Kate Ancketill
CEO and Founder of GDR; futurist for retail and hospitality
GDR Creative Intelligence is a London and New York based retail and hospitality trend and strategy consultancy, delivering the insight that unlocks and empowers innovation.
Kate founded GDR in 2000. She works with researchers, insight professionals and consultants to generate highly curated storylines on innovation within global retail and hospitality, with a short to medium term focus (2 - 7 years). Each presentation is unique. GDR is the trend partner to around 30 of the world’s largest consumer brands, so every presentation she gives contains ideas that have been stress-tested at the coal face, often at board level.Kate has spent 20 years helping to future proof retailers and brands, including P&G, LVMH, Macy’s, Hilton, IHG, Microsoft, Samsung and Lego.
She heads GDR's Board Advisory service, advising boards and executive teams on the new technologies and consumer behaviours which will impact physical and digital commerce.
She is the partner keynote speaker on trends for the world’s largest global retail membership organisation, the US-based National Retail Federation.