Meet our experts
Our global team of 100+ employees aren’t just incredible leaders, mentors and negotiators. They have proven experience delivering impressive commercial outcomes in highly influential global FMCG businesses. Working as an extension of yours, our team apply their commercial experience to your business challenges, helping you transform your people and your approach to commercial negotiation. Get to know our team below.
Filter:
TN Focus
Region
Leadership team
Bernhard Wessels
Chief Solutions Officer
Languages: English, German, Afrikaans
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
Bernhard Wessels
Chief Solutions Officer
Bernhard has worked in Consumer Goods, as practitioner and consultant, for almost 25 years. He joined Total Negotiation Group recently and his experience includes 15 years with Kantar Consulting, working as Managing Partner for the North Asia division (based in Shanghai China for 5 years) and latterly as Senior Partner heading up the Digital Commerce and Revenue Growth Management practices for Europe, based in London. Before that he worked 9 years for Procter & Gamble in South Africa and the UK.
He has consulted in over 50 countries and has a wealth of international experience including Category, Capability and Organisation, Digital Commerce, Route to Market and RGM expertise across different retail environments. Bernhard has worked across the world but particularly in North America, Europe and North Asia.
Bernhard is an inspiring leader with a can-do attitude. He challenges others with his thinking, often bringing fresh perspective to business problems, but then also very pragmatic in his solutions and supportive of the team. His rich and varied international experience allows him to bring realism (and sometimes a bit of mischief) to the conversation, with engaging examples, and a sense of urgency.
Mark Cranstoun
Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
Mark Cranstoun
Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner
Mark is a highly skilled negotiator with extensive, senior commercial experience in the FMCG sector. His experience ranges from managing large commercial teams through to managing projects delivering transformational results.
A qualified coach from Henley Management College, he is also a Licensed Practitioner of both Insights and NLP. Prior to co-founding Total Negotiation in 2009, Mark worked at Nat West, Swiss Bank Corporation, Mars and Diageo.
Known for creating both pace and change that improve business performance. Mark is adept at understanding negotiations from multiple perspectives, which enables him to spot more opportunities to negotiate and helps ensure ongoing organisational alignment.
Mark Grice
Chief Commercial Officer, Founding Partner
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
Mark Grice
Chief Commercial Officer, Founding Partner
Mark has developed his negotiation experience in a number of senior financial and commercial roles up to Board level, working extensively internationally. He works successfully in both B2C and B2B environments, adding value to complex negotiations through being able to easily move between operational and strategic modes of thinking. Prior to co-founding Total Negotiation he worked in FMCG, licensing, finance and marketing industries, including PWC, Diageo, Disney and Catalina Marketing.
His style is described by clients as authoritative, flexible and passionate. He is challenging and thought provoking to ensure that clients are thorough in their preparation for negotiations. As a qualified Chartered accountant, Mark has a highly commercial outlook on negotiation.
Worked with a FMCG client to create a saving of AUD$400k for FMCG client through a redistribution of investment between customers. Ongoing consultancy support of a client resulted in distribution agreements set to deliver additional market share and incremental margin of AUD$15m. Advised and supported a FMCG client to implement their first price in five years, delivering more than £3m in incremental profit.
Stephanie Green
VP, Sales
Languages: English, French, German
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Selling
- Category Management
Stephanie Green
VP, Sales
Steph has 23 years experience in CPG and retail including board level, her past roles include Chief Commercial Officer at Gymshark, Category Director at Aldi UK and Head of Operational Marketing at Muller Dairy UK. She previously held various commercial roles at Pepsico, Reebok and Adidas.
Fluent in French and proficient in German, Steph has a proven track record of helping businesses across the globe identify growth opportunities, develop strategic plans and drive cross functional collaboration to execute those plans.
Steph has great knowledge of branded and own label markets, online and offline retail markets and understanding of both supplier and retailer issues which she has leveraged to help many businesses step change their revenue management capability.
Steph is an expert in Category management, Shopper Understanding and turning Information to Insight.
Steph is an approachable expert and uses her commercial knowledge and experience to challenge current ways of thinking. She will help bring a shopper and retailer perspective to transform commercial proposals into compelling, actionable solutions for clients.
Susan Moore
Chief Operations Officer
Languages: English, French, German
Location: UK
Susan Moore
Chief Operations Officer
Susan has more than 20 years experience across a wide range of functions and sectors.
Over 15 years in Diageo, the global spirits leader, she held senior roles across front end commercial, finance, supply chain, marketing and innovation.
Then, as a consultant, supported a wide range of businesses - from FMCG to oil and gas, to tech; from FTSE10 to pre revenue start up – in commercial and finance transformation.
With this blend of client, function and transformation experience, Susan has a proven track record of driving process transformation to allow growth at pace, whilst ensuring clients always receive the highest level of service.
Experts
Abdessatar Bahri
Associate
Languages: French, Arabic, English
Location: Tunisia
- Negotiation
Abdessatar Bahri
Associate
Alan Page
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
Alan Page
-
Negotiation
-
Creative negotiation strategy
Alan has more than 30 years of commercial experience in both CPG and retail. Alan had a long career with Colgate-Palmolive becoming Vice President of Global Customer Development responsible for deepening engagement and deriving value from their relationship with Global Customers . During his 23 years at Colgate-Palmolive Alan worked in operational sales and sales capability roles in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, the United States and Switzerland. Prior to joining Colgate-Palmolive Alan worked for Tesco in various Buying and Marketing roles at the UK largest grocery .
Alan has a proven track record of delivering team capability across the globe by identifying solutions to business challenges. He has transformed business relationships, developed growth plans by focusing on joint value creation with key customers partners
Alan has great knowledge of international markets, having worked outside the UK for nearly 20 years. As part of regional and then global reams he was responsible for working with key stakeholders to up skill and driving capability with multi-functional teams around the world. .
Alan is an expert in Customer Engagement,, Negotiation and developing plan to unlock complex business problems.
Alan is an approachable expert and uses his commercial experience to challenge the status quo. He brings a wealth of knowledge to help overcome business challenges, developing compelling actionable solutions to transform business relationships
Alex Houghton
Associate
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Revenue Management
Alex Houghton
Associate
With +20 years’ experience in Revenue Management & Pricing, Alex has a proven track record in developing revenue management strategies and teams across B2C and B2B sectors. In addition, he has 10+ years of experience in implementing revenue management systems in large FMCG and service-based companies.
Alex also has strong skills in leadership, commercialisation, digital transformation, project implementation, and market research. Alex holds a Master in Revenue Management from Cornell University, Post Graduate Diploma of Financial Markets from the Securities Institute of Australia, and a Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) from the University of Western Sydney.
Key achievements include implementing a multi-platform revenue management system and AI model for one of Australia’s largest FMCG manufactures, launching multiple go-to-market product strategies, and successfully negotiating 3 trading terms with Australian grocery retailers.
Alex would consider himself an approachable team builder & motivator, with exceptional commercial acumen.
Alexander Obst
Associate
Languages: English, German
Location: Germany
- Negotiation
Alexander Obst
Associate
With his profound sales and marketing experience from more than 15 years with global companies like Beiersdorf and Colgate as well successfully bringing a completely new brand like eos into all relevant sales channels in Germany and beyond, Alex has gained deep expertise of the German and European FMCG market and its retailers, especially in Drug Stores, grocery, pharmacy and speciality channels.
Alex’s consulting focus is supporting his clients in Account Planning, Go to Market projects and how to win retailers for new or existing brands, in both traditional brick & mortar channels and e-commerce. If the project requires, he steps in as interim sales manager and provide an effective onboarding process after successfully launching the brand.
Knowing that especially in sales things not always follow Plan A, Alex will always look situations from various perspectives and contribute positive thinking together with different strategic options to finally achieve the goals.
Alex has been a lecturer in Sales Management and Retail Management at Hochschule Worms and HNEE Eberswalde.
Amrapel Situmorang
Associate
Languages: English
Location: Indonesia
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Amrapel Situmorang
Associate
Partnership negotiations
Commercial Sales Capability
Revenue Management
Route to Market
Amrapel is a seasoned Commercial Sales Director and General Manager in FMCG for 24 years, has an impressive track record with multinational companies. His career spans diverse sectors, including insurance, healthcare, finance, and the beverage industry. Amrapel's educational background in Finance and Strategic Management has been the foundation of his success.
