Tanya Domier served as CEO of Advantage Solutions from January 2013 through March 2022.
She joined Advantage Solutions in 1990, quickly rising through the company’s ranks, holding a variety of executive-level positions in sales, marketing and operations. In 2000, she led the formation of the award-winning marketing division, Advantage Marketing Partners. As president and chief operating officer, a position she held from 2010 until assuming her CEO role, Domier developed a strategic plan that continues to foster a performance-driven culture that emphasizes the importance of proactively adding value and delivering results for clients and customers.
During her tenure as CEO, Domier led the development of a suite of digital technology solutions to help brands and retailers as they address the challenges they face in today’s omnichannel world. She also led the company’s growth as an international presence offering integrated outsourced solutions to multinational clients, providing them with a single strategic partner and best practices across 40 countries.
In October 2020, she guided Advantage as it became a public company trading on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol “ADV.”
Domier is a member of the board of directors of Yum! Brands Inc.
Dave Peacock was named Advantage Solutions CEO in January 2023. His 30-plus-year career in the consumer packaged goods and retail industry includes four years as president and chief operating officer of Schnuck Markets, Inc., and two decades at Anheuser-Busch, where he served three years as the company’s president.
Prior to joining Advantage, Peacock was chief operating officer and on the board of directors of Continental Grain Company, a global investor, owner and operator of companies across the food and agribusiness spectrum. Previously, he was a member of the board of advisors for, and was the founder and chairman of, Vitaligent, LLC, a multi-unit restaurant franchise.
He is a member of the board of directors of Stifel Financial Corp. and past member of the board of directors of Wayne-Sanderson Farms and Post Holdings Partnership Corporation. He also served on the board of trustees of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis and the board of directors of Pink Ribbon Girls.
Brian Stevens shares executive leadership responsibility for the Advantage Sales organization and SAS Retail Services divisions. In addition, he has global oversight of Advantage’s finance and accounting department, including financial reporting, budgeting, treasury, payroll, tax, mergers and acquisitions and customer service.
Stevens previously served as vice president of finance at Multi-Fineline Electronix Inc., where he provided global oversight for the finance, accounting and IT departments and helped lead a successful initial public offering in 2004. Stevens spent seven years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in a variety of roles.
Dean Kaye is responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting, including financial business support, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, accounting, audit, tax, payroll and treasury.
Since joining Advantage in 2004, Kaye has held leadership roles in finance and business operations, including vice president of client services and business operations within the marketing segment. He is certified by the California Board of Accountancy with a CPA and earned his Chartered Management Accountant designation in the United Kingdom prior to relocating to the United States.
Pamela Morris-Thornton leads all aspects of Advantage Solutions’ human resources function.
She previously spent 15 years at Panera Bread, including serving as the head of diversity, equity and inclusion and leading Panera’s talent acquisition, executive recruiting and the HR business partner practice. Earlier in her career, Morris-Thornton served in human resources leadership roles at the Metropolitan St. Louis Transit Agency and Graybar.
Kelli Hammersmith leads all aspects of Advantage Solutions’ corporate narrative, including internal, external and executive communications.
Previously she led global executive and internal communications at Northern Trust. Earlier in her career, Hammersmith held communications leadership roles at Kohl’s and Molson Coors Beverage Company. She began her career as a journalist, reporting for television stations in Peoria, Illinois, and Milwaukee, where she also served as a bilingual reporter.
Bryce Robinson is responsible for oversight of Advantage Solutions’ legal department, providing counsel regarding a wide variety of business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, international joint ventures, private equity transactions, compliance, corporate governance and commercial contracts.
Robinson’s career includes in-house and external counsel roles. Prior to joining Advantage, he was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at InSight Health, a healthcare services company.
Michael Taylor leads Advantage Solutions’ global retailer-focused businesses and teams, including Daymon, SAS Retail Services, retailer experiential marketing services, shopper marketing agency Promopoint and The Data Council, a content creation and syndication agency.
Taylor, who previously served as president of Daymon, also leads Advantage’s Customer Collaboration Center of Excellence.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions spanning retail, business management and business development. Taylor began his career with PepsiCo Inc.
