Meet The Team

Gerardo Mazzeo
Global Innovation Director
Gerardo heads up the HENRi team, leading our efforts to connect Nestlé stakeholders with innovators and start-ups. In doing so, he hopes to create partnerships that can enhance lives and contribute to a better future.
He has worked at Nestlé in commercial and marketing roles for twenty years, covering categories from pet care and frozen food to confectionery.
Since September 2012 he has led Nestlé’s global innovation activities, helping find new and innovative ways to solve challenges across the business.

Mark Brodeur
VP Digital Marketing Innovation
Mark has over 20 years’ global management experience in Brand Marketing, Sustainability and CSR and now leads a team responsible for engaging the best and brightest start-ups in Silicon Valley and other innovation hotspots around the world.
At HENRi, he'll use his Silicon Valley Innovation Outpost experience to drive a more effective and rapid “outside in” approach to innovation, using his network of tech partners and start-up contacts to connect Nestlé with innovative solutions.

Goran Kukic
VP IT Innovation
Goran leads Nestle’s global Digital Consumer Innovation efforts from the technology perspective, finding innovation partners, start-ups and established tech partners.
His current focus is on novel digital technologies, focusing principally on Digital Marketing and e-Commerce, especially through IoT, voice and AR/VR technologies.

Josh Baillon
Sr. Digital Innovation Manager
Josh comes from a 15-year background in technology consulting, with a focus on enterprise architecture, systems integration, and mobile computing.
Driven by a passion to innovate, Josh is an entrepreneur at heart, and even created an internet-based animation start-up along the way.
At HENRi, Josh will be supporting internal teams and selected startups to help bring pilots to life, at the intersection of marketing and technology.