Jason English

Jason English is currently the General Manager of Nomad Foods.

Jason is also the Founder and President of South Street Advisers where he consults with CEOs and CFOs, primarily in the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. He has advised on M&A and business transformation initiatives as well as Investor Relation practices. Prior to launching his own firm Mr. English spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs. He began his career at Goldman in 2010 covering the Packaged Food sector before expanding his coverage to encompass the Household and Personal Care sector (HPC) in 2012. In 2016 he was promoted to Managing Director and in 2018 he was elevated to be the Consumer-Retail Business Unit Leader where, in addition to maintaining his core coverage responsibilities of the Packaged Food and HPC sectors, he assumed a broader managerial oversight role of the business unit which encompasses retail, restaurants, gaming, leisure and lodging sectors.

Mr. English began his Wall Street career at Bear Stearns in the Spring of 2007 as a junior analyst on the Packaged Food team. His team was one of the few lifted out and into J.P. Morgan in the subsequent acquisition. He became the top internal salesforce ranked junior analyst at J.P. Morgan and was promoted to Vice President in 2010 before being recruited away to Goldman.

Mr. English spent nearly a decade working within the CPG industry in roles of increasing responsibility within the marketing/Brand Management organizations of Campbell Soup (in its Pepperidge Farm division), InBev US, Atkins Nutrition and Kellogg prior to pursuing a career on Wall Street. At InBev he played an integral role in turning around the Rolling Rock brand before being promoted to Brand Manager of the Dos Equis and Sol brands. And at Kellogg Mr. English began his career as the Brand Manager heading up the firm’s frozen innovation efforts before being promoted to the Sr. Brand Manager on what was at the time the company’s second largest US cereal brand (Frosted Mini Wheats).

In addition to his role at South Street Advisers, Mr. English is also an active member of the Board of Directors at Wisdom Analytics, an early-stage growth company that is deploying artificial intelligence to transform the Revenue-Growth-Management and Trade-Promotion-Optimization practices within the CPG industry.

Mr. English holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and began hist study of the CPG industry as a Food Marketing Fellow while earning his BS from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Mr. English remains involved with Cornell where he lectures annually at the university’s Food Executive Program. And in his free time Mr. English has coached his son’s recreational baseball and basketball teams. He holds series 7, 63, 86 and 87 FINRA certifications and a National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) coach certification.