Jessica Spence

Jessica is President of North America for Beam Suntory, one of the world’s leading spirits companies, where she leads the company’s commercial operations in Canada and the United States. Jessica started her career in the advertising world at J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett, and she has twenty-five years of consumer products experience across both commercial and brand-building roles. She has worked across the world in the beer industry with SABMiller and then Carlsberg, where her last role as Chief Commercial Officer was to spearhead the turnaround of the Carlsberg brand as well as drive the premiumisation of the overall portfolio. Most recently, she served as Beam Suntory’s first President of Brands, where she has led iconic brands such as Maker’s Mark, Jim Beam, Courvoisier, Bowmore and Laphroaig. Jessica resides in New York with her husband and their two beloved cats.