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DALLAS, TX – January 31, 2022 – o9 Solutions, the leading AI-powered integrated business planning platform, announced a new member with decades of experience in CPG.
Gustavo Lopez Ghory was most recently the CSCO at Kimberly-Clark and prior to that, worked for 35 years within the CPG industry including several key senior leadership roles at P&G. In 2018, he co-founded SmarterChains SA. A Swiss technology start-up that helps manufacturers and supply chain professionals to define and execute their digital strategy towards factories and supply chains of the future.
“Gustavo has the perfect mindset to fit in with the Executive Council. He has mastered many disciplines across the supply chain and brings with him an exceptional level of leadership and experience. He has a disruptive start-up mentality and is eager to innovate. This is precisely what we are looking for at the Council. Welcome, Gustavo!”
Chakri Gottemukkala
CEO - o9 Solutions
Gustavo excels at creating business-relevant strategies, designing effective organizations, and developing winning teams. He is an outstanding leader with a track record of driving the acceleration of top and bottom-line results while delivering breakthrough operational excellence and competitive capabilities.
Gustavo led both Global and Regional operations across the different BUs in which P&G competed. He has also mastered other disciplines in Supply Chain Operations, Global Planning, and Global Manufacturing. Gustavo says:
“I am inspired by the o9 team’s capabilities and drive for a truly integrated supply chain planning and management solution.”
Former CSCO of Kimberly-Clark
About the aim10x Executive Council
The aim10x Executive Council is a network of visionary leaders who have built significant operating experience at some of the world’s largest companies. Together they will set the vision for all aspects of an integrated enterprise—from supply chain to finance, sales, and product development, which will lead to global enterprises that are more efficient, sustainable, and profitable. It is part of the broader ‘aim10x’ initiative sponsored by o9 Solutions, which aims to empower a global community of professionals who are dedicated to digitally transforming planning and decision-making capabilities. The aim10x Executive Council members are sharing their insights about leadership, strategy, change management, and Digital Transformation journeys through the aim10x Webinars, aim10x Podcasts, and aim10x Innovators Network.
For additional information, visit the website of the aim10x Executive Council.
About the authors
o9
The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
