William A. Singleton Iii, Cpp Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leads a team of +50 engineers spanning several regions, responsible for all Packaging development, including Innovation, Sustainability, Productivity, Brand Maintenance and Quality. Supporting Mars Wrigley businesses reaching +$XXB in Sales, with marquis brands such as Orbit, Extra, M&M’s, Snickers, as well as global Packaging innovation strategies and sustainability platforms for Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East-Africa. Driving innovation end-to-end from ideation to in market execution and scale.

Greater Chicago Area

1. Built an entirely new team focused on Packaging Sustainability, Packaging Development in Emerging Channels (i.e. E-commerce), and Data Analytics/Packaging Lab strategies. 2. Met Diversity & Inclusion goals of hiring elite talent from an interview pool of 50% female, 50% POC, and 50% origin outside of the US3. Direct team consists of: 5 Direct Reports, 20 Indirect Reports located in the EU, US, and China.

Greater Chicago Area

A newly created role with very high degrees of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity that leads a cross-functional team to develop a new competency for the organization -- business model innovation; the following responsibilities include:1. Charged with turning a seed investment of $800k into four businesses that can generate +$100m in revenue. 2. Defining and implementing a new business model incubation framework that complements the strategic plans of the core business. 3. Driving enterprise-wide engagement and collaboration in “Business Model Thinking” to generate new ideas and embed leading best practices. 4. Identifying companies, key partnerships, business models, and technologies of financial interest to Wrigley New Ventures for early, mid, and late stage investments to incubate radical/disruptive ideas5. Mapping investment trends and developing a pipeline of companies for partnership or acquisition6. Creating and cultivating the Wrigley New Ventures reputation, image and visibility both externally and within Mars, Inc. 7. Managing the R&D team that supports initiatives for the newly created e-commerce group. Speaking Engagements ** Speaker: Harvard Business School - Innovation Lab (Innovation Leader Conference), October 26, 2016 ** Speaker: Intrapreneurship World: Get Up to Speed, June 22, 2016, Chicago, IL** Speaker: 7th Process Driven Innovation: Creating New Intersections & Creative Niches to Drive Growth & Innovation Across the Enterprise, September 13, 2016, Philadelphia, PA** Panel Speaker: WeWork's "Innovate Like a Start-up"​ discussion panel, October 6, 2016

Greater Chicago Area

• Establish and lead the ongoing standardized reporting mechanisms of all New Product business activities; to be used as primary communication for the Global Executive Leadership Team , including:1. Global project pipeline sufficiency, including gap assessment of funding, resourcing, strategic goals, growth potential, strategic fit, risk management etc.2. Innovation portfolio characterization and status reporting (dashboard) across regions, key platforms, technologies and strategic growth centers.3. Oversight and analysis of portfolio to inform and influence key stakeholder discussions, including activity prioritization.4. The primary contact in the function for the status and nature of the Innovation activities of the business.5. Collaborate with Quality team to develop an audit program to help enforce and maintain controls across stage-gate discussions, portfolio reviews, and innovation tools.•Support the Global Executive Leadership Team and R&D function in the deployment and continuous improvement of the Wrigley Global Business Planning through the following:1. Lead global portfolio reviews for the Regional presidents and R&D heads.2. Lead portfolio team to provide expert analysis and feedback to key stakeholders on the current status of the innovation pipeline.3. Support development of the business plan through the identification, prioritization and sponsorship of new growth territories for future focus.•New Business Model Development1. Provide senior stakeholders with assessments and recommendations for potential growth strategies and plans, including investments, new business development, new business experimentation and product or technology development.2. Screen potential new business ideas by analyzing market strategies, growth potential, financials, technology; evaluating options and provide a senior stakeholder brief.•Innovation Program Change Management

Nashville, Tn

Developed and led enterprise-wide innovation strategic plans, associate forums, internal campaigns, and launched tools to help the NA business segment transform from being purely lean/executional to a more balanced learning organization. Worked within the Finance function reporting directly to the CFO.

Escalating responsibilities from packaging scientist to packaging team lead.

Greater Chicago Area

Tarrytown, New York

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Packaging Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Sigma, Clemson University Varsity Football, NSBE, CU Gospel Choir Developed educational and social.