Kim Slater
Director of Consulting
Kim Slater is director of the consulting arm of Canadean, which over the last seven years has established itself as a highly effective specialist beverage consultancy having undertaken a wide range of confidential strategic and commercial projects for beverage companies and allied industries.
Kim has over 25 years experience in the beverage industry. Prior to Canadean Consulting, Kim worked at Guinness Brewing Worldwide where he was Strategic Brands Director. In this position he was responsible for portfolio development, consumer planning and for driving the growth of new products and innovation across the world. Before this he held a range of positions including Regional Marketing Director (Africa-Americas) and Project Director Acquisitions. As New Product Development Controller at Guinness Brewing he led the team that developed the widget and canned Draught Guinness.
Prior to Guinness, Kim Slater had seven years in marketing at Schweppes, where he worked on the core Schweppes brands, preceded by time at Procter & Gamble.