Known for his strong experience across various functions—such as Finance, Strategic Planning, Commercial Sales, and Marketing—Amrapel has consistently excelled in his roles. His involvement in strategic projects like Corporate Planning, Market Development, Route to Market, Restructuring, and Transformation has significantly boosted enterprise value.
Amrapel is recognised for his ability to lead and execute successful strategic initiatives that contribute to business growth. His leadership and strategic insights have played a crucial role in transforming in both GT and MT, enhancing excellence customer negotiation, proving him to be a valuable resource to win customers.
André Leonhards
Partner, DACH
Languages: German, English, Dutch
Location: Germany
- Negotiation
- Selling
André Leonhards
Partner, DACH
André has worked in Consumer Goods, as practitioner and consultant, for over 25 years. He joined Total Negotiation Group recently as Associate Director of Consulting and his experience includes 12+ years with Kantar Consulting. Prior to joining Kantar André worked in Sales and Marketing roles in the alcoholic beverages industry for ABInbev and William Grant & Sons.
André has been leading consulting projects in DACH and NL across many categories and channels, covering a wide range of commercial topics, including Category and Channel Strategy, Capability, Commercial Organisation and Route to Market. His focus is FMCG. André is native German and fluent in English and Dutch.
André has a positive yet challenging attitude and mindset and is very successful in convincing people to join the transformation journey in the course of consulting projects. He has a strong hands-on mentality and is very good in developing actionable solutions with his clients. His extensive experience in many consulting projects enables André to provide real-life examples and inspiration when working with clients.
Andreas Vertesi
Associate
Languages: English, French, German
Location: Switzerland
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
Andreas Vertesi
Associate
Andreas acquired valuable managerial and commercial experiences over more than 25 years, in FMCG companies at international level, across functions and cultures, but importantly also in Switzerland. He recently joined the Total Negotiation Group as an Associate Consultant.
Andreas is a passionate Salesman who worked in many leadership roles in Trade and Shopper Marketing, in Key Account and Category Management and as Sales Strategy Director.
He is pragmatic, creative and results oriented and a strong capability builder. He holds an ICF certificate as Coach and a Swiss Diploma as Marketing Specialist.
Andrew Jennings
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Revenue Management
Andrew Jennings
Associate
Andrew has deep commercial and operational expertise built on the solid foundations of a varied career path. Three years as a buyer with Somerfield followed by 24 years in numerous commercial leadership roles with Kraft Foods / Mondelez, culminating as Managing Director of the UK business. During his career he has been instrumental in developing European and Global sales strategies based in both the UK and Switzerland.
Andrew is an inspiring business leader highly respected for strategic thinking, pragmatism and has a track record of successful results. He is an industry subject matter expert on Sales Strategy, Commercial Planning and Trade Terms.
A calm, engaging, approachable and composed style that enables the development of positive and co-operative relationships at all levels, across multiple geographies.
He is at his best when adding value to a business challenge as he can often see the wood for the trees where others can’t. His agile, positive character together with an honest and objective approach, quickly builds credibility, integrating into teams with mutual respect.
Andrew Mardon
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UAE
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Andrew Mardon
Associate
Andrew is an experienced Consultant who has worked in the FMCG industry for over 17 years. He has experience in ‘client side’ sales leadership roles and in senior Consulting roles within the Middle East
Andrew started his career with Britvic Soft Drinks in the UK and moved to Dubai in 2009 where he joined NFPC as a Key Account Manager responsible for the business relationship with Customers such as Carrefour and Spinneys
In 2011 Andrew joined Kantar where he eventually became a Director of Consulting working with a number of clients in the FMCG & Luxury Retail sector. His specialism is in Negotiation & Sales Capability. He has developed and delivered sales academies and specific training content for clients that include Arla, Reckitt Benckiser, Coca-Cola, Zespri and Abbott. Andrew is an expert content developer and facilitator of content in core sales commercial topics such as Negotiation, Selling, Category Management, Trade Spend Optimisation, Joint Business Planning, Customer Management & Merchandising Excellence
Recently Andrew has been working as Sales Director for the UAE local distributor of Red Bull where he led the Modern Trade, General Trade and HORECA sales units. He has since been working independently in a consultancy capacity with clients in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Andy holds a B. Sc. In Psychology from University of Lancaster, England
Andy Williams
Managing Partner, Middle East
Languages: English
Location: UAE
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Andy Williams
Managing Partner, Middle East
Andy has over 30 years of international commercial business management experience. Andy started his career at Castrol in the UK where he honed his skills in customer management, selling and negotiation with the automotive sector. He moved to Asia with Castrol to lead the market entry plans for China and subsequently worked across the Asia Pacific region in a range commercial leadership roles. Following BPs acquisition of Castrol, Andy led the strategic partnership with Ford Motor Company for Europe and Asia.
Andy moved to Dubai in 2006 to help establish Glendinning Middle East, a specialist consultancy business, which was subsequently acquired by WPP under the Kantar Consulting brand. Andy has worked extensively across the region with a range of B2B, CPG, & Pharma clients to address a range of commercial challenges and to unlock step-change profitable category & top-line growth.
Andy established the Regional Office for Total Negotiation Group in January 2023
Andy holds an BSc from Manchester University. In his spare time Andy plays a range of sports to channel his competitive instincts and try to keep fit
Ayman Nasreldin
Associate
Languages: English, Arabic
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Ayman Nasreldin
Associate
Ayman is a highly skilled negotiator, with a career spanning more than 20 years working for the some of the world’s biggest companies in the FMCG sector. Ayman held various Senior Commercial Roles whilst at Nestle, PepsiCo and Mars Wrigley Confectionery. He brings a wealth of Customer and Category experience having led a wide variety of channels, including Grocery, Impulse, Out of Home and Discounters.
A Qualified Coach from The Oxford School of Mentoring and Coaching, he is also a Certified Executive Coach, who brings his passion and talent for helping people to Total Negotiation to help clients embed their learning.
Ayman loves positively challenging to unlock their potential whilst focussed on performance for themselves and their organisation. Balancing a Strategic Mindset and getting things done, Ayman brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to TNG.
Ben McPhee
Associate
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Ben McPhee
Associate
Ben has worked in the Australian FMCG industry for over 20 years. His experience includes 12 years with Lion Australia, and 8+ years with Diageo Australia.
He has worked in various Commercial Customer Sales roles and has led numerous learning and development teams across both businesses. His expertise including Customer Account Management, Field Sales Leadership, Customer Services Leadership, Sales Strategy Design and Implementation, Learning and Development, Leadership and Culture Coaching.
Ben is a positive leader, who develops strategies, people and teams that deliver results. He proactively seeks opportunities to add sustainable value to organisations through change leadership.
Brett Stover
Associate
Languages: English
Location: USA
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Brett Stover
Associate
Brett has over 35 years of global marketing, sales, strategy, and leadership experience. With 18 years in industry and over 15 years in consulting, Brett is a strategic marketing, negotiation and sales authority working with leading consultancies and agencies such as TNG, Saatchi & Saatchi, Glendinning, and Kantar Retail.
Brett spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble (P&G) covering all categories and geographies across multiple functions including Global Sales, Marketing, Market Research, Product Development, and Marketing Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Brett was an CPG industry pioneer and recognized global expert in Shopper Marketing Strategy connecting brands with shoppers in traditional bricks and mortar stores and e-commerce.
Growth Strategy Consulting: Led 40 Strategic Growth initiatives for top-tier companies and organizations around the world helping clients see, create, and seize the future. Delivered results by understanding where to play, how to win and what to do. Known as a catalyst, connector, and proven leader whose strength is leveraging insight-based ideas for business growth.
Clients include: Unilever, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Coca-Cola, Mars Candy, General Mills, Nestle, Clorox, Campbell’s, Mattel/Fisher-Price, Pfizer, Abbott, Pharmavite, Sony, J&J, Grupo Bimbo, Lego, Michelin, and Treasury Wine Estates.
Carlos Esteban
Managing Partner, FIPS
Languages: Spanish, English, Italian
Location: Spain
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Carlos Esteban
Managing Partner, FIPS
Carlos has worked in Consumer Goods for over 20 years covering Sales, Customer Marketing and Senior Leadership roles in Procter and Gamble, SC Johnson and Campofrío at Local and Regional level.
