NextGen Supply Chain End User Awards

Speakers

• Brian Straight Editor in Chief, SCMR
  Peerless Media, LLC
  

  

  Brian Straight

  Editor in Chief, SCMR

  Peerless Media, LLC
• Kristen Daihes SVP Digital, Analytics & Data
  Mars Snacking
  

  

  Kristen Daihes

  SVP Digital, Analytics & Data

  Mars Snacking

  Kristen is the Senior Vice President of Analytics, Digital and Data supporting the Supply, R&D, and Commercial functions of Mars Snacking. She joined Mars in 2021 to lead the Global Supply Chain function, exploring how the intersection of her prior industry experience and tech start-up experiences could support the acceleration of value supporting Mars growth agenda. She leads an investment program to bring AI-enabled digital solutions to life to support growth while making work easier for Associates. 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.