Andrea Young leads Advantage Sales, Advantage Unified Commerce, Waypoint and R2 Solutions and has global oversight of Club Demonstration Services.
She previously served as co-president, Advantage Customer Experience, directing the vision, strategy and growth of the division’s global portfolio of retailer-centric experiential marketing businesses. Prior to joining Advantage in 2011 as senior vice president, experiential marketing, Young served in senior sales, operations and business integration roles at multiple agencies within Omnicom Group.
Young is a founding member of the Advantage Diversity, Equity & Inclusion board.
Michael Harris is charged with shaping and executing Advantage Solutions’ evolution as a data-directed commerce solutions provider.
Harris leads Advantage Intelligence and a select group of digital, consumer, foodservice and experiential marketing agencies, including Adlucent, AMP Agency, Halverson, Marlin Network, Upshot, and Sunflower Group. He also oversees Advantage’s innovation initiatives and enterprise communications.
Before joining Advantage in 2015, Harris worked within marketing agencies on two continents, including Interpublic’s Marketing Drive/Match Marketing Group in Connecticut and London-based BBL Marketing Communications, which he founded.
Alex Kelleher leads Advantage Intelligence, Advantage Solutions’ portfolio of technology- and data-driven solutions, which include software and services that pull together data and decisioning across the entire product journey from supply chain to consumer to drive manufacturers’ and retailers’ commercial success.
Kelleher came to Advantage in 2022 after serving as global chief marketing officer at Deloitte Digital. Earlier in his career, he founded four companies in the data and decisioning space, including AI ad platform Cognitive Match and Touch Clarity, a machine-learning optimization and analytics platform, which was acquired by Omniture (now Adobe).
Victor Lee leads the commerce marketing division of Advantage Solutions. He is responsible for accelerating the agency’s omnichannel, digital commerce, media, and data and analytics strategies, services and solutions.
Lee’s career has focused on building brand-loyal global audiences; transforming legacy-based organizations into digital-first companies; driving category-leading sales programs; developing agile, analytic mindsets; and redefining creative and media-buying processes.
He previously served as chief marketing officer at Kin Insurance and RXBAR, where he was responsible for leading all marketing, communications, commercialization, shopper, media, product development and consumer insights. Earlier in his career he served as senior vice president, digital marketing at Hasbro and senior vice president, marketing at Digitas.
Corey Weiner is CEO and founder of Jun Group, an advertising technology company that was acquired by Advantage Solutions in 2018. Today, he leads the enterprise’s Media and Technology group, which combines the advertising technology, sampling and machine learning capabilities of Jun Group, Brandshare and Strong Analytics, and is focused on growing Advantage’s technology-led businesses through organic growth and by sourcing and completing mergers and acquisitions.
Weiner also provides guidance for enterprise-wide sales and automation efforts.
Dan Dougherty leads the Waypoint, Marlin Network agencies and CSSI culinary and marketing agency, plus the Advantage Military and Advantage Sales convenience store teams.
Before joining Waypoint, Dougherty owned and operated Omaha, Nebraska-based Dougherty Brokerage, one of the industry-leading regional foodservice sales agencies that came together to form Waypoint in January 2012.
He serves as the executive sponsor of Advantage’s Hope and Opportunity = Latinx Ambition (HOLA) employee resource group and has played a critical role in creating a dynamic and collaborative Waypoint workplace culture that highly values team members, clients and customers and creates consistent growth.
President, Global Business Operations, Club Demonstration Services
Amy Lang leads CDS, Costco’s preferred event marketing provider, whose team members deliver food sampling, product demonstrations and merchandising services that enhance the Costco member experience and drive sales in warehouses in 12 countries.
Lang joined Advantage after 16 years at Staples, where she had leadership roles across sales operations, store operations, human resources, marketing and strategy and played a key role in transforming the retail business following the company’s private equity purchase.
Michael Mish leads Advantage Solutions’ Integrated Agency Group, which includes AMP Agency and Upshot marketing agencies and Halverson Group consumer research and strategy consultancy.
He is a founding member of the Advantage Diversity, Equity & Inclusion board and serves as a DE&I board ambassador for Advantage’s Hope and Opportunity = Latinx Ambition (HOLA) employee resource group.