He has worked in Spain, Italy, Russia, Hungary in line Management positions and conducted Consulting and Capability work in over 10 more (Europe, Latam) in areas such as Category Strategy, Shopper Marketing , Channel Strategy, RTM….in Categories such as Beverages, Spirits, Food, Laundry and Cleaning Products, OTC, Health and Beauty Care,…..
Carlos has a wide Multi-country experience that allows him to work across different cultures categories and situations, as well as hand on experience in Sales and Trade Marketing that gives him a wide real experience on how to connect Strategy and Execution.
Carlos is fluent in Spanish, English and Italian.
Claire Harding
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
Claire Harding
Associate
Sales, Negotiation, Marketing, Category Management, Commercial Learning and Capability Expert, Emotional Intelligence Master Practitioner, Coach, Business Psychologist
Claire has over 25 years of commercial experience, is a commercial learning and capability expert, business psychologist, emotional intelligence coach, and change management practitioner. She brings a unique blend of skills, experience, and expertise from sales, marketing, revenue management, coaching, and commercial learning and capability roles across many categories, industries, and markets. Her past roles include head of Commercial Excellence Capability, Suntory Europe, Category and Partnership Director Warner Bros., Sales and Marketing Director HarperCollin’s Publishers plus she has held various sales, marketing and category roles at Disney, KP Snacks and McVitie’s.
Claire has a proven track record of enabling individuals, teams, and businesses transform by helping them recognize, and reach their potential by building the right skillsets, mindset, and behaviours that deliver personal and professional results. She has worked successfully with all levels from graduates to C-suite.
A practitioner in multiple psychometric assessments, a humanistic psychologist, and has been a commercial coach and trainer for over 10 years.
Claire has a personable action-centred approach that combines curiosity, positive challenge and emotional intelligence to enable transformational results, unlock potential and deliver long lasting behaviour change and personal growth. She will help bring an emotionally intelligent, commercially compelling, and best in class capability based on knowledge, experience and latest psychology research to drive sustainable results for clients.
Clare Bocking
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
Clare Bocking
Associate
Sales
Commercial
Category
Learning & Development
Clare is a high-impact Executive Director who is passionate about accelerating company performance through culture and talent.
30 years of corporate leadership success started with Mars as a graduate recruit. Her career continued with major global branded manufacturers including Britvic Soft Drinks, Kerry Foods, McCormick and Danish Crown. Clare has lead Sales, Commercial, Category and Learning & Development divisions and is an experienced Board and Non-Executive Director.
Clare is a committed life-long learner, qualifying as an Executive Coach at the University of Warwick in 2014 and gaining distinction in a Diploma in Organisational Change at Warwick Business School in 2023.
A passionate advocate of industry diversity and talent, Clare is Chair and a Coach for Women & Diversity in Wholesale plus supports several industry mentoring schemes.
Clare is an experienced consultant, trainer and conference presenter and has been inspiring and supporting companies over the last 12 months with step-change strategy projects, sales team productivity and creative JBP solutions.
Dany Aboukhaled
CEO and President, North America
Languages: English, French, Arabic
Location: Canada
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
- Negotiation
Dany Aboukhaled
CEO and President, North America
Dany, a result-oriented senior executive, has more than 20 years’ experience in the FMCG sector in Canada and Europe.
Having worked at L’Oréal and Kimberly-Clark in different functions across his career from Sales, Marketing, Category Management, Human Resources to Executive management, he excels in high level negotiations, revenue growth management, Go To Market strategies focused on growth to achieve brand/customer goals, and organisational transformations to maximise growth, and face the new digital era being online sales or digital marketing. He is known to develop strategies that create value for his clients and their customers.
Dany has developed and coached many talents during his career through an empowering and inspirational leadership style. His strategic vision and innate ability to guide people and teams help them reach their goals and contribute to the overall success of the organization. He is an effective communicator who focusses on getting things done. Dany has many real life examples of different strategies executed and their impact on the businesses.
Danielle Kennaugh
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Category Management
Danielle Kennaugh
Associate
Category Strategy & Vision Creation
Perfect Store Execution
Danielle has over 20 years experience in FMCG and retail. She is an expert in Category strategy, with a diverse and experienced background, in various product segments and specialist sectors. While working for the likes of Mars, AG Barr, Tesco and Pets at Home, throughout her career, Danielle has maintained a sharp focus on driving commercial success.
Her expertise in Category management is both broad and deep, while complemented by a comprehensive understanding of retail operations and perfect store. Which ensures that Danielle consistently delivers mutually beneficial outcomes for her valued clients, retailers and the consumer.
Danielle has been part of multiple FMCG and retail strategic projects that have resulted in successful business aquations or public offerings, notably working with several venture capital firms such as KKR, Barclays and Endless.
Danielle’s versatility is central, as she effortlessly navigates between the boardroom and the shopfloor. With her educational foundation that includes a degree in mathematics and completion of a prestigious fast-track management program, with one of the UK’s leading grocers.
Danielle is motivated and engaging, bringing her blended skills, knowledge and experience to every project she works on to deliver compelling and actional insights.
David Tulloch
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
David Tulloch
Associate
An astute senior commercial executive having held increasingly senior roles in European Markets, Africa Middle East and Asia Pacific over a varied international career in Commercial and General Management.
David has worked for Nestle, PepsiCo (Walkers Snackfoods) and most latterly HEINEKEN NV in multiple geographies. He is a dynamic and strategic commercial leader with demonstrated history of success in customer relationship management delivering growth and business transformation in mature, start up and turnaround operations. Skilled in Sales, Marketing and Category Management, Revenue Growth Management and developing and nurturing high performance teams.
David Warburton
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
David Warburton
Associate
Prospecting, Value Selling, Structured Persuasive Selling Commercial storytelling, Maximising strategic opportunity
David is a highly skilled sales expert with 20+ years extensive, senior commercial experience in B2B and B2C organisations. His most recent senior sales roles include Just Eat and Lantum.
His experience ranges from managing large sales teams through to managing projects delivering transformational results in sales capability. David has worked extensively across the world with experience of most markets and multiple sectors, where his functional expertise easily translates.
Known for creating clarity and change that improve business performance. David is adept at understanding sales from multiple perspectives, which enables him to spot more opportunities for continuous improvement and helps ensure ongoing organisational alignment and development.
Dean Allder
Partner & VP of Business Development
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Selling
Dean Allder
Partner & VP of Business Development
Dean is a proven commercial professional with excellent negotiation and sales skills gained from managing large customer portfolios and budgets. Dean is a highly regarded, proven senior professional with excellent strategic, sales, negotiation and people management skills, combined with extensive experience and proven success in managing large customer portfolios.
He held senior roles with Pepsico & Reebok and ran his own consultancy before joining Total Negotiation, as a Partner in 2013. Dean is also, a licensed Insights practitioner.
A passion for people development has led Dean to deliver more than 200 capability programs across 4 continents, each one with as much enthusiasm, energy and inspiration as the first. He's known for his ability to translate training into commercial reality for delegates across cultures.
Eduardo Benzius
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Location: Brazil
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
- Route to Market
Eduardo Benzius
Associate
Eduardo boasts over three decades of expertise in leadership, management, and project execution in strategic, marketing, sales, and operations fields across various industry sectors. His diverse career spans work with the global agency McCann-Erickson, Diageo, Patria Investments, and most recently, his roles in new economy businesses with Amazon and several start-ups. In the consumer market, he made a significant impact at Diageo, where he spent 20 years and held key roles such as CMO for Brazil/Paraguay/Uruguay, Head of the North/Northeast business unit, and Commercial VP for the acquired firm, Ypióca.
More recently, Eduardo has led projects for clients such as Beam Suntory Brazil, Nutrimental, JDE, among others in Brazil. He possesses a deep understanding of the FMCG market dynamics from multiple perspectives – consumer, channel, customer, and brand.
Eduardo is experienced in leading and managing teams in multicultural and international settings and is fluent in three languages: Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
His expertise extends to consumer-focused marketing, digital marketing experience, and the successful execution of innovation projects and category expansion for clients.
