Neerja Kathuria is responsible for NACS' international initiatives and programming for the NACS Global and International Forums. She also manages Convenience Tracking Program (CTP), NACS’s new shopper insights program and overseas CSX LLC (CStoreXchange), the convenience and petroleum retailing industry’s largest purpose-built, online database application for financial and operations benchmarking.

Neerja has 14 years of global consumer products and retail experience, including driving strategic business growth in the United States, Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, and Indian markets. She most recently was senior manager of sales and intermediary analysis and reporting for Marriott International Inc. Prior to that, she spent 12 years with Anheuser-Busch Inc. where she most recently was director of retail business solutions, sales and market analysis. Neerja also served as the senior key account manager responsible for Anheuser-Busch’s international Wal-Mart Team; senior manager of category management for Anheuser-Busch’s Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club team, and global business analyst for Asia and South America, among other positions.

Neerja earned a B.S. in business administration and a post-graduate diploma in international marketing from the University of Delhi, and an M.S. in management systems and M.B.A. in marketing from Northern Illinois University. /P>

Neerja and her husband, Dr. Sajeev Kathuria, reside in Potomac, Maryland.