Too many barriers
between data and
the decisions that matter.

That conviction is why BevGenie exists. We are enterprise data engineers and beverage-industry operators — people who have built the pipelines underneath large suppliers, and people who have sat in the seat this product serves.

Why we exist

A category rich in data, poor in real-time visibility.

Beverage alcohol is one of the richest industries in operational signals — distributor movements, retail scans, depletions, pricing, resets, execution, programming, innovation cycles. And yet it remains one of the hardest environments for accessing timely, connected, decision-ready intelligence.

Depletions tell one story. Retail scans tell another. Distributor scorecards add a third. Field teams surface issues no system captures at all. Each dataset is accurate inside its own universe, and none of them align.

We built BevGenie, powered by the ConsumerIQ™ Intelligence Platform, because that convergence had to exist before AI could be useful here at all.

How the platform works
Leadership

The people accountable for it.

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Shyam Jayakumar

Founder & CEO

Shyam founded BevGenie after two decades of solving enterprise data and integration problems for large organizations. His conviction is simple: beverage companies don't have a data shortage; they have too many barriers between that data and the decisions that matter.

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Srinivas Jagannathan

Chief Product Officer

Srini has spent his career in product and strategy roles at the intersection of data, logistics, and enterprise software. At BevGenie, he owns the product roadmap, translating what beverage sales and operations teams actually need into a platform they can use without a data team holding their hand.

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Gauri Sharma

Head of Data & Analytics

Gauri brings over 15 years of beverage industry experience to BevGenie. She's worked on the analytics side at global alcohol brands, which means she understands the data problems BevGenie solves from the inside. At BevGenie, she leads data and analytics, ensuring the platform delivers insights that reflect how the industry actually operates.

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Advisors

Experience from inside the category.

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Matt Rice

Advisor

Matt spent 19 years at Constellation Brands, most recently as Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Analytics. Along the way he led Constellation Ventures, the company's venture capital arm, and managed a $250M wine and spirits brand portfolio. He advises BevGenie on what senior strategy and finance leaders need to see before they act on a recommendation.

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Julian Cohen

Advisor

Julian ran global insights and innovation at Beam for Jim Beam, Maker's Mark and Courvoisier, then led business intelligence at Constellation Brands as SVP across Corona, Modelo, Robert Mondavi and Kim Crawford. He advises BevGenie on turning insight into decisions a commercial team will actually make.

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Randy Browne

Advisor

Randy headed category strategy and shopper insights at Molson Coors for its Albertsons and Ahold Delhaize business, where his team won Albertsons' 2023 Total Alcohol Supplier of the Year. Before that he directed analytics and insights at C. Mondavi & Family and held analytics roles at Campari Group and Brown-Forman. He advises BevGenie on how category and sales teams use data in the room, so the product answers the questions they are asked.

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Why we're positioned to build this

Three things that rarely
sit in one company.

01

Integration DNA

We've spent years connecting the hardest systems in and around beverage — VIP, NIQ, internal ERPs, CRMs, TPM platforms, and an entire long tail of operational tools. We know exactly where the data breaks and what it takes to make it line up reliably.

02

Deep category context

Our team hasn't just served large suppliers; many of us have worked inside them. We understand how revenue, sales, marketing, and innovation teams make decisions in the real world. We know what "usable intelligence" actually needs to look like in this category.

03

AI as infrastructure, not garnish

We're not sprinkling AI on top of legacy reports. We're using AI to operationalize intelligence — detecting early signals, filtering out noise, and delivering recommendations directly into the workflows where decisions get made. AI that drives outcomes, not AI that generates more dashboards.

“The most successful beverage companies will be the ones that treat intelligence as a connected, always-on capability — not a monthly reporting ritual.”
Shyam Jayakumar, Founder & CEO
Pilot program

Help define what modern commercial intelligence looks like.

If you're a supplier, distributor, or retailer, we'd be happy to involve you in our pilot program. No pressure, no commitments — just a shared interest in finally building the system this industry has always needed.

  • A select group of early partners shaping the MVP
  • Direct access to the people building the product
  • Your data stays yours — see our commitments

Come talk to the people who built it.

Demos are run by the team that owns the product, not a script.