Renée Peets is an accomplished global supply chain and procurement executive, CPA, and strategic leader with over 25 years of experience in industries such as CPG, manufacturing, and restaurants. With a passion for building, developing, and transforming organizations with customer-centric and industry perspectives, she has a proven track record of success by exceeding expectations in business acumen, operations and procurement aptitude, M&A, turnarounds, transformational leadership, and developing others. Peets values inclusion and diversity, integrity, leadership, and courageous authenticity. As a trusted expert in supply chain, procurement, and operations management, she has achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in value creation by establishing and fostering strategic and integrated partner relationships. Peets has extensive experience with agricultural commodity strategy, supply chain disruption, risk mitigation, sustainability, environmental, and social responsibility. She studied BSBA in Accounting with a minor in English at Western New England University. Peets was the Senior Vice President of Procurement at The Kraft Heinz Company and the Vice President of Supply Chain and Procurement at Mars. She was also the VP of Global Supply Chain and Quality Assurance at Le Pain Quotidien, Senior Director of Cheese and Dairy Procurement at Kraft Foods Group, and held various senior purchasing roles at Friendly's Ice Cream, LLC. Before her corporate career, Peets worked as an Audit Manager at Deloitte.

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