Cornell has also held senior roles at PepsiCo and Michaels Stores, and was chief executive at Target prior to becoming executive chair earlier this year.

The other new additions are Lauren Cooks Levitan, co-founder and co-chief executive at Root and lead independent director at Elf Beauty, and Rohit Prasad, former senior vice-president and head scientist of artificial general intelligence at Amazon.com.

Prasad worked on Amazon’s AI strategy for more than a decade, including helping to develop Amazon Alexa and the company’s frontier model brand Nova.

Cooks Levitan has had experience as president and chief financial officer at Faire Wholesale, chief financial officer at Fanatics, founding partner at Moxie Capital, and managing director at Cowen and Company and Robertson Stephens.

Stuart Aitken, president and chief executive at Circana, said: “These appointments strengthen the board’s ability to guide Circana’s strategy and accelerate the value we deliver to our global clients.

“Each of these individuals brings complementary strengths – retail and consumer expertise, financial leadership, and deep AI innovation – that will sharpen our execution and support our next chapter of growth.” 

Blake Kleinman, chairman of the board of Circana, added: “The addition of Brian, Lauren and Rohit brings invaluable expertise to Circana’s board. Their leadership will help us scale with purpose and elevate the impact we deliver to our clients and across the industries we serve.”