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Alene Korby is Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer for Kraft Foods Inc. Korby is responsible for the company's information systems worldwide and for managing key outsourced and shared services.
Korby's tenure at Kraft began in 1981 when she joined the company as a Senior Research Scientist. In 1986 she joined the Corporate Strategy department, and in 1991 she was named Director of Commercial Operations. She became Vice President, Manufacturing/Foodservice Co-packing in 1995 and then soon was named Vice President, Operations for the Meals Division in 1996. She was assigned Vice President, Purchasing in 1998 and named Senior Vice President, Procurement, in June 2001.
In January 2002, she was named Senior Vice President, Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain. Korby was responsible for leading procurement activities across the company as well as the development of the company's integrated supply chain strategy. She oversaw the purchasing of more than $10 billion in goods and services annually from ingredients, food packaging and office supplies to risk management of commodities. Later that year she was named Senior Vice President, Enterprise Processes, Kraft Foods North America, with responsibility for the integration and strategic alignment of key enterprise-wide business processes, including procurement and information systems.
Prior to joining Kraft, Korby was a manager at Jovan/Yardley overseeing commercialization of new products in the company's marketing group. She also was in plant engineering at Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1981.
Korby has a B.A. in Biology from Lewis University and is an M.B.A. candidate in Business Administration from the University of Chicago. | 