Background

Vinod has nearly 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry and has worked with companies such as Nestlé and Mars. His multi-country expertise lies in developing Corporate R&D strategy, Global Research and Development, R&D digital transformation, as well as large scale Manufacturing and Plant management. He also has experience in managing global projects and portfolios, green/brown field start-ups, scale-ups, industrial engineering, quality and food safety, external manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, and people development. In his current role, which plays a key part in the end-to-end R&D digital transformation, he leads a global team with specialist expertise in R&D processes, systems, data, analytics, and the connected digital landscape. His team ensures that the foundation of R&D digital capabilities is sustained, adopted at scale across the company, and improved to be fit for the future.