SCOTTS MIRACLE GRO (SMG)
Sector: Materials
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Sector: Materials
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Director information for SMG
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| SMG | Director | 75 | ["Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanft Ideas LLC", "Operating partner at Shine Capital", "Advisor to the March Group", "Director for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc. since 2019", "Experienced in marketing, branding, consumer insight, and strategic consultancy", "Frequent commentator on marketing and branding issues"] | ["Finance", "Innovation and Technology"] | 2025 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Adam Hanft, age 75, Director of the Company since 2010 Mr. Hanft is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanft Ideas LLC ( Hanft Ideas ), a strategic consultancy that provides marketing, branding, and consumer insight support to leading consumer and business-to-business companies. These include many leading digital brands ranging from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, digital health, fintech, foodtech and adtech. Mr. Hanft is also an operating partner at Shine Capital, a leading early-stage venture firm, where he is active in reviewing potential investments and providing strategic and marketing services to portfolio companies. In addition, he serves as an advisor to the March Group, a venture firm focused on technology in food and agriculture. Mr. Hanft also serves as a director for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc. since 2019, and sits on a number of start-up boards as well as advisory boards, including AgFunder, GeoSure, Clarity and Sensory Cloud. He writes broadly about the consumer culture for numerous publications, is a podcast co-host, and is the co-author of Dictionary of the Future. He is also a frequent commentator on marketing and branding issues, and a regular columnist on business and cultural trends at Inc. magazine. Mr. Hanft previously served as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanft Unlimited, Inc., a marketing organization created in 2004 that included an advertising agency, strategic consultancy and custom-publishing operation. As the Chief Executive Officer of Hanft Ideas, Mr. Hanft brings his extensive leadership and experience in the fields of strategy, marketing and advertising as well as his digital technology experience to the Board. His knowledge of the consumer and retail landscape; the rapidly changing media environment including social media; agtech and the cannabis industry; and the consumer acquisition ecosystem, have proven to be particularly valuable to the Board. Committee Memberships: Finance; Innovation and Technology