Dan Munford is a Partner and co-owner of UK based Convenience Retail specialists Insight Research. A British and International History graduate, Dan now spends much of his time travelling the World tracing the development of the very latest C-retail formats. He is an international retail expert and regular speaker at international Convenience industry conferences and has 14 years experience in the trade. In his spare time Dan has dabbled in UK politics and has twice stood for the British Parliament. Insight are NACS Global Partners for Europe and run two of the region's most successful Convenience retail conferences in partnership with NACS; Global Convenience Benchmarks in Dublin, Ireland every Spring and Future of Convenience retailing in London, England every Autumn.