Colleen has been growing businesses for 20+ years at retailers and brands by being the collaborator between and providing strategic direction and leadership to Merchandising & Marketing teams. Her passion is leveraging category management principles coupled with consumer insights to create innovative and effective strategies.

Colleen Martin is Chief Revenue Officer at Caddle Inc., the largest daily and monthly active panel in the Canadian marketplace whose mobile-first insights platform rewards Canadians for sharing data and engaging with brands.

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.

Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.