Cooler Company

Greg Wasson Co-Founder and Chairman Greg is the co-founder of Wasson Enterprise, a family-based investment firm that believes in the power of entrepreneurship. Greg is the former President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and currently serves as board member of Health Care Service Corporation, Performance Health Systems, Innovation Associates, Innventure, and is a former board member of Amerisource, Bergen Corporation, Verizon Communications Inc, and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Learn more

Arsen Avakian
Founder

Arsen is the founder and former CEO of Argo Tea. Over the last 15 years, Arsen built Argo Tea into one of the most respected CPG tea brands and the largest tea café chain globally. Prior to founding Argo Tea, Arsen led the business development and corporate ventures group of i2 Technologies, the pioneer and global leader in supply chain management software solutions.

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Glen Tullman Co-Founder and Vice Chairman Glen is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Livongo, and co-founder and Managing Partner of 7wire Ventures, a Chicago-based investment firm focused on healthcare and education. Glen has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, the leading global provider of Electronic Health Records, Practice Management and Electronic Prescribing systems, where he led its IPO and secondary offerings. Learn more

Eric Hsia Director Eric is interested in companies at the intersection of health and information technology, finance and technology, and consumer services. He supports TransLink’s portfolio companies to engage customers and partners in Asia and leads the firm’s investment activities in Israel. Active current lead investments include AiFi, aktiia, Epic!, Gamevice, Opsys Technologies, Sensifree, and Somnoware as well as active engagement with HZO. Noteworthy past TransLink investments include Misfit (ACQ: Fossil). Learn more

Ray Lane Director Ray is a technology executive and venture capitalist best known for leading the turnaround of Oracle Corporation in the 1990s. As Oracle’s President and COO, Ray re-established the company’s leadership in the database market and grew Oracle’s market cap by 65x to over $200 billion. After leaving Oracle, Ray became a Managing Partner with Kleiner Perkins for 14 years before becoming Partner Emeritus with the firm.

Matthew J. Shattock Director Since April 2019, Matthew Shattock serves as non-executive chairman of the board of Beam Suntory Inc., the world’s third-largest premium spirits company. He previously served as chairman and CEO of Beam Suntory, having joined Beam in March 2009 as president and CEO and led the company’s successful growth strategy transformation and subsequent integration of the Beam and Suntory spirits businesses following Beam’s acquisition by Suntory in 2014.

John Gomez
CEO

John Gomez has held senior executive positions with several world-class brands. Before joining Cooler Screens, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer at KKR-owned Cardenas Markets, where he led the effort to double the size of this $1B+ Hispanic food retailer. Prior to Cardenas Markets, John held the positions of EVP Operations, Marketing, and Merchandising at Trader Joe’s. He now rejoins Arsen, where he previously served as Argo Tea’s COO.

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Gayle deDie Senior VP of Marketing Gayle is a proven marketing leader with over 20 years of experience in marketing strategy, B2B and B2C omnichannel campaigns, business development, and go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining Cooler Screens, Gayle held various marketing, sales, and product strategy roles during her 13-year tenure at Google. Most recently, she was Head of Global Programs and Media and led Google Cloud’s integrated demand generation while also developing and championing Google Cloud’s external Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program. Learn more

Artem Lavrinovich Chief Data and Product Officer Artem is a senior executive with a track record of using data and science to gain and activate insights, resulting in a better experience for customers while generating economic value for retailers and brands. Most recently, Artem was a Director of Customer Engagement and Data Science at Amazon, focused on envisioning, developing, and scaling data science capabilities for Kindle/Books. Learn more

Andrew Appel Andrew is a successful and accomplished business leader, CEO, and trusted advisor to numerous executives across multiple industries. With over twenty-five years of management experience, he is known for a deep transformational business acumen, aligning senior teams and organizations on strategies and key initiatives, creating impactful strategic and operational plans, executing complex M&A transactions, developing strong internal and external communications, and for building followership of global cross-functional teams to deliver significant value and transformation.

Bill Bosway William T. Bosway is President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director, of Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROCK). Mr. Bosway has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Dover Corporation\’s Refrigeration & Food Equipment segment since June 2016, following a 26-year career at Emerson Electric.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world\’s leading privacy experts. She is currently the Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre and is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University. Until June 2019, Dr. Cavoukian was the Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University.

Andy Hill Andy is a successful and accomplished senior executive with over 27 years of experience working in the field of data and advanced analytics to drive growth with some of the world’s leading retailers and FCMG companies. Andy is a proven leader and recognized in the global data space, selected by Data IQ in 2022 as #1 most influential person in Data, as well as a Data Visionary. Today Andy serves as the Chief Data Officer at Unilever, with responsibility for the global data, advanced analytics (AI) and information agenda at Unilever spanning the full enterprise.

Mark Ibbotson Over the course of his career, Mark has held several senior executive positions in Omni channel retail, most recently as the EVP of Realty and Central Operations at Walmart. To each role, Mark has brought clearly defined objectives and goals, which, with a well-defined strategy and innovation, all teams have delivered results before taking on new challenges. Mark’s approach can be condensed to two core values; ensuring the continual growth of the company and managing the development of a constructive cohesive working environment that allows employees to excel through disruption and change

Don Kingsborough Don has more than 30 years of technology leadership and innovation success with expertise in the retail industry. His past roles include VP of Retail and Prepaid Products at PayPay, Inc. Don pioneered the gift card industry and founded Blackhawk Network which became the definitive leader in sales of prepaid card products. He also founded and served as CEO of toy manufacturer Worlds of Wonder, Inc. Previously, Don also served as the President of Consumer Products at Atari where he led the introduction of Nintendo to America growing sales from zero to more than $2 billion in four years.

Rishad Tobaccowala Rishad Tobaccowala is a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe where he has spent his entire 37 career, most recently serving as the Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist of the Groupe. Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators”. He is in the Ad Age Interactive Hall of Fame and has received a lifetime achievement silver medal award from the Chicago Ad Federation.