Investment Management Committee

Brian helps identify and evaluate investment opportunities and contributes to develop of strategy for our group and its portfolio companies. He is an leading industry expert with 30 years experience in the beverage and CPG, providing strategy, marketing and finance services for a wide range of companies, including start-up, small, mid-cap and some of the largest CPG and beverage corporations.

Brian is the CEO of S&D Insights, leading a group of highly diversified and accomplished professionals offering a suite of services around strategy, sales and distribution to the food and beverage industries to create sustainable success.

He was the Managing Partner of Beverage Marketing Corporation and BMC Strategic Associates. BMC’s strategic advisory services provides includes market and trend analysis, strategic planning, transaction advisory, market entry analysis and planning, sales/distribution (for beverage and snack food product lines), business modeling, and brand repositioning. BMC also provides the business marketing research and marketing services to meet client’s needs.

He is regularly quoted in the leading global business publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Forbes and The Economist.