Kristen is the Global Vice President of Supply Chain. She joined Mars in 2021 to explore how the intersection of her prior industry experience and more recent tech start-up experiences could support the acceleration of value supporting Mars growth agenda. She leads an investment program to digitize and transform the end to end supply chain within Mars to create an agile and flexible omni-channel supply chain, accelerate the data and analytics agenda, and boost supply chain capabilities. What most excites Kristen is leading with problem solving and teaming cross-functionally to provoke and explore new possibilities in driving quality growth enablement. Prior to joining Mars, she was a Partner for Opex Analytics and supported a number of companies to reinvent their supply chains and operations with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics. She has held strategic planning, innovation, and engineering roles in Procter & Gamble and Unilever and was the Vice President of Global Supply Chain for SC Johnson. Kristen resides in Chicago with her husband and two Skittles-loving sons.