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Frank Petraglia is a Partner at KPMG, where he leads the Deal Advisory and Strategy team, focused on serving clients within the consumer and retail sector. KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services.

Petraglia’s technical expertise is focused on transaction support, which he developed throughout his over 30 years of Big 4 experience. While he brings a specific focus on carve-out divestitures, his experience spans buy-side and sell-side, private equity, and corporate, with transaction values ranging from $50 million to $20 billion. Previously, Petraglia was an executive director of transaction advisory services at Ernst & Young. He graduated from ​​the University at Albany with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Morgan Seybert is the President and Chief Business Officer, Retail at Tredence. He works with eight of the top ten global retailers and CPG companies to shape their data and AI strategies. Seybert leads the Retail P&L and oversees growth initiatives across the company’s verticals, including generative AI, data and AI modernization, and cloud transformations. He has advised over 65% of Fortune 500 FMCG retailers and manufacturers on data and analytics.

Prior to Tredence, Seybert served as the managing director and chief product officer at Nielsen, where he was responsible for setting the company product direction and leading a global team of data scientists in delivering advanced analytics to Nielsen clients. At Coca-Cola, Seybert led the trade strategy and category management team to improve Coca-Cola’s trade promotion ROI and retailer partnerships. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Williams College.

Rachel Rosenblatt is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment of FTI Consulting and Head of the Americas Retail & Consumer Products sector. Ms. Rosenblatt specializes in reputation management, crisis communications, corporate positioning and communications training.

Ms. Rosenblatt has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic communications counsel, media relations, media training, presentation coaching, crisis management, corporate communications and public relations expertise to her clients. She works with some of the world’s most recognizable companies in the retail and consumer space to help them tell their stories more effectively, often in times of crisis or transformation. She has specific expertise in developing and executing multidisciplinary communications campaigns to impact multiple stakeholder groups in a meaningful way. Additionally, Ms. Rosenblatt works with companies through all phases of their life cycle, from IPOs to building and molding reputation, managing moments of crisis or change and supporting through litigation, bankruptcies or restructurings.

Ms. Rosenblatt is also a founding member of the firm’s Communications Training team and has designed and implemented media, presentation and investor relations training programs for multinational companies that have been executed around the world. As one of the firm’s senior trainers, she regularly coaches top executives in advance of media interviews, investor and analyst meetings, IPOs and major presentations.

Ms. Rosenblatt was ranked in the Top 10 of The Consulting Report’s 2024 list of the Top Consumer and Retail Consultants and Leaders, and was also named to Crain’s New York Business’s 2023 list of notable leaders in advertising, marketing and PR. In addition, she was honored as one of the 2023 Women Leaders in Consulting by Consulting Magazine and was PR Daily’s 2024 Communicator of the Year.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting in 2005, Ms. Rosenblatt was a Director at Westhill Partners, a boutique consulting firm specializing in communications strategy. She is a member of the Belizean Grove, a global group of female leaders, and is an active member of the Lenox Hill Hospital Auxiliary and chair of its communications committee. Ms. Rosenblatt graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in psychology.

Sudhakar Gudala heads Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) Consumer Packaged Goods and Distribution business unit. From strategic revenue management and supply chain management to hyper-personalization and new business models, he partners with the world’s leading household consumer brands to build resilient, agile and consumer-first value chains to compete and grow their enterprises.

No problem is too big for Sudhakar. A 30-year industry veteran, he has a proven track record of solving just about any business challenges presented to him with a fresh, new approach. He has built, from the ground up, TCS' Consumer Packaged Goods and Distribution industry unit into a globally recognized leader, which today works with seven out of the world’s top 10 CPG brands. His foresight gave birth to multiple award-winning digital platforms, including TCS RevenuePrime™ for revenue growth management, TCS Envirozone™ driven by sustainability-as-a-service solving critical challenges in sourcing, managing carbon footprints and compliance, TCS Green and Connected Ecosystem solutions for a sustainable, traceable CPG value chain, agency collaboration platform TCS Agency Marketplace, and cloud-based distributor management platform TCS Digitized Supply Chain Collaboration. These platforms cater to the key imperatives of CPG companies and evolving consumer preferences in today’s world.

For Sudhakar, building a culture of innovation starts with always challenging and transforming himself as a leader. He also takes personal interest in people and prioritizes relationships, so work brings more meaning than just better financial performance for his clients, his teams and himself alike.

Tiffany Brown is being recognized as a leader in the consumer and retail industries for the second consecutive year. Ms. Brown is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement (CPI) in Atlanta. She leads CPI’s CFO Services practice, partnering with Fortune 1000 companies to execute transformational initiatives that fuel growth, optimize costs, and create high-performing organizations.

With over 20 years of experience, Ms. Brown has advised clients across various industries, including consumer packaged goods and retail, focusing on finance strategy, reporting and analytics, enterprise data management, and finance technologies. She owns two patents for digital solutions that accelerated value for her clients' transformation journeys.

Before joining A&M, Ms. Brown worked at Accenture for over 21 years in several leadership roles. Select client examples throughout her career include developing an AI solution to automate cash forecasts at a Fortune 50 retailer and implementing a new financial planning and analysis solution that delivered $85 million in value for a global consumer packaged goods company.

Ms. Brown holds a BBA in accounting from Widener University and an MBA from Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. She has served on the board of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and has presented at industry conferences for Gartner, FEI, and CFO Roundtable. She has published on CFO-agenda topics and diversity in finance.

PC Thomas is a Vice President and Business Head at Tata Consultancy Services, overseeing the strategy and growth of a portfolio of some of the largest and most iconic retailers across the U.S., Canada and Latin America and leading thousands of associates across 11 countries.

With 25 years of experience partnering with the world’s biggest companies on large, complex enterprise transformations, PC brings a powerful record of accomplishment helping them accelerate revenue, growth, and profitability through strategy, innovation, corporate development, and digital transformation.

PC is a positive force to his clients, teams, and community at large. His secret to having some of the highest customer satisfaction ratings has as much to do with his problem-solving and business acumen as his empathy for people and lifelong learning. He is also a big advocate for the next generation, not only by coaching and mentoring future leaders, but also by promoting youth STEM programs and serving in the Dallas/Fort Worth Retail Executive Association and the Texas Workforce Commission Chairman’s Tri-Agency Workforce Council, where he is helping to close the skills gap and create economic opportunities in the Lone Star State. PC is a voracious reader, always watching what is emerging in retail, and calls TCS the world’s largest university, never missing an opportunity to better himself through continuous training in AI and other emerging technologies.