Retail Solutions Expands Executive Ranks as Big-Data Company Gears
Up For More Growth
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail
Solutions Inc., the leading provider of retail-data technology for
the consumer-products industry, has hired several new executives to
deepen its product, data and marketing functions. The fast-growing,
Silicon Valley company helps makers of consumer goods and retailers
to work collaboratively to gain new insights around inventory
management, product promotions and customer demand to significantly
boost product sales.
The new hires include Chief Marketing Officer Marie Amoruso Jackson, a 12-year marketing
veteran at Apple Inc. who was most recently a senior vice-president
at LiveOps, and General Manager for Business Development &
Innovation Michael Quinn. Quinn previously worked in key
brand-management roles at PepsiCo and later helped build
digital-media start-ups, including VuCast Media and Premier Retail
Networks. PRN was acquired by Thomson SA in 2005.
Steve Antos is RSi's new chief
scientist. Antos worked early in his career at Bell Labs, where he
built the first call-detail, transaction-based data mining function
for AT&T Consumer Services. Later, while a senior vice
president at analytics and consulting firm SymphonyIRI Group, he
developed the industry's first data-analytic capabilities for
retail consumer loyalty data. At RSi, he will expand the current
data-analysis efforts and create new applications for marketing and
sales.
"I'm a data geek," said Antos, who holds a Ph.D. in quantitative
human behavioral analysis from the University
of Illinois, where he also was an assistant professor. "I'm
all about anything that creates real value from data analysis. And
nobody else in the consumer-goods market is doing the type of
real-time work RSi is doing."
Antos, Jackson and Quinn "are all top-notch thinkers and
execution experts who have worked at the intersection of retail and
consumer products, and all of them will help RSi create deeper and
better applications for customers as data becomes more and more
central in defining the retailing experience," said RSi Chairman
and Chief Executive Jonathan
Golovin. "I am thrilled to have them all on board and am
already excited about their contributions."
RSi has experienced rapid revenue growth over the last three
years and was recently named, for the third year in a row, to the
Inc. 500|5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing private
companies. The company this year expanded its footprint in
Europe with new offices in the UK,
Germany and Russia, and it will soon begin doing business
in Mexico.
About Retail Solutions
Retail Solutions is the leading provider of technology that helps
consumer-product companies derive value from retailer data. The
company's comprehensive suite of software-as-a-service solutions
gives manufacturers up-to-the-minute product and demand visibility
from the warehouse to the store shelf to the shopper, leading to
increased sales and better inventory management. Retail Solutions'
platform is trusted by more than 500 global companies including 3M,
Abbott, Bausch & Lomb, Bayer, Colgate-Palmolive, Clorox,
Heineken, H-P, Kraft, Nestle, Novartis, Procter & Gamble,
Schering-Plough and Unilever. For more information, visit
www.retailsolutions.com.
CONTACT:
Rebecca Buckman
The Buckman Group / for Retail Solutions
becky@thebuckmangroup.com
650-703-0364
SOURCE Retail Solutions Inc.