Title: Global Marketing Director in Innovation, Beam Suntory
Date: November 14, 2017

Kevin Burke is the Global Marketing Director in Innovation at Beam Suntory, the world's third largest premium spirits company.  Previously, he was the Global Brand Director at the Coca-Cola company who led strategy, expansion, and innovation on the Glaceau vitaminwater, Glaceau smartwater and Aquarius businesses.  While in Batch 5, Kevin led a corporate team from Coke through the Flashpoint process that identified unmet consumer needs and insights which lead to the creation of 9 innovative product ideas for the Coca-Cola Global innovation pipeline - some of which are in market today around the world.