Symphony EYC Hires Americas and LatAm Leaders

Customer insights specialist Symphony EYC has appointed former dunnhumby execs Brian Gillis as General Manager, Americas, and Adriano Araujo as General Manager, Latin America, to help grow the market for the firm's Cloud Retail solutions across the regions.

These solutions combine market data with software, to provide retailers and FMCG companies with real-time and role-based intelligence. Based in Chicago, Gillis will oversee all of Symphony EYC operations throughout North America and Latin America. For the past six years, he has worked at Tesco data firm dunnhumby, most recently as SVP, General Manager - Americas. Prior to dunnhumby, he held a variety of category management and customer insights jobs at Loblaw Companies, Nielsen and General Mills.

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Araujo is responsible for developing the Symphony EYC customer base throughout Central and South America. He also joins from dunnhumby, where he served as General Manager/Director in Brazil for the past six years, before which, he worked for dunnhumby in the UK. Earlier, he was a consultant with MarketBridge and with Peppers & Rogers Group.

Web site: www.eyc.com .