Eric Togneri

Eric Togneri is currently serving as Director of Sales Planning at Chattem, a wholly-owned consumer healthcare division of the sanofi-aventis Group. He leads a newly created trade marketing department charged with trade strategy development and implementation for Categories/Brands across all Customers (Food, Drug, Mass, Club, Value Discounters, Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Kroger, Rite Aid, Safeway), as well as driving growth strategies for key Customers across all Brands (Allegra, ACT, Gold Bond, Cortizone-10, Unisom, Icy Hot). Key responsibilities include department head for Shopper Marketing, Trade Investment and Trade Planning and Promotion.

Eric Togneri is also a Principal and Strategic Advisor for CPG CatNet, the premier Association for Category Strategy Professionals. CPG CatNet has members spanning hundreds of retail, manufacturing, educational, consulting and solution providing organizations with a vested interest in the CPG industry.

Eric Togneri is the founder of NERI Capital Partners where he leads a firm specializing in mergers & acquisitions and related activities. Eric maintains strong relationships across the private equity community with his team regularly performing buy-side targeted acquisition search activity. Eric has also advised on numerous sell-side transactions across multiple industries.