Our Team
Kimberly Egan
CEO / Principal
As CEO and principal, Kimberly Egan brings not only her two decades of experience, but a passion for food, an uncanny skill for creative facilitation that focuses on strategy, and a keen insight into the modern consumer. Combined with her irrepressible energy -- Kimberly ensures that the CCD teams deliver against their clients overall business goals.
"Our role is to provide the a-haa's! to our clients in ways that help them innovate and expand their product portfolios." Since joining CCD in 1993 Kimberly has done just that for dozens of world-renowned food and beverage companies.
"Our innovation engine runs on the Power of TasteSM, and that has been the key to our success. Wharf Research, our consumer-research arm, helps us zero in on consumers' up-to-the-minute food fixations, while our Chefs' Council® gives us a head’s up on the trends taking shape in the kitchens of creative chefs nationwide."
Kimberly's ability to harness and decipher information to provide discriminating direction for brand equity expansion, product platform positioning, and foresight into culinary and consumer trends is truly her gift -- as is her infectious laugh during debriefs!