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Modern Current
Where Culture Drives Commerce.

Brands don’t grow by being everywhere, they grow by being present where consumers discover, evaluate, choose, and buy.
 

BE THERE.
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How We Help

5 Levers. Let’s Pull the Ones
That Grow Your Brand.

Growth
Platforms

Scaled programming, cultural strategy, connected campaigns, and demand gen built for how people discover brands now.

Commerce & Shopper

Omnichannel strategy, digital shelf optimization, retail media, and shopper activation — where the click meets the cart.

Sports, Partnerships & Entertainment

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Sports partnerships, talent and influencer strategy, event platforms, and brand collabs that put you inside culture, not next to it.

Consumer Product & Licensing

Licensing strategy, product expansion, and retail integration that turn brand equity you already own into new revenue.

Growth Operating Models

Org design, capability building, and planning systems - the internal engine that keeps growth from being a one-off.

Our Approach

Retail shelf. Digital shelf. Cultural shelf. Now the Agentic shelf.
Four shelves.

Modern Current builds the strategy that gets you on all four.

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Run by operators who've sat inside the P&Ls, built shopper programs, launched retail media, and developed brand marketing for some of the biggest names in food and beverage.

 

We've lived through every reinvention since the dial-up modem. We’ve done the job. We know what it takes to turn presence into performance.

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Our Team

Modern Current Founder

Stephen Chriss
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With 35+ years leading shopper, brand, digital, and omni-commerce strategy for some of the most recognized CPG brands in the world – from Oreo, Ritz, to the Olympics and Campbell's – Stephen built Modern Current to keep doing what he's always done: reinvent before the market forces it. Learn More >

Specialized and differentiated experts providing boutique care to address your needs.
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Head of Omni Commerce

Rachel Botia

Commerce | Retail Media | Digital Shelf

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Head of Omni Retail Marketing 

Mandi Rinderle

Shopper Strategy & Activation

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Head of Partnerships

Tim McGhee

Sports & Entertainment | Partnerships

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Head of Licensing

Kim Ritch

Consumer Products Licensing

Our Clients

Insights from Modern Current

CURRENT is a publication from Modern Current exploring the shifts we believe matter to brands now, with a point of view on what they mean for our clients and where the opportunities are.

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