Les Haut-Parleurs

With over 25 years of experience in marketing and analytics, Seoni understands business needs and how data and analytics can help solve them. A Chartered Marketer, he has worked with organizations of all sizes to unlock the value of information in decision-making and business strategy. He specializes in helping organizations understand population trends, segmentation and performance benchmarking and appears regularly on CTV’s Canadian and U.S. federal election coverage as a commentator on voter demographics in key races.

Ivano Pirro is an experienced sales leader with over two decades of telecommunications leadership. He currently supports more than 3500 team members across Bell, Virgin+ Best Buy Express and Lucky Mobile. As a strategic leader he is passionate about customer experience and talent development and driving high performance. Ivano’s leadership ensures Bell’s retail stores are a go-to for personalized customer service, innovation and simplifying complex technical problems into everyday value add solutions.

Ivano is a seasoned business leader whose contribution has been felt throughout Bell in a range of progressively senior roles. Ivano began his career with Bell as a technician, later serving in various call center roles, and then in 2006 he joined Bell retail stores leading the successful nationwide integration of brands like Solo Mobile and Virgin Mobile.

Ivano holds a Diploma in Business Administration from Dawson College and a Bachelor’s degree from Concordia University with a Major in Sociology and a Minor in Law.

Amar leads thought leadership on health and wellness. He creates insights that inform strategic decisions related to key drug, home improvement, discount, convenience, grocery, and digital channels. Amar is a seasoned brand, shopper, and advertising researcher. Before joining Kantar in 2018, he managed consumer insights at a leading CPG brand, which included brand management, packaging optimization, and product innovation. Amar has an MSc in marketing and consumer studies from the University of Guelph in Canada.

Vince is the Managing Partner of Watt International, a globally recognized integrated retail agency delivering strategic and creative services that help retailers position themselves for growth and success. As a seasoned and multi-disciplined strategist who applies a holistic view to assessing brand and business challenges, Vince has a proven track record in delivering solutions that get in-market results and build lasting brand equities for clients.

Having spent a number of years working in market research, consumer insight,
strategic planning, and business consulting, Vince brings a solid background
encompassing both agency and client-side experience. He has worked with leading national and global brands in the consumer-packaged goods and service industries, and with retailers on a global scale.

Sheri is a marketer, strategist, entrepreneur, media expert, speaker, and teacher.  Sheri has extensive experience in communications planning across the entire marketing ecosystem and loves understanding the consumer’s role in the decision journey.

With 20+ years of experience, Sheri has held numerous senior

level positions at various agencies in both Montreal and Toronto. Sheri oversees the agency team at PMG and believes that partnerships, agility and creativity are the keys to success.

When not at work you can find Sheri dockside or slope side depending on the season, traveling the globe with her husband or knee deep designing her next renovation.

Adam is the Senior Vice President of Product & Marketing at Flipp, a leading retail technology company. In his role, Adam is focused on building products and technologies that help people make smart shopping decisions while enabling retailers and brands to influence those decisions through digital merchandising experiences. 

Adam is an experienced, charismatic speaker, who most recently delivered the Concurrent Session at RCC’s Retail Marketing Conference in September 2023, alongside Matthew Cheung. Adam is an accomplished public speaker with the ability to distill complex and large ideas into relatable real-life analogies and examples that bring context and inclusivity to multiple audiences.  

Before joining Flipp, Adam led various businesses at Procter & Gamble including Retail Innovation, eCommerce, Market Strategy & Planning, and the Amazon Business Development Team. Adam graduated from the University of Toronto where he studied Computer Science and Political Science. Before graduation, Adam took a four-year break from University to tour the world as a member of a critically acclaimed reggae-rock band called Panic & the Rebel Emergency.