Bram Warshafsky

Founder at Shelfgram

Bram is Founder of Shelfgram, a tech company that enables brands and retailers with new insights to drive new growth. The platform provides increased in-store visibility and a suite of competitive intelligence tools to better understand how products look, perform and compete on the shelf. With Shelfgram, teams can find actionable shopper insights, monitor in-store promotions, and spot retail trends before they're trends.

Suzie Yorke

CEO & Co-Founder at The Better Chocolates

Suzie Yorke is a serial entrepreneur passionate about health, wellness, and bringing healthy foods and good fats back. After Seeing a gap in the marketplace and a huge opportunity to help others through food, Suzie developed Love Good Fats, a company that produces low-sugar foods loaded with good fats. After exceeding $100 million in gross revenues in a little over three years, Suzie launched her second startup in 2022 and co-founded The Better Chocolate. Passionate about community and giving back as well, Suzie also started Founders Helping Founders, a group dedicated to helping and mentoring new entrepreneurs with major focus on self-identified women. This initiative allowed her to share her experience and knowledge with others who had just begun their entrepreneurial journeys.

Sachi Kittur

Co-Founder at goCPG

Sachi's leadership journey has taken her down her own entrepreneurial path of launching 2 start-ups. Her most recent venture goCPG.ai brings revolutionary data-driven insights and solutions to accelerate the growth and profitability of emerging CPG brands. Sachi is a strategic People (HR) advisor specializing in growth and talent strategies for small to mid-sized companies. With over 20 years of experience, she drives exceptional results through people-centric leadership and transformation. Her expertise has consistently supported 8-10x revenue growth across the technology companies that she joined.

Juliana Casale

Founder at Balloon

Juliana is the founder of Balloon, a Toronto-based sparkling water brand that I launched in early 2024. She is having a blast figuring out how the CPG space works. Even if the brand flops, she is learning so much along the way. Juliana has 13+ years of experience working across a variety of marketing platforms with a focus on boosting site traffic organically, leading visitors down the sales funnel in a thoughtful way, creating optimized (but human-friendly) content, and maximizing retention opportunities through product marketing.

Marie Chevrier Schwartz

CEO in residence at TechTO, former Founder & CEO at Sampler

Marie Chevrier is the CEO of TechTO and a passionate advocate for founders and startups. As the former founder and CEO of Sampler, she led innovation in retail-tech, helping brands like L’Oreal and retailers like Kroger digitize product sampling. With over 4.5M consumers reached, Marie brings her experience in scaling startups to TechTO, aiming to elevate its impact within the Canadian tech ecosystem

Kelly Brawn

Director, Product Marketing at Roots

Kelly Brawn leads the product marketing team at Roots. With a decade of experience in brand strategy and communications for retail, Kelly has dedicated her focus to helping brands conduct market research and create go-to-market strategies for current and future initiatives. Before joining Roots, Kelly served as the VP Marketing at Sampler, an omnichannel digital sampling solution. There, she helped to develop and implement Sampler’s B2B2C brand voice through the creation and amplification of full-funnel customer journeys. She has played an integral role in helping win industry awards as well as secure press coverage from top publishers like TechCrunch and Ad Age. Prior to Sampler, Kelly led Marketing and Communications at luxury footwear brand TKEES.