Following his masters at Cambridge, Andy took the short trip down to London joining a boutique econometrics consultancy. He followed this with a leadership role in Kantar on M&S and JSainsbury. Andy then jumped client side with sales and category roles in Unilever, innocent, Little Dish before returning to Unilever and most recently with Smartbox Groupe. Andy has managed PPA & innovation projects from conception to execution across ambient, fresh, non food and frozen categories. His experience on all major retail fascias in Europe enables him to take on the task of leading the Retail and FMCG verticals for EPIC and hopefully bringing some valuable insights during the conference. Andy is a proud father of two children, slave to two dogs and keen sportsman having represented Ireland in rugby on 23 occasions at junior levels.