Cargill

Group Chief Technology Officer for the Salt Business Group, member of the senior business leadership team reporting to the Corporate IT Enterprise Technology Officer and Business Unit President. Manages a multi-million-dollar budget and leads global technology teams across multiple countries for Cargill a global food and agricultural company with operations in 70 countries across multiple business sectors. IT Leadership | business and IT Transformation Strategy | Customer Excellence | M&A: ● Collaborate with senior executives to develop vision and strategies for technology, data, and digital initiatives to achieve business goals to achieve growth, and profitability ● Lead strategic roadmap development and execution of technology and process improvements across customer, supply chain, and manufacturing technology systems. ● Prioritize the technology portfolio to achieve better financial results, growth, customer experiences, and lower costs in targeted areas. ● Modernize technology platforms across the business by applying automation, AI, data science, and data insights. ● Lead Merger, Acquisition, and Divestiture technology activities with executive colleagues. ● Initiated and sponsored strategy development, organizational alignment, and advancing solutions from pilot to scale across manufacturing and customer technologies. Global Technology Operations | Governance | Portfolio Development: ● Oversee infrastructure, software application development, systems lifecycle, security, global contingency plans, service level management, and all areas that support business technology capabilities. ● Build and lead teams of technology professionals across different countries and different disciplines. ● Manage external partnerships, including contracts, external solutions service providers and resource partners. ● Reduced year-over-year technology costs.