In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Michelle Nadeau, Head of Marketing & Communications at Martie. Martie is transforming the surplus grocery market by connecting brands with excess inventory directly to consumers through a deal discovery platform that delivers savings of up to 70-80% off retail prices. Operating as a digital-first marketplace with over 4,000 brand partnerships and 1,500 active SKUs at any given time, Martie has solved a critical problem for CPG brands while preventing food waste and making premium products accessible to price-conscious consumers. Through AI-powered logistics, personalized customer experiences, and a no-subscription business model, Martie is carving out a distinct position in the grocery e-commerce landscape—not as a 15-minute delivery service, but as a deal discovery platform that makes shopping fun while saving customers money.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Ankit Patel, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Obvi. Obvi is disrupting the supplement industry by transforming collagen from a clinical product into a consumer lifestyle brand. Starting six years ago in a market dominated by medicinal-looking white and gray packaging, Obvi created a colorful, cereal-aisle-inspired brand that appealed to consumers who wanted premium supplements without the clinical feel. Through a combination of superior formulation (multi-source collagen with added ingredients), competitive pricing, bold branding, and community-driven marketing, Obvi has grown from a direct-to-consumer startup to a brand available in 20,000 retail doors nationwide, including Walmart, Sprouts, and Vitamin Shoppe.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Ryan Reese, Marketing Director at Mechanical One, a home repair and maintenance company serving Central Florida. Mechanical One launched their residential division in 2021 after establishing themselves in new construction, and Ryan was brought on to build their consumer-facing marketing from the ground up. In a hyper-competitive local services market where customer trust is paramount and competition is fierce, Ryan shares how they've differentiated through celebrity partnerships, hyper-local targeting, AI-powered customer data analysis, and an obsessive focus on customer experience that has generated over 2,500 five-star Google reviews.

In this episode, host Andres Figueira interviews Taras Rybak, Partner at Fusion Asset Management. Fusion operates in the UK wealth management sector with three complementary businesses: acquiring independent financial advisory firms, managing investment portfolios for private clients, and operating Justify Technology—a unified platform that consolidates the fragmented tech stack financial advisors use daily. Managing £2 billion in assets across 13 UK offices, Fusion is navigating the intersection of traditional relationship-driven financial services and emerging technology capabilities, including strategic implementations of AI and automation in a heavily regulated industry.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Mustafa Khanwala, Founder and CEO of MishiPay. MishiPay is transforming physical retail through a suite of checkout solutions that eliminate friction at the point of sale. From a simple frustration waiting 20 minutes to buy a Coke, Mustafa built a retail technology platform that now processes over $250 million in transactions annually across 2,000+ stores globally. What started as a scan-and-go mobile app has evolved into a comprehensive POS ecosystem serving major retailers across grocery, travel retail, fast fashion, and QSR sectors in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.

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In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Lisa Tan, Chief Marketing Officer at Reverie. Reverie is transforming the sleep technology market by repositioning adjustable bases and customizable mattresses from medical devices for the elderly into personalized wellness tools for health-conscious consumers. Over her 12-year journey from a "three-to-six month project" to CMO, Lisa has pioneered a direct-to-consumer strategy that emphasizes education over aspiration, turning sleep from a commodity purchase into a considered investment in longevity and performance.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Tien Ho, Head of Marketing at MOUZ, one of esports' oldest and most successful organizations. MOUZ is pioneering a radical shift in esports marketing by bringing a digital-first industry back to physical reality. While other esports organizations chase global audiences online, MOUZ is building a 22-year legacy brand through hyper-local community engagement, treating their Hamburg headquarters as both a performance facility and a marketing platform. With their team consistently ranking in the top 3-4 globally in Counter-Strike, Tien shares how they're converting the product of winning into sustainable fan loyalty while solving esports' biggest challenge: making parents believe this is a legitimate career path for their children.

In this episode of The Future of Consumer Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Filip Strömsten, Co-founder and COO of Chapter Two. Chapter Two is solving one of the music industry's most foundational problems: royalty data is completely broken. While catalog acquisitions from artists like Justin Bieber and Bob Dylan make headlines, the underlying infrastructure for understanding music earnings remains opaque and fragmented. Chapter Two is building the data infrastructure that will enable proper valuation of music catalogs, starting with a transaction platform that has already facilitated sales for legendary producers like Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston) and Bankabooom (Blackpink's main producer). By cleaning and standardizing earnings data across hundreds of different royalty statement formats, they're creating transparency in an industry where creators literally don't know where their money comes from.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres Figueira interviews Kimberly Kanary, a strategic marketing consultant at Kuno Creative with deep experience spanning CPG, retail, e-commerce, jewelry, and home improvement. Kimberly brings a unique perspective having navigated the full spectrum of marketing—from PR and crisis communications to advanced analytics and programmatic advertising. Her approach centers on the intersection of art and science in marketing, with an uncompromising focus on tying every marketing dollar to measurable business outcomes. Throughout the conversation, she shares specific tactical examples from her time at Signet Jewelers and reveals why she's betting heavily on programmatic advertising paired with CTV as the next frontier for performance marketing.

In this episode of The Future of Marketing, host Andres interviews Greta Mayr, Head of Marketing and Communications at GridX. GridX provides an energy management system that connects distributed energy resources—solar systems, batteries, EV chargers, and heat pumps—to optimize energy flows and reduce costs for end users. Operating in 15 European countries with over 180,000 connected assets, GridX works through a B2B2C model, partnering with major energy retailers like E.ON who white-label their technology. As pioneers in a nascent category, GridX has navigated the challenge of educating an entire market while scaling from 35 to over 200 employees in just a few years.