Our Founder

Jessy Stamates founded Outpace Partners after twenty+ years with Procter & Gamble.

Throughout her career, Jessy built a reputation for maintaining a pulse on innovation and consumers' emerging wants and needs. Over the last 10 years she specialized in the intersection of brand and retail, retail innovation, unified commerce, and behavioral science. 

She has led retail strategy engagements with more than 30 NA retailers from Walmart and Amazon to Kroger to Big Lots and more. Through these she focused on responding to the changing demands of consumers while navigating the current and future forces driving change in commerce. Her retail experience followed a successful track record of building brands like Olay, Tampax, and Always. 

She thrives on identifying tangible business challenges, creating strategy, and translating into action that produces results. She is also known for creating clear and direct executive communication - both through presentation and in written documents. 

She currently lives near Cincinnati with her husband, kids, and dog.