#100: Pier Luigi Sigismondi President at Dole Packaged Foods
12/10/20 • 45 min
For over 20 years, Pier-Luigi Sigismondi has worked at the intersection of purpose-led brands and value creation for the business. He is a strong believer in the proactive role companies can play against climate change, social equality, and inclusion when doing business.
As President of Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods, a 169 year-old-brand, he is leading a profound transformation, with a vision to make it an iconic Nutrition and Wellness company. One that is driven by purpose, globally.
Prior to Dole, Pier-Luigi was the President of Unilever for South East Asia and Australasia. He joined Unilever and its Executive Board in 2009. Before joining Unilever, Pier-Luigi was Vice President of Corporate Operations Strategies at Nestle’ SA (CH) and VP Operations and R&D Nestle’ Mexico.
He has served as Non-Executive Director of Rexel SA Supervisory Board and was a Board Member of Ben & Jerry’s, one of the brightest purpose-led brands.
In August 2020, Pier Luigi was appointed non-Executive Chairman of Sustenir, a vertical farming start-up based in Singapore committed to delivering triple-bottom-line value to Temasek and other future strategic investors committed to the urban farming industry.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How Pier Luigi made the switch from being Unilever Chief Supply Chain officer to a CEO role
- The importance of purpose beyond buzz words
- How COVID-19 affected sustainability within different companies
- Driving and selling sustainability
- Carbon emission in transportation and manufacturing
- Developing CEOs from supply chain
- Shaping cultures in different organizations
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For over 20 years, Pier-Luigi Sigismondi has worked at the intersection of purpose-led brands and value creation for the business. He is a strong believer in the proactive role companies can play against climate change, social equality, and inclusion when doing business.
As President of Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods, a 169 year-old-brand, he is leading a profound transformation, with a vision to make it an iconic Nutrition and Wellness company. One that is driven by purpose, globally.
Prior to Dole, Pier-Luigi was the President of Unilever for South East Asia and Australasia. He joined Unilever and its Executive Board in 2009. Before joining Unilever, Pier-Luigi was Vice President of Corporate Operations Strategies at Nestle’ SA (CH) and VP Operations and R&D Nestle’ Mexico.
He has served as Non-Executive Director of Rexel SA Supervisory Board and was a Board Member of Ben & Jerry’s, one of the brightest purpose-led brands.
In August 2020, Pier Luigi was appointed non-Executive Chairman of Sustenir, a vertical farming start-up based in Singapore committed to delivering triple-bottom-line value to Temasek and other future strategic investors committed to the urban farming industry.
Discover more details here.
Some of the highlights of the episode:
- How Pier Luigi made the switch from being Unilever Chief Supply Chain officer to a CEO role
- The importance of purpose beyond buzz words
- How COVID-19 affected sustainability within different companies
- Driving and selling sustainability
- Carbon emission in transportation and manufacturing
- Developing CEOs from supply chain
- Shaping cultures in different organizations
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#99: Francisco Betti Head of Advanced Manufacturing and Production at World Economic Forum
Francisco Betti joined the World Economic Forum in May 2015. He is an international development professional and is currently leading the platform for Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, which was launched by the Forum at its Annual Meeting 2017, upon request of world-leading governments and companies. The platform is helping global leaders anticipate how advanced manufacturing technologies are transforming factories, business models and partnerships, and to understand the implications for the economy, society, and environment in order to shape a more inclusive future.
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan, or national interests.
Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, Francisco worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers SA in Geneva, Switzerland, primarily running management consulting projects for international organizations.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- Changes the pandemic has created across supply chains and manufacturing across the world.
- Geopolitical dimension of the global economy and innovation's massive acceleration.
- Next levels of transformation across different companies to fill in the gap that emerged on the supply side.
- Transformation of operations and business models
- Future of manufacturing and operations in terms of of artificial intelligence, robotics, analytics
- Resilience as a major competitive advantage
- Automation and augmentation as a major investment to adapt to the new normal
- Readiness for adapting to change
- things that companies can practically do to constantly upgrade
- Future of manufacturing and production in terms of different talents from across multiple industry
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#101: Kara Goldin Founder & CEO of Hint
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water, and has since expanded outside of the beverage industry with the recent launch of hint sunscreen. She is also the author of “Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters”, which is part autobiography, a part business memoir about her journey building hint into a successful company.
Kara has been named among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Forbes’ 40 Women to Watch Over 40. Also, the Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
- From chasing Steve Jobs for a job to running a 1 billion business and then to setting up Hint
- Starting a new company whilst being pregnant
- Challenges in launching a new category in the market – unsweetened flavored water, and being a mission-based company
- Listening to people say you can’t and quitting vs throwing the gas and keep going
- The biggest message from the book Undaunted, “do it or don’t do it, it is up to you”
- Getting past doubts and worries
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Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics Podcast - #100: Pier Luigi Sigismondi President at Dole Packaged Foods
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Hello everybody. And welcome to the leaders in supply chain podcast. I am your host strata , calamari managing director of ELCA global. It's my great pleasure to welcome. Pierluigi sieges Monday, the president of Dole packaging, and Pierluigi delivered a very interesting keynote presentation as part of the makers and movers summit on sustainability and supply chain. I'll give a quick introductions for some of you who might not know yet pure regio
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