North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit

Gregg Roden is Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of PepsiCo, responsible for Global Supply Chain and Operations, leading North America and International Supply Chains, Global Procurement, and Global Employee Health & Safety. Working across a complex operating environment that is evolving rapidly, Gregg has consistently demonstrated the ability to find innovative solutions that enhance our operational capabilities and build strong business relationships that meet the needs of our consumers, customers, and associates.

Previously as Senior Vice President of PepsiCo’s North American Supply Chain, he drove the transformation agenda across the beverages and foods supply chain in North America. This included the strategy and implementation to evolve our North America manufacturing and distribution network and establish agile fulfillment models to provide consumers and customers world-class service in an Omni-channel marketplace and launch differentiated technology for best-in-class planning and execution.

Gregg has held a variety of senior leadership positions with PepsiCo Foods North America, including region vice president of supply chain for the Southeast region, senior vice president of supply chain for the West division, senior vice president of quality, productivity, and sustainability, and senior vice president of Supply Chain for PFNA.

Gregg joined PepsiCo in 1990 after graduating from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Distribution. Gregg is based in Plano, TX.

Nolan Terry serves as Chief Technical Officer of Nestlé Purina – North America, overseeing 25 pet care product manufacturing sites and distribution centers. He supports more than 10,000 technical and operations associates across Safety, Quality, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and Distribution.

His career with Nestlé Purina began in 1994 as a Management Development Associate. After holding progressively responsible positions in Quality Management, Nolan expanded his expertise by leading manufacturing operations in both Canada and the United States. He later joined the Head Office in St. Louis, where he led support functions in Safety & Health and Manufacturing Excellence (Continuous Improvement). Nolan then led the Golden Products Operations team before taking responsibility for category leadership of Dry Petfood Operations in North America. Nolan assumed his current role in 2022.

Known for boldly embracing change and encouraging a one-team approach, Nolan thrives on empowering every level of the organization to take ownership of winning results. He is passionate about inspiring, coaching, and developing the leaders who will unlock the future of operations and fuel business growth.

As Tesla’s Director of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) for Texas Manufacturing, Brandon Freeman strategically manages critical EHS risks, empowers stakeholder, and drives collaboration and ownership of EHS in support of Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Brandon began his Tesla career in 2017 as an EHS Manager in Fremont, California where he led EHS for Model S, X, 3, and initial Model Y production at Fremont Factory. Following his EHS Manager role, Brandon successfully led Global Environmental Affairs as Senior Manager and drove significant improvements across North American operations and built the core EHS team for Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. Notably, Brandon directed the environmental due diligence and environmental permitting project for Gigafactory Texas from 2020 – 2021 and accomplished this under budget and with no environmental permit related schedule impacts. After three years of leading successful and impactful EHS initiatives during Tesla’s historically fast growth, Brandon was tasked to build, lead, and spearhead the development of fast growing EHS programs for Texas Manufacturing.

Brandon possesses an extensive EHS background including designing and implementing enterprise-wide EHS risk management systems for manufacturing, construction, utilities, real estate, transportation, natural resources, retail, data centers, new products and technologies. Prior to Tesla, Brandon was an Regional Environmental Manager for Nucor Corporation and helped multiple subsidiaries elevate environmental performance and eventually earn Nucor’s coveted Presidents Environmental Award for multiple years in a row. Brandon’s expertise in driving enterprise wide improvements in environmental stewardship received him state recognition in the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program, earning several facilities Gold Leader status.

Early on in his career, Brandon worked as a consultant that delivered innovative and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of Fortune 500 clients in aerospace, defense, utilities, and manufacturing. He began his EHS career as a Department of Defense contractor leading environmental compliance and remediation projects for the Air Force, Army and Navy.

Brandon earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science from The Ohio State University and a Master’s Degree in Environmental, Safety, and Health Management from the University of Findlay. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio Brandon garnered a deep appreciation for natural resources and sustainability while spending his childhood growing up along the Little Miami Watershed, Ohio’s first designated National and State scenic river and tributary to the Ohio River.

Peter Gibbons joined 3M in November 2021 as group president of Enterprise Supply Chain, which includes planning, procurement, internal and external manufacturing, logistics, quality, engineering, and business supply chain.

Prior to 3M, Peter served as chief executive officer of TireHub, a joint venture last mile distributor between Bridgestone and Goodyear. Possessing a wealth of experience in manufacturing and supply chain operations, Peter previously held senior-level executive positions at Mattel, Starbucks and ICI Paints. His growth mindset, inclusive leadership, and orientation toward developing talent and culture has helped him lead highly successful complex changes and significant transformation.

“I believe that building confidence and removing the fear of failure are key components of leadership,” says Peter. “People achieve great things when they are embraced and valued; when they are connected, not isolated; and when their intelligence and imagination are unleashed.”

Outside of work, Peter enjoys hiking, reading, and supporting the Glasgow Celtic soccer club and serves on the board of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Edinburgh and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow, Scotland.

Roberto Isaias is Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Mattel. He joined Mattel in 2002. In his role, Mr. Isaias oversees all aspects of Mattel’s global supply chain, including engineering, logistics and planning, manufacturing, procurement, safety and quality, and sustainability.

Under Mr. Isaias’ leadership, Mattel has made transformative improvements across its global supply chain, reducing costs and time-to-market while also improving service to retailers. As part of the company’s Capital Light strategy, Mattel has consolidated or exited 5 factories, optimized its manufacturing footprint, reduced complexity in the system, and increased productivity of plant infrastructure.

By 2021, Mattel factories were located in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Mexico, employing approximately 27,000 people in peak season. The company also works with leading third-party manufacturers to meet consumer demand for Mattel product.

Mr. Isaias held a variety of leadership roles at Mattel in Latin America prior to his appointment as Chief Supply Chain Officer in 2019. He served five years as Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Latin America. Previously, Mr. Isaias served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Spanish Latin America, overseeing all of Mattel’s operations in Latin America except Brazil. Prior to Mattel, Mr. Isaias worked for 12 years at Procter & Gamble in various commercial and supply chain leadership positions.

Mr. Isaias received a degree in Engineering at Universidad Anáhuac and an MBA from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He is certified in Total Productive Maintenance by the Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance.

Luiz Lima is an executive with more than 20 years of experience in the consumer durables goods industry working in Europe, North and Latin America as well as global functions. Lima is responsible for managing all supply chain activities in North America, including End-to-End planning (Sales & Operations Planning, sourced, production, components supply planning and network planning), transportation management (domestic and international), warehouse network management (RDC/FDC), customs and trade compliance, Direct-to-Consumer, last mile logistics and plant manufacturing supply chain.

Lima reports operationally to Ricardo Cons, President and CEO of Electrolux Group North  America and functionally to Gregor Dudek SVP Group Supply Chain.

Lima joined Electrolux Group in 2004. He has held several roles in the group within Supply Chain, Manufacturing, IT, Controlling and Finance. More recently, Luiz was Supply Chain Director for Latin America, Operations PMO & Business Intelligence Manager LATAM, and Head of SAP Manufacturing in Europe.

Lima is a graduate of the FAE Business School, Curitiba, Brazil with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He has an MBA in Supply Chain Management at PUC-PR, Curitiba, Brazil and Executive Education, Supply Chain Strategy and Innovations at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, CA.

 Luiz was awarded in 2022 Best Supply Chain Professional of the Year – Consumer Goods by INBRASC – Brazil.