Wynne Tyree
Chief Smarty Pants
- Founder and president of Smarty Pants with more than 15 years experience as a strategic planner, moderator, data analyst and brand consultant for many of the world’s most respected CPG, food and beverage, technology, toy and entertainment companies
- Highly respected thinker, speaker and strategist who eats, sleeps and breaths kids and families and how best to develop for and market to them
- Gifted researcher with a mastery of qualitative and quantitative methods and why and how to use both
- Author of “Conducting Research with Children” – available through Henry Stewart Talks
- Regular contributor to online and print publications such as Ad Age, Youth Markets Alert, Brandweek, Kidscreen and Quirk’s who has also been featured on ABC’s World News Tonight
- Frequent presenter and chairperson for youth and family marketing conferences
- Former VP and founder of the research and strategy practice at a small kid agency in CT, where she developed a love for conducting research with kids and guiding clients through their business challenges
- Brand Planning ex-patriot of Grey Advertising (NYC) who refined her consumer insights and brand positioning skills partnering with marketing giants such as P&G, 3M, and Campbell’s
- Former Research Executive at Young and Rubicam (NYC) who studied how consumers develop relationships with brands via extensive work on the agency’s Brand Asset Valuator (BAV) model
- Magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University who then obtained her Masters at Temple University - both degrees in Social Science
Fun Facts about Wynne
- Proud mother of an amazing eight-year-old daughter and four-year-old son
- Currently expecting her 3rd in late November/early December
- Adoring wife of Radames Rodriguez, Smarty Pants co-founder, renaissance man and dad extraordinaire
- Grammar, punctuation and spelling Nazi
- Radio Disney lover… even when the kids aren’t in the car
- Trashy reality TV enthusiast when in need of a guilty pleasure (Yes, Jersey Shore, Real Housewives)
- Passionate giver (to the community, to employees, and to those in need)
- Spanish speaker who loves Latin music and food and can dance a mean merengue
- Bold risk taker who constantly pushes herself and others – from starting an international research empire while nursing a newborn to getting her motorcycle license so she can scoot around town on a Vespa
- Holder of secret fantasy to retire from the business world and become a stand-up comic