Eliza Bernardi Duque Estrada
Associate
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, German
Location: Brazil
- Negotiation
- Selling
Eliza Bernardi Duque Estrada
Associate
Transforming Commercial Capability;
Selling & Negotiation Skills,
Business Development & Business Intelligence ; Route to Consumer
Marketing; Product Development;
She has 25 years of experience in FMCG multinational companies, such as Diageo, Unilever-Bestfoods, and Cargill, where she played a crucial role in building global brands, optimizing portfolios, and leading commercial teams in Latin America.
She has worked in Capabilities, Marketing, Trade, and Communication, leading Global Brands such as Hellmann's Mayonnaise and Johnnie Walker, and campaigns with international celebrities such as Lewis Hamilton, Mika Hakkinen, and John Travolta, achieving significant returns in terms of visibility and conversion.
Fluent in English and Spanish, and proficient in German, Eliza has a proven track record of helping businesses across Latin America identify growth opportunities through acquisitions and empowering people to grow by identifying and developing local talent.
Eliza has extensive knowledge of retail markets and has implemented consumer route projects involving the execution of omni-channel strategies. She possesses strong planning and financial skills, along with analytical acumen; she has implemented channel campaigns to expand market share and achieve growth targets.
Her deep understanding of business and passion for learning stand for a transformation in commercial culture and for building the best-selling machine that accelerates performance and enables people's growth.
Enrique Salas
Associate
Languages: Spanish, English
Location: Spain
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Enrique Salas
Associate
Eric Debarnot
Associate
Languages: English, French, Portuguese
Location: France
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Category Management
Eric Debarnot
Associate
Eric is an Engineer by education, but he moved early in his career to Fast Moving Consumer Goods : he worked for 15 years at Mars Inc., in a variety of positions such as IT, Finance, Marketing and Sales in 4 different markets (France, UK, Germany and Brazil). He also led the Brazil Moet Hennessy BU, and later acted as Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing in Campofrio Food Group.
He then embraced a consulting and training career, initially within the Kantar organization, where he eventually led the South American operation. He speaks fluently and can train in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese) and he is currently based in France.
Eric has acquired a strong experience throughout his career in Category Strategies, Route-To-Market Development, Shopper and Channel Strategies, Distributor Management. Eric is passionate about capability development, and helping Sales Teams grow to develop better and long-term customer relationships
He believes that great Business Performance is primarily the result of excellent implementation of transformation projects.
Eric Muir
Associate
Languages: English
Location: Canada
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Category Management
Eric Muir
Associate
Eric has worked in Retail for over 40 years covering Store level Management, Regional Operations, Marketing, Private label development and Category Management. In his early development at Shoppers Drug Mart, he worked in junior level roles and through his accomplishments and drive, held a senior level position in merchandising at Shoppers Drug Mart. In 2008, he moved to Walmart Canada where he held SVP positions in both Category Management and Private Brand development
He has a proven track record of year-after-year success achieving sustained revenue, EBIDTA and business growth across a competitive retail landscape in Canada. He demonstrates a strong customer focus and cross functional orientation, blending strategic ability, end-to-end management and incredible analytics to deliver positive top line, bottom line and working capital targets.
Eric is a driven passionate leader who excels at respect of human capital through mentoring individuals career goals, complex relentless negotiations that are collaborative, and a strong 3-year strategic outlook for revenue management. Eric’s experience has taken him around the globe in various retail markets. His experience enables him to relate real life examples of what has worked for him, but also what he learned through coaching moments.
Ethan Sinick
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Category Management
Ethan Sinick
Associate
Felix Suarez
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish
Location: USA
- Negotiation
- Selling
Felix Suarez
Associate
Gary Black
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Gary Black
Associate
George Chiang 江玉行
Co-facilitator
Languages: Chinese
Location: China
- Negotiation
George Chiang 江玉行
Co-facilitator
New market entry
KA organization capability enhancement
Trade Marketing development
Distributor transformation and management
Sales force integration and sales management change
Retailer reformulation and JBP initiatives
George Chiang, an experienced consultant and trainer, has been conducting advisory project in Mongolia and Palestine, working with the client to streamline operational process and procedure, improve organization competitiveness , and finally optimize business performance
George started his career in Taiwan, had been working for a range of multinational companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China in the functions of Sales and Marketing such as Unilever Taiwan, Nestle Hong Kong/China, Kimberly Clark Taiwan, Kraft Taiwan, and AB Mauri China. Also, worked for Makro as Buying Director rolling out the project of store reformulation and business turnaround, negotiating better terms and conditions; renovating promotion activities, conducting category management and joint business plan project
George used to be a Distinguished Instructor to carry out trainings/workshops in China for the clients including Coca Cola, Pernod Ricard, Associated British Foods, Twin Lotus, Nongfu Spring, Sanquan and Synear Frozen Foods, Master Kong Instant Noodles, ExxonMobil, PACCAR….., helping the client to enhance employee’s skills and competencies and building the best business practices
In general, George has extensive experience and knowledge in Sales, Marketing, and Retail Buying at FMCG/Retail industry, specialized in marketing strategy, channel development, customer management, salesforce effectiveness, and business negotiation
Glyn Billinghurst
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Glyn Billinghurst
Associate
Business turnaround, change management, project management, team building and operational performance
Glyn is an experienced executive level professional whose commercial, managerial, operational capabilities and insight have been shaped by working with Multinational Organisations such as Walkers, PepsiCo, Unilever, Shoes for Crews and Munster Rugby.
At PepsiCo Glyn managed the leading operators in the UK Wholesale and Grocery channel, and led the Convenience channel team, concluding his tenure as Country Manager for the Island-of-Ireland. Working with Sales, Trade Marketing, Marketing Insights and Category Development delivering plans through all key stakeholders and channels.
In the last 9 years Glyn worked for Shoes for Crews LLC as Senior Vice President International and Managing Director for the European business. Glyn transformed the European business implemented a revenue management strategy, re-structured the commercial team, changed the route to market and introduced capability programmes all with a constant focus on execution and an enhanced customer experience. Glyn also established the Shoes for Crews strategy for the APAC region, entered the Australian market and re-purposed the business in the Canadian market. Glyn’s professional passion lies in delivering positive results and accelerated growth through the development of leaders, teams and organisations he works with. Glyn has a proven track record in business turnaround, change management, project management, team building and operational performance improvement. Glyn is currently completing a MSc in Personal and Management Coaching, writing a thesis on “An exploration of how coaching impacts the adaptability of teams”
Heiko Stuhr
Managing Partner, DACH
Languages: German, Italian, English
Location: Germany
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Heiko Stuhr
Managing Partner, DACH
Heiko has more than 25 years of experience in the FMCG, Cosmetics, DIY and Pharmacy market. He worked for the Beiersdorf AG in different leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, Trade Marketing and as Supply Chain Director before he started to work as consultant and joined TNG recently as Associate.
His passion is setting up sustainable profitable growth strategies and their transformation into cross-functional organisations with structured implementation plans.
Out of his broad experience he is fast in identifying and networking strengths along the entire "value chain", "end to end" from supplier to consumer.
Heiko is an visionary leader with high empathy and is acting very solution and target oriented. His comprehensive cross functional experience allows him to support teams to deliver outstanding and realizable solutions.
Heiko graduate in Business Administration and graduate in Social Economics.
Ian Brooks
Consulting Director
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Ian Brooks
Consulting Director
Ian has enjoyed a career in consumer goods selling, marketing and retailing of over 30 years with Kraft Foods, Mondelez, United Biscuits, Kohler Mira and Aldi.
He is a skilled negotiator whose extensive, senior commercial experience includes managing cross-category teams, extensive brand management and creating outstanding B2B relationships.
Ian has extensive experience of trade terms structure redesign and implementation across all sectors of the UK retailing industry.
Known for his passion to build transformational and sustainable customer/partner relationships, Ian loves to lead by example combining this with a passion to develop others. Ian has a direct/ ‘say it how it is’ style and he also embraces and acts on feedback.
James Morton
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Location: France
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
James Morton
- Transforming Organisational & Team Capability
- Trade Terms Strategy and Cost Price Negotiations
- Revenue Growth Management
- Strategic Business Planning
James has 28 years experience in FMCG, CPG & Health & Wellness including board level, his past roles include MD Nelsons Southern Europe then UK/ROW, Head of Commercial at Nicoventures and General Manager Homebaking at Kerry Foods .
