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Board of Directors

As a private, family-owned company, Mars, Incorporated is governed by a Board of Directors. The Directors are members of the Mars family. The Mars Board of Directors receives independent advice from four external Board Advisors.  

Management Team

Mars, Incorporated is run by a global management team led by President and CEO Paul S. Michaels. The company’s management team brings a wealth of experience to bear in its oversight of the day-to-day operations of the business across six business segments: Petcare, Chocolate, Food, Wrigley, Drinks and Symbioscience. Mars has aligned its global leadership structure with these business segments in an effort to continue to grow and sustain improvement in company performance.

Members of the Mars, Incorporated Management Team include:

Paul S. Michaels

President and CEO

Olivier Goudet

Executive Vice President and CFO

Aileen Richards

Vice President, Personnel and Organization

Richard Ware

Vice President, Supply, Research & Development and Procurement

Alberto Mora

Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel

David Kamenetzky

Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Pierre Laubies

President, Petcare

Grant Reid

President, Chocolate

Martin Radvan

President, Wrigley

Poul Weihrauch

President, Food

Frank Mars

President, Symbioscience

Mars Global Advisors

The Mars Global Advisors are an advisory-only group of external experts who engage the senior management of Mars, Incorporated in strategic dialogues regarding major public policy, geopolitical, and macroeconomic issues and trends, and how they affect business strategies and priorities.

Members of the Mars Global Advisors group include:

Rosanna Wong

Executive Director of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups

Gurcharan Das 

Author and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India

Moises Naim

Columnist and commentator on globalization, international politics and economics

Alan Milburn

Former Member of U.K. Parliament for Darlington and U.K. Secretary of State for Health

David Kessler

Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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