In consumer goods, retail, and food and beverage, technology leaders are leveraging data and automation to reinvent supply chains and customer experiences.
Suresh Kumar, Global CTO and Chief Development Officer at Walmart (#45), combines cloud scale with retail physical footprints, while Seth Cohen, CIO at Procter & Gamble (#46), elevates digital strategy across global value chains. At Unilever, Sam Kini (#75) drives the push to build an AI-first consumer business, complemented by Christopher Wright, CIO at Nestlé (#76), who guides global digital core transformations, and Hema Yalamanchi, Chief Data & AI Officer at The Kraft Heinz Company (#80), who is establishing trusted data foundations for automated decision-making.
Shining a light on work across energy, healthcare and mobility
In heavy industry and energy, technological strategy is delivering critical sustainability and grid modernisation. Ahmad Al-Kohwaiter, EVP of Technology & Innovation at Aramco (#13), and Robbert Van Rutten, EVP of Information and Digital Technology and CIO at Shell (#42), lead clean energy research and digital risk management. Simultaneously, Les Copeland, CIO at Chevron (#15), and Rob Cain, SVP and CTO at Xcel Energy (#67), scale grid-enabling AI and connected industrial solutions across complex global infrastructure.
Meanwhile in healthcare and biopharmaceuticals, technology leaders are bridging deep data science with life-saving delivery. Jim Swanson, CIO at Johnson & Johnson (#89), Lidia Fonseca, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Pfizer (#90), and Dave Williams, CIO at Merck (#92), deploy advanced cloud networks, machine learning and digital twins from lab research straight through to global distribution.