He previously held various commercial and operational roles at Pernod Ricard, Mondelez and Unilever.
Fluent in French and proficient in Spanish, James has a proven track record of helping businesses from global category leaders to local start ups identify growth opportunities across the UK & EU, building strategy-led business plans and leading cross functional team capability development and collaboration to execute and deliver those plans.
James has great knowledge of branded and own label categories, omnichannel business planning and execution, and understanding of both supplier and retailer issues which he has leveraged to help many businesses strengthen their P&Ls and balance sheets, launch into new categories and markets, plus step change their revenue growth management capability.
James’s particular expertise with TNG lies in Trade Terms and Cost Price Strategy and Negotiation, Business Planning, Revenue Growth Management and Organizational Transformation.
James uses his general management and commercial knowledge and experience to challenge current ways of thinking.
He particularly believes in and enjoys developing a team’s capability and confidence to deliver sustainable business growth.
James Pearson
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
James Pearson
Negotiation Strategy
Convenience & Impulse Customers
Building Collaborative Relationships
Mentoring, Coaching
James has significant experience across FMCG, Lottery and Foodservice where past roles include Trading Director, Head of Retail Sales & National Accounts and Sales Director. His experience ranges from leading large commercial teams through to driving organizational transformation as well as negotiating and building long term customer relationships. He has a track record of driving growth across multiple sectors.
A qualified coach through the International Coach Federation, as well as a practitioner of NLP. Prior to joining TNG, James worked at National Provident Institution, Mars, Camelot and Brakes working closely with customers in Grocery, Convenience, Discount, Hospitality and Independents.
James has a collaborative and approachable style and likes to build long lasting partnerships, drive strong results and bring the best out of those he works with. He will bring both a supplier and customer perspective to the table, to maximize the value that can be created for clients.
Jeff Lemon
Managing Partner, APAC
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Jeff Lemon
Managing Partner, APAC
Jeff brings over 20 years of commercial experience in Australia and Asia. Jeff’s excellent background in FMCG, Consumer brands, Sports Administration and Negotiation Training services, brings a proven, structured, and collaborative approach to developing team capability and negotiation strategy to manage the full commercial conversation.
During his 13 years at Diageo, he has worked in most markets across Asia, supporting supplier brands develop their "go to market strategy" to secure their objectives with distributors, On Premise and retail customers.
Jeff has built a team of approachable experts, with significant APAC market experience in building capability in commercial teams and creating value through; negotiation, selling, account planning, category & channel strategy and RGM.
Jeff’s leadership is approachable and authentic, with a focus on empowering others, he has successfully delivered multimarket projects across APAC. With a diverse career negotiating commercial deals as a buyer and seller, he naturally looks at both sides of the deal to create value.
Jo Murray
Global Account Director
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Jo Murray
Global Account Director
Jo has 15 years commercial experience, most recently as UK & Ireland country manager for Clif Bar Europe. She brings extensive knowledge of customers and channels Europe wide including sports retail, health wholesalers, club and e-commerce. Her creative approach to account management led to several supplier awards.
Jo is a firm believer in coaching for success, and holds an ILM diploma in coaching and mentoring, as well as experience in personality profiling tools such as DISC and TILT. She has an open, collaborative and inclusive style and loves to challenge multi-functional teams to deliver on their objectives.
Jon Stokes
Associate
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Jon Stokes
Associate
Working with the world’s biggest CPG/FMCG brands (Nestle and Coca-Cola) and the largest Australian retailers for almost 20 years, Jon brings strong commercial skills to the TNG Team and our clients. His broad career experience has involved senior roles across National Accounts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Category and Shopper Strategy, Commercial Finance, Field Sales and Supply Chain. This career journey gives him an expert understanding of the full value chain for both brands and customers.
Jon’s contributions to industry thought leadership have also been recognised through the Australian Food and Grocery Councils Trading Partner Forum Scholarship and speaking appointments with the Global Consumer Goods Forum.
As a consultant with TNG, Jon has worked with many of our largest clients across Oceania, Asia and the Middle East sharing his passion for commercial problem solving through capability development and coaching. With mounting pressure on the margins of brands and retailers alike, his focus areas are Revenue Growth Management, Negotiation and Joint Business Planning. In 2023, more than ever before, these 3 disciplines are crucial for brands to both retain shoppers and partner successfully with retailers to achieve sustainable profit growth despite the volatility in our markets.
Jon Studdert-Kennedy
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
Jon Studdert-Kennedy
Associate
Commercial strategy and capability
Terms, pricing and complex negotiation across Brands and Retailer Private Labels.
Jon has 30 years’ broad experience in senior commercial roles, working with leading brands and retailer private labels.
In 21 years at Mars UK, he held a variety of commercial management and senior leadership positions in all of Mars’ core categories.
Jon’s commercial and leadership capabilities were shaped fundamentally during his time with Mars, and he benefitted from attending a vast range of world-class training and development programmes, including leadership courses at the London Business School.
From 2019 to 2023, Jon was Commercial Director for the UK snack foods business unit at Valeo Foods, leading the UK & International commercial functions, including Sales, Marketing, Category, Shopper, and Innovation.
A member of the UK Executive Team, Jon was accountable for the full commercial P&L and several significant, complex change programmes, including the integration and merging of three separate business units.
Across a variety of executive and large-team leadership roles, Jon has developed a keen curiosity, empathy, and deep experience of the unique requirements of senior leaders and executive teams in harnessing pressure and change to deliver effective commercial strategies and organisational transformation.
Jonathan Wen 文 天 祿
Associate
Languages: Chinese
Location: Taiwan
- Negotiation
Jonathan Wen 文 天 祿
Associate
Commercial strategy and operational plan development
Business Development
Over 30 years experience industry primarily in Taiwan & SE China. Executive roles in both off & on premise.
Worked for international drinks organizations (Moet-Hennessy/Diageo) & also in the private sector (Burn Stewart) with a consistent record of success
Participated in the building of major brands in Taiwan & China Hennessy Johnnie Walker and Scotish Leader.
Demonstrated strong team leader skills & have proven distribution management experience
Kevin Cole
Consulting Director
Languages: English
Location: Canada
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
- Selling
Kevin Cole
Consulting Director
Organisation transformation - solving complex problems
Revenue management and P&L optimisation
Strategic channel & customer segmentation
Kevin has 24 years experience in CPG and is an experienced Executive that has led multifunctional teams locally, regionally and globally to accelerate sales and exceed profit objectives. Kevin’s past roles span all ‘Go-to-Market’ functions and include leadership roles at GSK CH (now Haleon), FERRERO, MARS Petcare Canada as Vice President and most recently President and CEO of STEM Animal Health.
Kevin has a proven track record of helping businesses and teams define problems, identify growth opportunities, develop strategic plans and drive multi-functional collaboration to execute those plans to exceed growth and profit objectives.
An approachable expert, Kevin has great knowledge of consumer/shopper insights, category management, channel and customer management which he leverages to help many teams step change their capability and performance
Lynne Gordon
Associate
Languages: English
Location: South Africa
- Selling
Lynne Gordon
Associate
Lynne is a commercial marketer with over 20 years experience leading brands and businesses. She loves a challenge, driven to answer tough sales & marketing questions that unlock sustainable sources of new demand. Her strength lies in finding growth rooted in new solutions for humans – whether consumers, shoppers, partners, stakeholders or employees.
Lynne has diverse experience across FMCG, telco and consulting. She started her career at P&G, leading marketing teams in South Africa and across the CEEMEA region. She then went on to set up commercial marketing teams in 7 African markets for Nokia, helping build Africa’s top brand in Kenya, launch first-email services on the continent, and manage portfolio and go-to-market for 20 markets in MEA. 4 years as Africa CEO for a tech start-up and 7 years at Kantar Consulting leveraged her skills in creating and transforming organisations, driving category growth solutions, and winning with clients.
Lynne is passionate about strategic solutions that really work in action. She thrives on finding transformational potential for business, and then working with your own teams in the trenches to turn that insight into action to drive growth.
Lynne Hashinsky
Associate
Languages: English
Location: Canada
- Negotiation
- Selling
Lynne Hashinsky
Associate
Complex customer terms negotiations
Broker management, contracts and training
Acquisitions and Integration
Lynn is a seasoned professional with over 25 years experience in the Consumer Goods industry, having held sales leadership roles at Mars and Nestle Canada as well as mission led organizations such as Seventh Generation and Clif Bar.
