Strategic Food Retail founder Marc de Speville has over 20 years experience of the global supermarket industry at a strategic level as a highly rated equity analyst, including ten years as Partner of food retail research at Redburn, the leading independent European stockbroker. He has published cutting-edge thought pieces on the future of the industry and has been invited to talk at major industry conferences such as Shoptalk/Grocerytalk, the Consumer Goods Forum, FMI and the World Retail Congress. 

Marc combines truly innovative, out-of-the-box thinking with rigorous financial analytics and a passionate presentation style that enables him to win people over at all levels. He is well aware of the natural resistance to change within organisations and the different methods that can be used to successfully overcome such inertia. At the same time, he remains determinedly ignorant of what is "just not possible."