Brad Spickert

Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, The Coca-Cola Company

Brad Spickert is the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain for the North America Operating Unit. In this role, he is responsible for leading all aspects of Coca-Cola’s Supply Chain operations in the U.S. and Canada, including company-owned operations, co-manufacturing, operational procurement, engineering, productivity, customer solutions, quality/safety/environmental and sustainability, forecasting and planning, and order-to-cash management.   

Prior to this role, Brad was the Senior Vice President of Innovation and Commercialization leading development and commercialization of all product innovations for North America’s Sparkling, Still, Juice, and Foodservice businesses.  Previously Brad was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the glacéau/hydration brands (DASANI, Smartwater, Vitaminwater, and Powerade). 

Brad joined Coca-Cola in 2006 as the Group Director of Strategic Initiatives, working primarily on overall strategy and M&A opportunities, including the acquisition of the glacéau and FUZE businesses. Brad has also served as Vice President of Marketing for the Foodservice & On-Premise Business Unit, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for North America, and Vice President of On-Premise Marketing & Commercial Capability.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Brad was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in the Atlanta office, working primarily with clients in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and transportation industries on key strategic issues such as pricing, long-range planning, and operational performance improvement. Brad started his career in product development with Boeing’s Commercial Aircraft Group in Seattle, Washington as an Aircraft Performance Engineer.

Brad graduated from The University of Kansas, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and earned his MBA degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brad resides in the Morningside neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife, Kate, and children Daniel, Morgan, and Emmett.

Brian Dick

President and Chief Executive Officer, Golden State Foods

Brian formerly served as Corporate Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing all global food manufacturing and logistics operations for Golden State Foods (GSF), a diversified, $6 billion supplier to the foodservice industry, servicing more than 200 leading brands from its 50+ locations on 5 continents. He provides strategic leadership and direction for all worldwide activities to ensure the attainment of all quality, cost, timeliness, safety, and customer satisfaction objectives and company financial and growth goals.

A GSF associate for more than two decades, Brian joined the company as Business Development Manager for GSF Egypt, where he was based for three years, and has since contributed to much of GSF’s success in diversifying the company’s Liquid Products and Protein businesses domestically and overseas. He held multiple business development roles after transferring to the U.S. and later assuming leadership of the U.S. sales force as Group Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  

In leading GSF Liquid Products as Group Vice President and General Manager, Liquid Products, Brian helped the Conyers Liquids team earn various customer Supplier of the Year awards, as well as GSF’s highest company honor, the Chairman’s Challenge Award, in 2011. As the Corporate Vice President and President, Liquid Products, North America, Brian continued to expand GSF’s national footprint in Liquid Products, while forming the structure of that business, which still remains in place today. Active in the GSF Foundation, Brian chaired the Foundation’s 2012 Vendor Campaign, with outstanding results, and serves on the board of the foundation today.

Brian’s leadership expanded internationally as Corporate Senior Vice President and President, Global Liquid Products and GSF Fresh! Produce, and then as Corporate Senior Vice President and President, Global Manufacturing. He developed a solid structure in GSF’s food manufacturing groups that met the company’s strategy, in order to grow its customer bases profitably.

Originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, Brian earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and modern languages from Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland. He and his wife, Amy, have four children.

Leandro Balbinot

Vice President of Technology, Amazon; Chief Technology Officer, Whole Foods Market

Leandro Balbinot is Chief Technology Officer at Whole Foods Market and has more than 30 years of technology and transformation experience in consumer package goods, beverage, physical retail, and quick-serve industries. At Whole Foods Market, Leandro oversees all strategy, design, development, delivery, and support for all technology within Whole Foods Market, including large-program delivery, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, portfolio planning, and security.

Leandro is passionate about the customer experience and creating, improving, and scaling technology to enhance the way we live. Throughout his career, Leandro has held leadership roles in engineering and product management for both custom and package software. He spent three years as Senior Vice President of Global Technology and Digital at McDonald’s. Prior to that, he held different leadership positions for six years at The Kraft Heinz Company, like Senior Vice President of Digital Product Development and Engineering and Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Heinz. Leandro also served as Head of E-commerce and Global CIO for a large fashion retail company in Latin America, after many leadership roles at Anheuser-Busch InBev in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America.

In his free time, Leandro enjoys staying active with bike riding and tennis; he is an avid traveler, lifelong surfer, and unofficial grill master. Leandro enjoys spending quality time with his family as well, including his wife and three children.