Her extensive background has endowed her with deep Route to Market expertise across various classes of trade, including distributors and natural channel.
As the Country Manager for Amyris International, Lynn had end to end accountability, navigating complex business landscapes and negotiations.
Leading Sales for Nestle Health Science broker managed brands, Lynn fostered cross functional collaboration and alignment as acquisitions were integrated into the business.
Lynn is an approachable expert with an ability to relate to all organizational levels. She thrives on challenging norms with a collaborative spirit, aiming to extract the best from teams while sharing valuable business insights to optimize performance and embed learning.
Marco Rossi
Consulting Director
Languages: English, French, Italian
Location: UK
- Revenue Management
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Selling
Marco Rossi
Consulting Director
Marco is an entrepreneurial business leader with a strong expertise in commercial, retail and customer excellence, gained in over 25 years with leading Multinationals, SME’s, Distributors and Retailers, covering General Management and Leadership roles in Mars, Nestle, L’Oréal and Barilla.
A highly skilled negotiator, with a wealth of international experience including global customer negotiation, retailer and CPD business units, category management , business transformation and operational excellence, across a range of sectors and regions.
Marco has a natural ability to quickly understand people and cultures, with a strength of conviction and clear vision, which allows him to always get the best out of individuals and motivate teams. Results driven, insightful, creative and passionate about people, he is able to naturally lead and motivate people to deliver excellence results, whilst keeping an air of calm and confidence in all circumstances.
Margarida Rodrigues
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Location: Portugal
- Selling
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
Margarida Rodrigues
Associate
Margarida has 25 years of experience in FMCG market, both in retail and industry.
With a large experience at multinational environment, she has developed solid expertise in sales and negotiation and strong leadership and coaching competencies.
Margarida started her career at Auchan Group, where she performed different roles, both in operations and as a buyer, being accountable for the business plan, sales strategy development and national & international agreements negotiation with suppliers.
In 2001, she joined PepsiCo, having performed different roles - National Account Manager, Trade Marketing Manager and then Sales Director.
Margarida currently coordinates a post-graduate course in Sales Management at IPAM University where she is also a guest lecturer in Negotiation.
Since March 2016, she operates as a Coach and People Development Consultant.
Maricela Flores
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish
Location: Mexico
- Negotiation
- Selling
Maricela Flores
Associate
Retail Management (Convenience & Wholesales), Procurement, Commercial Capabilities, Negotiation Skills, Commercial Enablement
Maricela is a professional with more than 15 years of commercial experience developed across different Latin American markets such as México, Colombia and Argentina.
Her experience working through CPG and retail gives her understanding of both supplier and retailer matter which she has leveraged to use as an approachable expert, using her commercial knowledge in order to pass it through as a capability enhancer.
Working together, she would encourage teams to take a multiperspective way of thinking in order to transform proposals into actionable win-win solutions.
Marek Sheridan
Director, Middle East
Languages: English
Location: UK, UAE
- Route to Market
Marek Sheridan
Director, Middle East
Stakeholder relationship management
Strategic solutions
Group alignment
Marek has worked in the Gulf markets for over 30 years covering Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain as well as overseeing businesses in East African markets.
He has worked for global organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company and Saatchi Saatchi as well as local private organizations and most recently as Group CEO and Board Member of a publicly listed company in Bahrain. With a career that started in marketing and communications evolving through commercial operations and people management, he can be considered an authority across FMCG, beverages and hospitality industries and has significant experience across retail and F+B.
Marek is a collaborative leader and team player who urges everyone to take responsibility for making a difference. His natural curiosity challenges all as to how can we do this better, how can we exceed expectations. He excels in relationship management striving to understand key motivators and concerns across all parties and ultimately providing solutions that all have contributed to and are therefore fully aligned in delivering.
Mark MacDonald
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Mark MacDonald
Associate
Mark has worked in Consumer Goods for 30 years covering Sales and Marketing at local, regional and global levels for Unilever.
He has worked across the globe in over 40 countries and has a wealth of international experience in developing, selling and negotiating Revenue Management programmes such as trading terms restructures, price changes and promotional frameworks. He also has vast experience in Distributor Management in emerging markets. Marks focus for the last few years of his career with Unilever was strategy development and converting it into repeatable models and capability programmes so that behaviour change and business impact could be achieved by employees.
Mark is an approachable expert who uses his experience to show people the art of the possible. He is encouraging and supportive with the ability to challenge people to strive for that bit extra. He shares many real world examples of the good and the bad he has done, and seen over his career, and uses them to drive key learning points.
Martin John
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Procurement
Martin John
Associate
Ethical influence and persuasion
Negotiation capability
Martin brings 26 years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain, having worked with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies, including Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Rexam Packaging, and British American Tobacco.
During his corporate career, Martin held senior leadership positions such as Head of Indirect Procurement, Commercial Manager for Research & Development, and Global Category Manager.
He built a reputation for leading complex, high-stakes supplier negotiations, often in consolidated markets, where securing business value can be most challenging. His experience extends globally, working across multiple geographies and cultures.
In addition to his corporate experience, Martin is a Certified Ethical Influence Coach from the renowned Cialdini Institute, enabling him to leverage the science of ethical influence in both negotiations and teaching. He’s also a published author on the topic.
As an instructor on LinkedIn Learning, with five highly rated Procurement courses taken by many thousands of learners globally, Martin has established himself as a trusted voice in the field.
His engaging, warm, and interactive approach ensures delegates are fully immersed in the learning experience, making concepts accessible and practical.
Marwa Abdelrahman
Associate
Languages: English, Arabic, French
Location: Middle East
- Negotiation
Marwa Abdelrahman
Associate
Strategic Partnership Development
Sales Strategy & Revenue Management
Stakeholder relationship management
Contract negotiations
Distributor Management
Marwa Abdelrahman, a seasoned marketing & commercial professional with 20 years of experience, brings her expertise to the role of a TNG associate consultant.
Throughout her career, Marwa held pivotal positions at Unilever, overseeing global iconic brands such as Dove, Vaseline, Ponds, Lux, Rexona, and Axe across Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, and Russia. Her strategic & business acumen contributed to a strong track record of profitable category growth and in-market leadership.
As an Independent Consultant and Kantar Retail Affiliate, Marwa provided strategic consultancy services to diverse industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, luxury beauty, apparel, and technology. Her strategic thinking and commercial experience guided clients toward integrated solutions that drive business success. This breadth of exposure allows her to offer holistic perspectives to TNG’s clients, ensuring comprehensive and effective negotiation strategies.
Recently, Marwa assumed the role of Head of Marketing at SunRice (Middle East & Europe). She led the establishment of the regional marketing department, overseeing strategy, branding, data analytics innovation development, media, digital implementation, and distributor management. Her adept navigation of supplier-retailer dynamics bridges shopper and retailer perspectives, creating compelling solutions and enhancing revenue management capabilities.
Marwa’s expertise spans stakeholder engagement, P&L and revenue management, talent development, cross-functional capabilities, and growth and expansion strategy. Known for her versatility, creative thinking, and passion for customers, she is well-equipped to help clients drive transformational growth in today’s digital world.
Massimo Parravicini
Associate
Languages: English, Italian
Location: Italy
- Negotiation
- Selling
Massimo Parravicini
Associate
Massimo is a business trainer with extensive sales and marketing experience. Starting out as a sales rep while still a student, he then joined Unilever as a marketing trainee. He worked in various sales and marketing roles in Italy, UK and Europe for over twenty years.
Since 2010 Massimo is a sales consultant and trainer with a focus on consumer product goods, pharmaceuticals and retail. He has developed and run training courses for key clients in a variety of disciplines such as sales excellence, negotiation, key account management, customer business planning, sales and operations planning, visual merchandising, category management, shopper marketing, on shelf availability, in store execution, finance for non finance managers, team building, leadership and coaching, presentation and facilitation skills.
Massimo published A Guide to Sales Management with Business Expert Press in 2015.
Patrick Pech
Associate
Languages: French, English
Location: France
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Patrick Pech
Associate
Business Alignment
Sales Organization Transformation
Route To Market
Negotiation
Patrick is an Engineer by education, but has moved early in his career to Fast Moving Consumer Goods. He worked for 20 years within the Coca-Cola system both on the Company side for 6 years and on the bottling side in Africa and South East Asia for 14 years.
