About Kevin

Kevin Ryan is a food and consumer strategist decoding the future of what we eat and why. As founder of Malachite, he helps the world’s top brands anticipate shifts in consumer behavior and rethink innovation from the ground up.

Short Bio

Kevin Ryan is the founder of Malachite Strategy and Research, an innovation consultancy trusted by top food, beverage, and retail brands. A former General Mills and Amazon strategist, Kevin now advises industry leaders on how to design for what's next, whether it’s decoding the GLP-1 consumer, tracking the rise of “frugal chic,” or mapping the future of packaged food. He also hosts a top food industry podcast and writes a widely read newsletter on food, culture, and strategy.

Long Bio

Kevin Ryan is founder/CEO of Malachite Strategy and Research, a CPG, retail and foodservice-focused insights and innovation agency. Kevin previously served as the Global Strategic Senior Planner at Amazon, overseeing the team responsible for corporate brand and advertising strategies for Global Prime and Non-Prime consumers.

Prior to Amazon, Kevin was Director of Strategy and Innovation at General Mills. For 15 years, Kevin led corporate and brand initiatives to discover new opportunities globally.

Kevin is an expert in the Front End of Innovation, specializing in deep ethnography, strategic mapping, consumer Jobs-to-be-Done development, design thinking, agile methodologies and new product ideation. Kevin holds both a master’s and PhD in Food Science and a MSc in food anthropology.

Kevin writes a food industry newsletter (FoodStuff) and also hosts a food industry podcast called 3 Squares.

Signature Topics

Kevin speaks, moderates, and writes about consumer and marketplace trends regarding the retail and foodservice industry. Sample topis include:

The Future of Food Innovation (and what most brands get wrong)

How GLP-1 Drugs Are Rewriting the Consumer Relationship with Food

What’s Next in Private Label Strategy

Fragmentation of Wellness in Food & Beverage

The Role of Technology and AI in the food industry

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