Chris Millington

Nestlé

• Developed and executed the first group level strategy for the Nescafé brand, the group's number one brand asset. This was achieved with a clear vision, ambition, and significant stakeholder management, especially at Board level.

• Initiated and implemented a new approach to R&D and built a new facility, a Nestlé first, to support the execution of the first-ever innovation roadmap. The facility managed all elements of innovation from ideation to global market commercialization across all market economic types.

• Brought in external development partners to help strengthen that of the internal R&D function; this was managed through technology exclusivity contracts.

• Launched the first ever healthier beverage brand for Nestlé in the cold segment, backed by a strategic roadmap in cold beverages.

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Firmenich

• Transformed the performance of North America by creating and executing a new strategy focusing on customer diversification and business model, which led to the division delivering the highest growth vs. competitors within the US market.

• Following promotion to Divisional President, the new leadership team and I developed both the 2020 strategy and 2025 ambition with full Board support. This included both organic and inorganic ambitions with key deliverables and milestones with significant investment. This was achieved through the creation of a new definition of the business parameter to be beyond simple Flavor, which required Board and Family shareholder approval. This required managing key internal stakeholders at all levels, campaigning the new vision with customers globally and, of course, the divisional teams.

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Throughout this transformation, the division continued to deliver record results in financial KPI’s, setting group records, successfully achieving core listing at all major global and regional F&B companies, and achieving record employee engagement scores.