Tom Kowalski
Global Executive Leader | Food | M&A | Supply Chain | P&L | Growth | Startups | NASDAQ: BJRI
- Role
- BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
- Location
- Newport Beach, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Kowalski
Bringing nearly two decades of executive leadership, building the right alliances and cross-functional support to create truly novel strategies, scaling businesses, and sustaining high performance teamwork across the supply chain, encompassing innovation and manufacturing in startups, restaurants and fast-moving CPGs.Drawing on operating experiences and capitalizing on my large network of best-in-class practices built over years at leading brands (Wingstop, Mars, Kellogg\'s, and Tyson / Hillshire Brands, PepsiCo). A problem solver at heart, and operating partner with a deep knowledge of the competitive landscape, contributing to the board of directors across executive strategy, modernizing supply chain, marketing, financial management, product development, and more.My core strengths include:• Executive strategy and leadership• P&L / financial management• High Performance Team development• Marketing and branding• Operational controls• Supply Chain / Procurement • Business planning• Derivatives and commodities hedging• Risk management
Experience
Present
Education
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Executive Education - Creating and Managing Strategic Alliances
Harvard Business School Executive Education
Executive Education - Strategic Market Growth Innovation, Professor and Author Clayton Christensen
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering
University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship & International Studies
Skills
- Commodity Risk Management
- Procurement
- Strategy
- Forecasting
- Continuous Improvement
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Management
- Negotiation
- Supply Chain
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Food Industry
- Lean Management
- Supply Management
- Consumer Products
- Acquisition Integration
- Intellectual Property
- Business Development
- Procurement Contracts
- Patents
- Investments
- High Performance Teams
- Sap Implementation
- Commodity Markets
- Product Development
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