Prior Roles

• Strbucks: Director of Value Chain Planning for Starbucks
• HJ Heinz: Director of Integrated Supply Chain, implementing the next generation of S&OP

Education

• MBA from the Babcock School of Business at Wake Forest University
• Industrial Engineering degree from EAFIT University in Colombia, South America

Sven transitioned from customer service to demand planning in 2006, taking a demand planner role at Black & Decker. He has worked in S&OP and demand planning ever since at companies including BASF, Omega Pharma, Wolf Oil, and most recently, Petronas Lubricants where he is currently working as Global Network Planning & Optimization Manager. Here, he and his team built a Demand Planning process bridging regional HQs and EU markets to support the regional S&OP process. Sven is now member of the Global Centre of Excellence, responsible for the Demand Planning Process around the world. His focuses are aligning the process at global level, running regional capability analysis, providing global training, and executing S&OP maturity assessments. Sven holds a degree in Economics and Languages from AP Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium, and is an IBF Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF).

Deepak Jose is a digital transformation and commercial strategy professional and is currently the Head of Business Strategy and Advanced Analytics at Mars. He leads analytics transformation programs for Pet Care, Mars Wrigley, Food, and Multi Sales segments to drive profitable growth for Mars and its customers. He leads a global team of data scientists and business translators driving digital transformations. Prior to Mars, Deepak worked for Coca-Cola, ABB, and Mu Sigma. He holds an MBA from George Washington University School of Business and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT in Calicut, India. He is also an Executive Data Council member at BCI Summit-based out of New York, and co-author of the international bestselling book, Leading through Pandemic - Unconventional Wisdom from Heartfelt Leaders.