SPINS bolsters insight leadership through three new presidents

3/20/2018
SPINS, a Chicago-based source in health and wellness retail intelligence, last week made a number of executive announcements, including the hiring of a new president retail applications, a new president of product library solutions and the promotion of a long-time SPINS veteran to president client growth solutions.

Timothy Alvis is joining SPINS as president of retail applications, where his chief focus will be to help retailers build and strengthen relationships with both their vendor partners and their shoppers through GroceryPress, a consumer engagement platform built for today's health and wellness marketplace, and other digital applications. Prior to joining SPINS, Alvis spent 18 years leading successful initiatives and driving products to market with Amazon and Microsoft.

"Timothy Alvis understands the new digital marketplace and the types of products and solutions that are necessary for retailers to compete," Tony Olson, SPINS CEO, said. "SPINS is excited to bring the wealth of knowledge Tim gained at Microsoft and Amazon to SPINS' retail and brand partners in order to grow a consumer base aligned with our mission to increase access to health and wellness products and to help them to live more vibrant lives."

Meanwhile, Irina Mazur joins SPINS as president product library solutions, where she will connect SPINS clients and partners to deeper insights unlocked by the company's proprietary market segmentation and product attribution. Her previous experience spans traditional retail, e-commerce, digital media, software development, product management and technical program management. Over 20 years, she has elevated solutions experiences with companies such as ShopperTrak Retail Traffic and Behavior Analytics, Tyco Retail and Mall Solutions, and Label Insight, where she was most recently chief product officer.

And Anubhav Goel has been elevated to president of client growth solutions, SPINS. In his prior executive vice president role, Goel led and grew SPINS’ Brand Growth Solutions, Consumer Insight Solutions and Financial Partners Group.

Brand Growth Solutions is a leading strategy consulting boutique for the Natural Products Industry, working with more than 100 of SPINS’ brand clients on sales and marketing growth strategies. Consumer Insight Solutions enables insights into the natural and organic consumer using the National Consumer Panel, concept testing and primary research solutions. And Goel’s newest division, SPINS’ Financial Partners Group, offers unique solutions to help investors find, analyze and invest in winning health and wellness brands.

Goel’s promotion empowers him to more nimbly drive transformative solutions and applications for SPINS’ clients and partners, with full authority over engineering, product development and commercialization in this area of SPINS’ business.

“Anu launched the Client Growth Solutions business three years ago with the mission to bring the best of SPINS to our clients and to help them grow in brand new ways,” Olson said. “Under his leadership, this team has worked with many of our clients – brands, investors, and retailers – who have all derived unique value from our exciting strategy consulting, consumer insights, and investment solutions. SPINS is proud to continue investing in customized solutions for our clients and partners through Anu’s promotion to president and more best-in-class capabilities from our Client Growth Solutions team.”

 
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