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Group Vice President

From our beginning as a small grocery store in Kerrville, Texas, H-E-B has grown to be one of the largest, independently owned food-retailing companies in the United States. Since 1905, H-E-B has grown to include more than 300 stores in Texas and internationally in Mexico.

Senior Omni-Channel Retail & Consumer Executive with record of "Exceeding Expectations" at Google, HEB, Walmart, Evenflo and Procter & Gamble. Consistently received top rated performance recognition from leaders and peers across a wide range of large and complex retail and consumer goods businesses by creating a compelling vision, establishing a long-range strategy, and building a high performance team focused on breakthrough change versus continuous improvement. Passionate and trusted leader with direct management experience in eCommerce, product management, engineering, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, manufacturing, logistics, finance, information technology, and human resources functions. Established reputation as an inspirational change agent, collaborator and a leader who gets it accomplished. Specialties: * Omnichannel Retail- building the seamless customer relationship driving growth in store and online. * Strategic Business Leadership from portfolio strategy to execution, delivering a track record of results through people. * Customer Driven innovation- Product and Marketing through the eyes of the customer- targeting, equity development, & marketing mix optimization. * Strategy & Consulting- By working with top executives around the world, built a reputation for collaboration and trust to deliver goals. * Emerging Technologies- With the emergence of AI, machine vision, IOT Fusion and 5G, transformative changes are coming through robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Augmented Reality. * Multifunctional mastery- Finance, Supply chain, IT, Marketing...