After his first role as technical director, he moved to sales as Route-To-Market specialist in Asia within the Coca-Cola system. Later he took senior leadership role as Managing Director in Sri Lanka, Kenya and Indonesia.
After 20 years with Coca-Cola, Patrick decided to share his knowledge back to France his home country by investing time and money in different projects. The most recent one being the start up of a Cognac/Gin/Whisky company focusing on producing exclusive local and organic spirits.
He is fluent in French and English and is currently based in France.
Patrick has acquired an excellent knowledge of Route-To-Market Development, Shopper and Channel Strategies, Distributor Management as well as Franchise Model.
As an avid sportsperson and experienced leader, Patrick is passionate about capability development and coaching. He applies these methods in both business and sports.
He believes that great Business Performance is primarily the result of an excellent understanding of people and that the key to success is to put the right people in the right seat. Most importantly for him, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Pascal Hermant
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish
Location: Spain
- Negotiation
- Selling
Pascal Hermant
Associate
Pascal has worked in Consumer Goods and has done business with more than 40 countries on 4 continents, in a range of local and global sales and marketing leadership roles in Reckitt Benckiser and Danone.
He speaks 4 languages and has lived in several countries like Belgium, France and Spain currently.
Pascal has extensive experience in helping different businesses develop and implement sales acceleration plans, always with the aim of nurturing talent by developing and deploying sales capabilities.
Pascal is an expert in sales force, key account, category, distributor and revenue management.
His philosophy is simple, aligning strategy and execution delivers a disproportionately positive impact on topline growth, and relies on developing a strong performance culture and foster team commitment and responsibility.
Peter McSorley
Associate
Languages: English
Location: USA
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
Peter McSorley
Associate
Retail Team design
Regional and Global Initiative Launches
Strategic Revenue,
Category Channel Leader
Peter is an accomplished 20+ year professional in the FMCG industry; most recently holding the position of Vice President – Procter & Gamble North America.
Over his career, Peter has led critical businesses within global and regional category roles, and leading several of P&G’s fastest growing retailers across multiple channels of trade. Peter’s career included several roles within P&G’s Market Strategy and Planning organization including leading the North America expansion of new brands including Febreze and Swiffer into the Canadian market, and the US Sales Leader for Tide - P&G’s largest US business. Eventually, Peter was appointed Global Sales Leader for Pampers – P&G’s largest Global brand.
In addition to Category planning roles, Peter held numerous successful customer facing roles at the Category and Team Leader levels including Walmart, Dollar Channel, and Grocery (both National and Regional). Peter drove breakthrough P&L results through a focused go-to-market approach of team design, skill development, account penetration, strategic alignment, and relentless focus on execution through multi-year joint business plans.
Peter is a creative and passionate industry expert with industry expertise spanning retail channels, and across a broad array of product categories including Health Care (OTC), Laundry and Cleaning, Beauty Care, Paper, Baby Care, and Pet Care.
Peter currently resides in Boise, Idaho.
Pietro Gulì
Associate
Languages: Italian, English
Location: Italy
- Negotiation
- Selling
Pietro Gulì
Associate
Major Customers Negotiation
Develop Commercial Capabilities
Trade Mktg and Portfolio Strategy
He has gained significant experience in Sales and Trade Marketing, holding senior positions in FMCG Multinational Companies such as Procter & Gamble, The Bolton Group and Coca-Cola Hellenic. After graduating and obtaining a Master's degree in International Relations, he began his career at Procter & Gamble where he remained for 10 years holding roles in Sales, Trade Marketing and was also responsible for the launch of an international project on Training & Development for the Sales Department. He then served as Sales Director in the Bolton Group for the Consumer Health Division and ended his corporate career at Coca-Cola Hellenic from 2005 to the end of 2021.
Since 2022 he has been working as a consultant collaborating with numerous Italian and foreign companies. He also works as a Business Trainer with a focus on the FMCG and Pharmaceutical Markets. The focus on the development of Commercial Skills has always been a priority and, in particular, in the 17 years spent in Coca-Cola Hellenic in addition to a significant experience in Customer Mgmt with the responsibility of the main national customers and creating the Multifunctional Teams for the entire CCHBC Group, he has also held the role of Commercial Capability Development Mgr.
He follows Mentorship and Coaching projects.
Ralph Ballard
Director of Practice, Head of Quality
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
Ralph Ballard
Director of Practice, Head of Quality
Richard Coker
Head of Advisory, APAC
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
- Route to Market
Richard Coker
Head of Advisory, APAC
Rich brings over 20+years of Commercial Sales Leadership experience in Consumer Goods. His passion for sales was born at Unilever and L’Oreal in the UK where he worked within Shopper market research, Category Management and Account Management roles across leading UK retailers. His commercial experience with Hasbro Asia Pacific leading National Field sales teams and heading up Grocery /Mass Merchant and distributors, then as Channel Director across the UK and EU helped to develop long lasting commercial relationships whilst managing customer price and terms harmonisation across retailers within Europe.
Rich’s family ties led him back to Sydney as Head of National Sales role at British American Tobacco leading high performing teams across a $6bn business and successfully navigating high stake pricing and terms negotiations across Grocery, Independent and convenience channels.
Rich then established a Sales Consulting business working across FMCG, Hardware, Construction and VR/ AI tech start-ups prior to working with Total Negotiation Group where he supports clients to win the commercial conversation through CPI, Trade terms, Joint Business Planning and RGM levers.
Rich has an engaging and approachable style with a proven success in challenging different thinking and solving client’s problems. He is passionate about helping to drive high performing teams for his clients who often consider them a part of their business!
Rob Brindley
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Category Management
- Selling
Rob Brindley
Associate
Category Management
Trade & Channel Strategies
Selling
Global Retail
Rob has spent over 20 years working across FMCG & Retail all around the world and has lived & held roles in Europe, USA & SE Asia. He has excellent experience of leading retail and consumer packaged goods companies in their efforts to become more capable, strategically focused and customer oriented.
He began his career as a graduate at Tesco where he learned the fundamentals of retail marketing, loyalty data, category management, negotiation, merchandising and supplier management. These experiences and understanding made Rob excel in his time in FMCG. He is passionate about developing capability in-both people, planning, process and organizations. . He successfully led Multi-Functional selling teams and has personal selling experience across leading grocery & convenience retailers in the UK & USA.
Rob also has significant retail experience having held leadership positions at Audi UK & Boots the Chemist. He recently joined Total Negotiation after living in Chicago, USA where he developed his skill for consultancy with many North American & European businesses small and large working on Category projects, Joint Business Planning and Market Strategy.
Robert Jan Werkhoven
Associate
Languages: Dutch, English
Location: Netherlands/Benelux
- Negotiation
Robert Jan Werkhoven
Associate
Customer Collaboration & Negotiation
Route to Market/Route to consumer
Field Sales & Customer Marketing
Capability building
Robert Jan has 25 years of experience within the FMCG industry. He has grown his career in Diageo, covering several roles in the main commercial areas of Field Sales Management, Key Account Management and Customer Marketing.
He has also built his experience in Learning & Development whilst he was heading up a commercial capability faculty for Europe & Africa.
Robert Jan has been in different leadership roles over the past years, as a Commercial Director and as Commercial Transformation director, he has successfully steered the teams through dynamic business environments, consistently delivering growing results
He is recognized for his outstanding negotiation skills, which have played a pivotal role in creating successful partnerships with wholesalers, key accounts and distributors all driving joint value to the businesses.
In summary, Robert Jan is an energized facilitator and coach, leveraging the experiences and examples he picked up on the way, striving to grow individuals, groups and businesses
Roberta Parollo
Associate
Languages: English, Italian
Location: Italy
- Category Management
Roberta Parollo
Associate
Brand Positioning and Re-positioning
Branding for small enterprises
New Concept development
Traditional Retail
Restaurant Marketing
Roberta is a senior consultant with 25+ years in marketing and brand communication industries. She has started her marketing carrier in P&G for 10 years and Coty for 5 years. Then worked in Italian and international advertising agencies for the last 10 years as a strategic director.
