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David Lestage is listed as Chief R&D Officer at Kellanova at Kellanova, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at pepsico.com, phone signal with area code 925, and a matched LinkedIn profile for David Lestage.
David Lestage previously worked as Global Chief R&D Officer at Kellanova and Founder at Free Run Investments. David Lestage holds Phd, Polymer Chemistry And Engineering from The University Of Southern Mississippi.
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Experienced executive with an entrepreneurial mindset, high adversity quotient, and proven success in domestic and international markets. Previous senior leadership positions in large consumer-oriented and startup environments. Currently Global Chief R&D Officer for Kellanova, a 118 year old startup destined to be the best performing snacks-led powerhouse in the industry. Former experience leading the R&D function for Kellogg Europe based in Ireland, PepsiCo Foods in the US, and PepsiCo Asia in China. Perpetual drive for market leadership through technical curiosity, international trends, open innovation and breakthrough technology. Passion for testing the unknown, inspiring talent to create and delighting the consumer in ways that are admirable, responsible, sustainable, and digital! Inspired by opportunities to drive change, elevate organizations and exceed ambitions through a leadership style focused on unlocking the potential of others. A firm believer that the health of a business is directly proportional to the health of its culture. Full stop.
Listed skills include R&D, Product Development, Chemistry, Cross Functional Team Leadership, and 46 others.
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Chicago, IL, US
Global Head of R&D accountable for achieving the corporate growth ambition through technical strategy, enablement, and shareholder return. Leadership in top and bottom line Innovation, holistic Sustainability, and the Wellbeing of people and planet. Focus in supporting business delivery regionally while building capability and culture globally.
Private Investment LLC
Battle Creek, Michigan, US
Senior leader for the Global R&D function focused on enterprise growth through strategic insights, technical unlocks and geographic expansion.
Purchase, New York, US
R&D senior leader for PepsiCo Foods (Frito-Lay and Quaker business units) driving innovation, brand stewardship, productivity and Operational Excellence initiatives across the ~$20B portfolio.
Purchase, New York, US
Accountabilities for site management, operations and employee health & safety in R&D HQ and Technology Process Center facilities (400+ associates). Led organization through pandemic onset, workplace reconfiguration and new site processes ensuring business continuity but also cultural health.
Purchase, New York, US
Chairman of the Board and Site Leader - PepsiCo Asia R&D CenterDriving pilot plant concepts, continuous improvement, resource allocation, employee empowerment and synchronous manufacturing operations across Snack, Beverage, Nutrition and Governance/Compliance categories.Unlocking strategic capabilities through evaluation of current operations to determine.
Purchase, New York, US
R&D Product Development lead for China, Asia-Pacific, Australia/New Zealand and Pakistan business units creating innovation, brand stewardship, process excellence and productivity agendas across 25+ markets. Based in Shanghai, China as head of the PepsiCo Asia R&D Center.Planning, organizing, staffing, training, and managing R&D functions to achieve sales.
Purchase, New York, US
Drove concepts to prototypes to shelf globally. Set global organizational architecture and strategic development/implementation of technical packaging programs in support of Marketing across Pepsico Snacks (Frito-Lay) and Nutrition (Quaker) categories. Led a global department responsible for Packaging Innovation across PepsiCo.
Purchase, New York, US
Driving profitable growth and market share gain for PepsiCo Global Snacks & Foods with a packaging strategy of innovation through design from consumer to customer. Identifying and translating market trends and customer needs into the creation of ideas, actionable goals and commercializing innovations that create a competitive advantage. Positively leading.
Purchase, New York, US
Developing the FLNA Packaging innovation strategy, driving pipeline diversity across the brand portfolio and leading employee engagement in ideation, creating a culture of innovation. Establishing packaging parameters, financial requirements and validation checkpoints for new ventures, products and markets with regional, national and global impact.
Purchase, New York, US
Responsible for driving innovation to support Frito-Lay North America's $14B snack portfolio, lead exploratory initiatives to identify, design and validate future growth opportunities and seed new packaging initiatives that provide strategic fit to the organization in terms of structural attractiveness, core strengths, competitive position, market/consumer.
Oakland, CA, US
Identifying and assessing cross-industry technologies for application in new products for the Clorox portfolio. Rapidly mining IP landscape and developing proof-of-principle concepts for consumer evaluation and business proposition development.
Silicon Valley Cleantech startup. Recruited to build an R&D organization geared towards development, validation, scale and quality control of a patented supercritical production process for biodiesel. Overcame challenges rooted in feedstock, catalyst and sulfur chemistries enabling benchtop, pilot and commercial scale processes producing 1MM gallons B100.
Oakland, CA, US
With a primary objective to develop the next "Ah ha!", invented internal and integrated external technologies for development of novel prototypes for the Cleaning Division of Clorox. From chargeable Fresh Care towels to GreenWorks surface cleaners, formulated and commercialized multiple new products with defensible IP positioning.
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David Lestage works for Kellanova.
David Lestage is listed as Chief R&D Officer at Kellanova at Kellanova.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @pepsico.com for David Lestage at Kellanova.
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David Lestage is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States while working with Kellanova.
David Lestage has worked for Kellanova, Free Run Investments, Kellogg Company, Pepsico, and The Clorox Company.
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David Lestage holds Phd, Polymer Chemistry And Engineering from The University Of Southern Mississippi.
David Lestage is listed with skills including R&D, Product Development, Chemistry, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Strategy, Commercialization, Polymers, and Consumer Products.
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