Amy is a Principal in the Strategos Chicago office. She brings with her over 18 years as an experienced marketer, with specific expertise in the consumer packaged goods industry. Throughout her career, she has had a passion for innovation and new product development, as well as a love for helping companies create ideas that can translate into revenue generating and industry changing opportunities.

Most recently as a senior team member of The Energy Infuser, a Chicago-based boutique consulting firm specializing in leveraging consumer research, Amy helped uncover business changing ideas for many Fortune 500 clients in industries such as food, pharmaceutical and health & beauty, including The Quaker Oats Company, Kraft Foods, Unilever and Novartis. In particular, Amy was responsible for writing and finalizing the majority of the recommendations for their clients. Additionally, Amy often took the lead to explore and summarize relevant and emerging trends and their potential affect on the business and the specific project at hand. Amy began her career at Kraft Foods where she worked for almost 10 years, including several years in brand management working on some of America's favorite brands. She then took her love of ideas, consumer insights and marketing to the advertising industry where she worked in Account Management.

Amy holds an M.B.A from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Business and has a double major B.S. Degree from Purdue University in Dietetics and Food & Nutrition in Business. She is also a Registered Dietitian.