While developing her marketing career, Roberta has cultivated her passion for training marketers and senior students with her professional competences: in the last 20 years she has delivered more than 5000 hours of lectures between executive trainings in multinational companies, II level University Masters, as well as University undergraduate education. She has trained global marketing teams of global companies such as Lavazza, Campari, Barilla, Bolton Group.
Expert in subjects spanning from Marketing innovation in FMCG and services, Brand Positioning, Branding for small enterprises, Marketing planning, Communication strategies, Marketing Made in Italy, Consumer Insights and Marketing KPIs, she is also a specialist of Restaurant and Retail Marketing.
She wrote several books on Consultancy for small enterprises, Restaurant marketing, Hotel and Tourism marketing and Traditional Retail marketing.
Since 2020 she is a professional publicist.
She is a student of History of Art at Pisa University.
Roberta currently resides in Milan, Italy.
Rubén Valdes Garcia
Associate
Languages: Spanish, English
Location: Spain
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
Rubén Valdes Garcia
Associate
Consultant specialised in Revenue Management with comprehensive operating experience in the Commercial area of FMCG.
Relevant Commercial operating background, acquired during 16 years at PEPSICO, includes KAM. , Trade Mktg., Category Mgmt. in the Spanish Snacks Market Unit & Revenue Management in the European Division . Rubén supports clients in their efforts to consistently drive profitable revenue growth by working with them in improving their Price, Promo, Mix and Trade Terms strategies & plans.
He also helps them to develop the necessary organisational capabilities for their commercial teams to become proficient in managing the top line of the P&L with a RM mindset. Taylor made, flexible & practical approach to consultancy, adapted to the client’s business priorities as well as their specific revenue optimisation opportunities & RM capabilities.
Rubén has a BA focused background with a BBA/MBA from ESADE, Spain & a MBA from WHARTON, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Sam Mead
Associate
Languages: English
Location: ASIAPAC
- Selling
- Negotiation
Sam Mead
Associate
Learning and Development Specialist, Culture and Leadership Coaching, Business Transformation, Negotiation Strategy and Capability Development. Strategic Planning and Facilitation
Sarah Lewis
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Sarah Lewis
Associate
Sarah has over 25 years of experience in general management, sales and business transformation including senior leadership roles with diverse and complex global organisations including Diageo, Akzonobel and Mars.
She has hands-on experience of building and delivering commercial transformation programmes in multiple geographies and across a variety of sectors, markets and regulatory environments. Partnering with teams to define compelling outcomes; creating value generating solutions and ensuring those solutions are can be brilliantly executed are what you can expect from Sarah.
Recognised for her ability to make complex things simple, she combines her commercial and negotiation expertise with her professional coaching skills to create the conditions for everyone to realise breakthroughs in personal and business performance.
Scott McBeath
Director of Consulting - RGM
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Revenue Management
Scott McBeath
Director of Consulting - RGM
Revenue Management
Commercial Planning
Advanced Analytics
With over two decades of commercial experience in the FMCG sector, Scott has cultivated a deep understanding of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) through roles at industry leaders such as Unilever, Nielsen, L’Oreal, Reckitt Benckiser and Heineken. His career highlights include pivotal engagements at Unilever, where he led transformative efforts to enhance promotional capabilities, delivering impactful results across diverse markets and teams.
Scott's professional journey spans a spectrum of roles, from hands-on experiences in category management and key account management to strategic leadership positions in advanced analytics, consulting, and customer strategy. This diverse background equips him with a comprehensive perspective to devise and implement robust commercial growth strategies tailored to meet the evolving demands of competitive markets.
With a blend of creative thinking and analytical prowess, Scott excels in navigating complex business landscapes, identifying opportunities, and translating them into actionable plans that yield tangible outcomes. Committed to driving value for both customers and businesses, he is dedicated to delivering transformative results in dynamic and challenging environments.
Shaun Ardern
Partner, DACH
Languages: English, German
Location: Germany
- Negotiation
- Selling
Shaun Ardern
Partner, DACH
Shaun has 35 years of experience in the FMCG, Cosmetics, Stationery and Pharmacy markets. He worked for 25 years at Beiersdorf AG in various leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, Trade Marketing and Supply Chain before gaining 10 years of experience in consultancy. He recently joined TNG as an Associate Director.
Shaun has led consulting projects across many categories and channels, covering a wide range of commercial topics, including Company & Sales Strategy, Organisational Development & Capability building and Route to Market. Shaun is British and fluent in German.
Shaun is an empathetic leader with a passion to support customers in their commercial growth with a pragmatic and practical approach, helping transformation within organisations. His comprehensive cross-functional experience allows him to support teams to deliver outstanding and sustainable solutions.
Shaun is a graduate in Business Administration and a qualified business trainer and coach.
Simon Negus
Associate
Languages: English
Location: UK
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Simon Negus
Associate
Simon has nearly 30 years of commercial experience, mainly within FMCG. He started his career at Mars Confectionery in a variety of sales roles before moving into senior roles at United Biscuits. He has worked both in the UK and Ireland, and has also worked extensively on growing International businesses and across Europe.
He joined the Total Negotiation Group as an Associate Consultant when the business was formed, and mixes his time between running capability workshops and hands on consulting to help clients overcome commercial challenges. He has a lot of experience of helping to deliver Cost Price Increases, Trade Terms and Revenue Management projects.
His approach is very pragmatic, helped by the fact that he is still very much operating in the “real world” through his work outside of TNG.
Sigmar Werz
Associate
Languages: German, English
Location: Germany
- Selling
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
Sigmar Werz
Associate
Digital-/ eCommerce - Strategy,
Digital Transformation
General Management, Marketing, Sales (e.g. Route-to-Market & Channel Strategy, Travel Retail)
Stone Huang
Associate
Languages: English, Chinese
Location: Taiwan
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
Stone Huang
Associate
Stone is a proven commercial expert with over 30 years sales and business development experience across Greater China region. He has been a facilitator for TNG for circa 8 years and prior to this he held senior management and commercial roles with leading FMCG players, including: Account Director (CTM) at Diageo GTME Greater China, National Sales Director at Maxxium China and Country Manager at Allied Domecq (PR) Taiwan.
He has vast commercial experience across Greater China markets during a career with Maxxium, Allied Domecq (PR), Diageo and Riche Monde. He specialises in Negotiation, Route-to-Market (RTM) management, strategy, sales capability enhancement and operational execution.
Stone has the passion to work with his clients to build a robust commercial team. He is supportive and encourages others to expand on their opinion. He excels in identifying the issues and then provides the recommendation by best utilising his own wealth of experience across Greater China markets.
Teresa Derubeis
Associate
Languages: English, French
Location: Canada
- Negotiation
- Selling
Teresa Derubeis
Associate
Thorsten Siebers
Associate
Languages: English, German
Location: Germany
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Thorsten Siebers
Associate
Thorsten always transports his positive power while sharing his experience of 22 years in operational retail as well as on the FMCG production side. Sales, procurement, supply chain optimisation and company controlling are his operational skills to bring in.
After 10 years as International Buying Director and Head of Purchasing Controlling at a leading discount chain he jumped to the other side of the desk to sculpture sales strategies and arrange negotiation boot-camps for leading brands. A mixture of line management roles and consulting projects makes him a down to earth guide through every situation.
His international experience in Asia, US, Europe and Middle East formed his flexibility to adopt to different cultures and business conditions.
Thorsten will give you a view on things from various perspectives. Far away from standard carbon copy knowledge he is always individualising the results and the possible paths to perfect solutions. And he additionally leaves enough space for your own notions to find the perfect merge of great ideas.
Tijs Dujardin
Associate
Languages: English, Dutch
Location: Netherlands
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Tijs Dujardin
Associate
Tijs has over 12 years of experience working as a consultant across a wide range of sectors, clients and geographies. His main area of expertise is the creation of category growth strategies and turning these strategies into real-life (shopper) activations that actually find their way to the trade.
Tijs is an inspiring business professional who’s highly respected for his strategic, though pragmatic thinking. His motto is that complexity doesn’t sell hence why he always aims to turn complexity into easy-to-understand strategies that will land with both new starters as well as C-level stakeholders.
Before joining Kantar Consulting, Tijs spent 5 years with Proctor and Gamble in various Marketing & Shopper roles. He’s fluent in English and Dutch.
Office team
No results for the selected criteria