Board of Directors

Kirk Perry is a board member for Circana.

Perry previously served as president and CEO of Circana, successfully leading the company through the IRI and NPD merger in August 2022. Prior to that, he was the CEO of IRI.

Perry is a seasoned consumer products and brand strategist with more than 30 years of CPG and technology experience at two of the world’s largest and most respected companies, Procter & Gamble and Google. At Google, Perry served as president of Global Client and Agency Solutions, responsible for driving Google’s global revenue and growing its relationships with the world’s largest advertisers and advertising agencies. He previously spent 23 years at P&G in several roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in a position as president of Global Family Care, in which he led growth and innovation at the company’s multibillion-dollar global paper business.

Perry also serves on the boards of The J.M. Smucker Company, Kenvue, and Chick-fil-A, Inc., and he is a member of the Cincinnati Innovation District Advisory Council. He previously served as a director of e.l.f. Beauty and Hillerich & Bradsby Co. (Louisville Slugger), a privately owned sporting goods manufacturer. Perry also had several prior board affiliations with nonprofit organizations, including The Ronald McDonald House, The CityLink Foundation, City Team, The United Way Campaign Cabinet, March of Dimes (national and regional), the University of Cincinnati Foundation, and the University of Cincinnati’s Bicentennial Commission.