Cindy Davis to headline IRI Summit

Walmart Executive Vice President of Global Customer Insights and Analytics Cindy Davis has been confirmed as a featured speaker for IRI’s upcoming Summit.

The annual event, to be held April 20-22 in Austin, Texas, is focused on helping senior manufacturer and retailer executives find growth in the consumer packaged goods world. According to IRI, the Summit is a broad-based industry share-group designed to address the major business challenges facing retailers and manufacturers and to bring to light strategies for finding growth opportunities with shoppers via cutting-edge content and analytics, technologies and retail best practices.

Given that focus, Davis is an ideal retail executive to headline the conference. She leads an organization that helps Walmart and Sam’s Club understand broad customer trends, provide insight into customers’ needs across the world and create advanced analytical tools to support the business.

She joined Walmart in 2007, initially serving as senior vice president of Sam’s Club membership and marketing.Before joining Walmart, Davis was president of global development and communications at Rapp Collins Worldwide. She also served as vice president of brand marketing for the Pizza Hut division of YUM! Brands. Earlier in her career she held roles with leading companies in the hospitality industry and agency world.

In addition to Davis, notable speakers at from the CPG world at the IRI event include Tom Greco, CEO of Frito-Lay North America and Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup Company. For more information, click here.