Ramin Eivaz — Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing, Analytics & CRM at Bloomin' Brands

Mr. Ramin Eivaz has been Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing, Analytics & CRM at Bloomin' Brands, Inc., since January 8, 2018. Mr. Eivaz joins Bloomin' Brands from HSN where, he built a new digital analytics organization that helped transform the company from a national television shopping network to a state-of-the-art multi-channel retailer. He served as Chief Marketing Officer of Acosta, Inc. since October 2009. Mr. Eivaz joined Acosta in October 2009. He serves as the President of AMG Strategic Advisors. Mr. Eivaz began his career in San Francisco with Tri Valley Growers and held positions of increased responsibility with E&J Gallo Winery, PepsiCo and Kimberly Clark. Mr. Eivaz spent 6 years with PepsiCo, as Vice President of Business Intelligence and Consumer Insight with responsibility for developed and managed market intelligence, third-party data, industry-wide e-collaborationgovernance for the PepsiCo enterprise , analytics, shopper insight, category management, sales force training, and providing leadership and resource planning initiative. At Kimberly Clark, Mr. Eivaz served as the Vice President of Insight, Strategy & Growth for the $12 billion North Atlantic consumer division, where he was responsible for division wide insight generation, creation of advanced and differentiated insight capabilities, category management, development and integration of strategies, marketing services, creation and prioritization of growth agenda, development, launch of products and categories new to Kimberly Clark. Mr. Eivaz served as a Senior Vice President and Director of Insight & Innovation for Wachovia Corporation, where he was responsible for establishing industry-leading insight and innovation functions including consumer targeting, advanced analytics and modeling, and market/consumer research with the goal of propelling organic growth and attracting new customers. Mr. Eivaz holds a a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and an MBA from California State University.