Contributors
Brian Brinkmann
Brian Brinkmann is the Chief Product & Marketing Officer at Agilence, the leading loss prevention and operational analytics provider for retailers, grocers, and restaurants. Brinkmann is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience bringing analytics, data mining, machine learning, and AI products to market to improve business and organizational performance.
Jessica Bryant
Jessica Bryant is Vice President and Restaurants Head of Operations, NCR Voyix. Jessica leads NCR Voyix's restaurant technology portfolio, including building a deep understanding of customer needs and requirements.
Kevin Bryla
Kevin Bryla is the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Customer Experience for SpotOn, a leading software and payment company providing the technology and support that helps local businesses—and the people who run them—to succeed on their own terms.
Melissa Calvert
Melissa Calvert is currently working as a Business Management Analyst at Crowd Writer. A self-proclaimed foodie, Melissa likes to eat out every weekend. She enjoys dynamic food trends and shares her journey as a food blogger through her blogs online with a network of like-minded audiences.
Mark Calvillo
Mark Calvillo is the Senior Vice President of Product, driving overall product strategy and leading the product management and user experience teams. Mark is a strategic product management and innovation professional with entrepreneurial skills and 20+ years of technology and product leadership experience over both web and mobile. He is skilled in managing the full product life cycle (conception to consumer) by collaborating with customers, technical teams and executives. He holds a degree in Information Technology from Chapman University.
Laura Camerer
Laura Camerer is Senior Manager of Culinary, Supply Chain & Facilities at Protein Bar & Kitchen, the leading better-for-you, fast casual restaurant brand. With extensive experience in menu development and supply chain optimization, she specializes in creating innovative, health-conscious dining solutions that don't compromise on flavor.
Graham Campbell
Graham Campbell, COO of Givex, a global cloud-based operations management solution designed to streamline business efficiencies and generate valuable and actionable customer data with offices in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Brazil, Singapore and newly opened in Mexico City. Campbell is an innovative technology executive with over 13 years of experience in the payment, e-commerce and point of sale sectors. He started at Givex in March 2006 and since then has held positions including: VP of Projects & Implementations, VP and General Manager of Givex’s point-of-sale (POS), Senior VP of Product Development and now holds the position of the company’s Chief Operating Officer.
Cherryh Cansler
Cherryh Cansler is VP of Events for Networld Media Group and publisher of FastCasual.com. She has been covering the restaurant industry since 2012. Her byline has appeared in Forbes, The Kansas City Star and American Fitness magazine, among many others.
Ezra Carmel
Ezra Carmel is a Content Writer at Placer.ai and enjoys sharing new location intelligence insights with industry professionals. You can find his analyses on everything from buffets to the Super Bowl at https://www.placer.ai/blog.
Todd Carney
Todd is a judicial law clerk at the United States Bankruptcy Clerk for the Northern District of Texas. He is originally from Chicago and a graduate of American University and Harvard Law School.
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Mo Chaar
Since joining Givex in 2007, Mo Chaar has helped the company expand its North American footprint. He began his tenure as a Business Development Manager before becoming Vice President of Sales for North America, and then moved to his current role of Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Chaar oversees commercial strategy and development worldwide as well as managing the sales teams within North America. His experience in gift card, loyalty and POS has played a pivotal role in the success of some of Givex’s largest partners.
Misty Chalk
Misty Chalk is the vice president of sales, Americas, at BrightSign, the global market leader powering the digital signage industry. She brings two decades of technology experience, helping both small and large organizations define their unique digital signage journey to meet the changing needs of consumers.
Corey Chao
Corey Chao is the Director of Product Management for HungerRush. He and his team are fanatical in keeping up with the latest trends and technology that affect the restaurant industry.Bob Chapa
For over 25 years, Bob Chapa has been in the branding and signage world... what started as a local powerhouse sign company in Metro Detroit eventually developed into one of the largest National Branding & Signage providers in North America. With a keen eye for design, a knack for business development and a deeply rooted fascination with technology, Bob is proud to be a leader in the Business Branding space.
Jessica Chapman
Jessica Chapman has been working as a writing editor in Procter & Gamble in Chicago for 2 years.She’s been working as a freelance editor for 5 years. She specializes in such topics as health, marketing and tech.
Jessie Chen
Amanda Vandiver leads product and content marketing at Radar, the leading geofencing platform. She previously spearheaded product marketing efforts at Branch, where she worked closely with enterprise brands on their mobile strategy and moderated panel discussions with industry experts across North America.
Tal Clark
Tal Clark is the CEO of Instant Financial, the fintech company modernizing payments and earned wage access for employees. With over 30 years of experience in financial services, payments, and payroll innovation, Tal has led transformative initiatives at companies like First Data (now Fiserv) and was part of the founding team of Money Network, the first platform to introduce electronic pay solutions for all employees. As a former U.S. Marine Corps Captain and helicopter pilot, Tal holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BS from Mississippi State University.
Thibaud Clement
Thibaud Clément is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Loomly. Since graduating from both Grenoble Ecole de Management, France and the University of Ottawa, Canada back in 2011, Clement has worked with his wife and business partner, Noemie, launching four successful businesses.
A self-taught programmer, Thibaud began building software to make Noemie’s job easier in 2015. Back then, the pair was managing a marketing agency and developed an in-house solution to streamline the process of creating and sharing editorial calendars with their clients. Encouraged by early feedback from their own customers and peers about their prototype, Thibaud and Noemie decided to make it available to other marketing teams: Loomly was born.
Along with devising the overall company strategy and vision, Thibaud actively leads all product development efforts.
