Speakers

Maria is an experienced and accomplished CMO, growth leader and business integrator with a track record of successful commercial scaling. Maria has diverse sector experience including grocery retail, e-commerce, SaaS (retailtech, fintech) and credit but her passion is grocery retail. 

Over her 7 year career with SpartanNash, Maria helped hundreds of retailers adopt and execute sales-building digital marketing and scale merchandising programs. 

An experienced advisor and operating leader, Maria executed digital market expansion strategies for multi-billion-dollar retailers including Save Mart and Amazon. Maria scaled the Amazon nascent grocery business (then “Prime Now”) from 6 cities to 50 cities globally into a $1B incremental business in 24 months. 

Maria's passion for regional grocery retail brought her to LocalExpress. She loves helping retailers build sustainable transactions and market differentiation through enhanced and relevant shopper experiences.