Speakers

John McLoughlin currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Advantage Group International (AGI). Advantage Group is the leading research benchmarking and advisory business focused on creating more productive working relationships with retailers and their suppliers. John is a trusted advisor to Advantage clients with a distinguished career spanning over 30 years working with blue-chip consumer goods manufacturers and retailers. John is passionate about helping clients achieve mutually successful commercial outcomes with their supplier partners and believes wholeheartedly in a philosophy of pragmatic collaboration between retailers and suppliers.   

As the former Chief Executive Officer of Advantage Group International (AGI), he successfully led the company through a period of monumental transformation and expansion. Advantage data is used by over 1000 of the world's leading manufacturers and retailers to understand their relative performance and drive better outcomes with their business partners. Advantage is now positioned as the leading advisor in business-to-business engagement solutions globally.   

Before becoming CEO, he launched and provided strategic leadership as the Executive and Managing Director for Advantage’s operations in China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. This followed John's leading the Advantage Australia business since 2006.   

John holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.