Survey and Analysis: The Tesla Cybertruck

In November of last year, Tesla announced the release of the Cybertruck, the company’s all-electric pickup truck and the automaker’s sixth vehicle since its founding. The truck’s reception was initially lukewarm with critics describing it as “Blade Runner-esque” and “pointy” with a stainless-steel exterior and a triangular roof. Nonetheless, Tesla is a luxury brand, associated […]

Where’s the Beef? The Future of Alternative Meat Products

The market for alternative meat products is large, growing, and becoming more complex. Because the products are sold directly as well as through the food service channel – which is very opaque – it’s hard to arrive at a precise figure for the market’s current size. I’d put it at about $1.2 billion, and easily […]

Winners in the Race to Electric Vehicles

Until eight years ago, auto makers saw electric cars as an expensive way to meet efficiency requirements. Then, Tesla introduced high-performance, high-priced electric cars and everything changed. Today, electric vehicles (EVs) are seen as both green and hot, utilitarian and cool. That, of course, has encouraged market growth and introduced new challenges for car and […]

Uber and Lyft: How Driver Incentives Drive Retention

Until the day that autonomous cars are feasible, Uber and Lyft need drivers. And while drivers are the biggest cost center for these companies, they are not necessarily loyal to any single company. Most drivers work for the company who pays the most at any given time. To that end, Uber and Lyft should carefully […]

UberEats vs. Grubhub vs. DoorDash: The Battle for Online Food Delivery

There’s still plenty of room for growth in the online food delivery market for Uber Eats, GrubHub, and current leader DoorDash, along with numerous smaller competitors. It’s easy to forget, but outside of tier one markets like New York, Chicago, and L.A., there are huge portions of the country that remain unfamiliar with online ordering. […]

FedEx: Outlook Post-Amazon Relationship

No company in the world spends more on shipping than Amazon. Last year, it spent more than $27 billion to deliver goods to its customers. Yet, Amazon accounts for approximately 10% of UPS© business and for FedEx© it accounts for less than 2%. As Amazon has moved to take over its own shipping business, these companies […]

A Scary Time for Retail

Today’s customers can travel across as many as eight digital devices and platforms in the process of buying a single product, and they want payments to be frictionless, trustworthy, and fast. How can major retailers add value to this journey and be in the right place, with the right data, when it’s time to check […]

The Importance of a Product and the Experience

Adam Kalamchi, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Bicycles, says, “It’s not that hard to make a product.” He discusses the evolution of manufacturing and the impact its had on his bicycle company. He always shares how important branding is to a product’s success. Adam Kalamchi is Founder and CEO of Brilliant Bicycles. Brilliant’s mission is […]

How to Stand Out in the Beauty Industry

Filmed at GLG London Between big, legacy brands and buzzworthy startups, the beauty industry has never been more competitive. With the five largest cosmetics companies accounting for half of the total market, smaller companies face an uphill battle. While a strong brand image is important, according to former L’Oréal executive Laurent Rioublanc, it’s not enough; […]

Motorcycle Industry Outlook

As baby boomers continue to get older, what will happen to the motorcycle industry’s key market? According to former Harley-Davidson Chief Marketing Officer Mark-Hans Richer, the answer is not much. Richer sees boomers as the “healthiest and wealthiest generation on the planet,” who, he believes, will not stop buying bikes anytime soon. Perhaps more surprising, […]

CPG Brands’ Tipping Point

“There are tectonic shifts happening in the consumer and retail space that [are] causing a tipping point to occur,” says global retail executive Craig Herkert. As overall sales of consumer packaged goods firms have declined in recent years, pioneering CPG startups and private label brands at discounted stores (e.g., Trader Joe’s) have seen tremendous success. […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.