Jeff Hutchinson is the North American Chief Information Officer for Groupe Danone, and a member of The Dannon Company’s executive committee.   The Dannon Company is a division of Groupe Danone, with headquarters in Paris, France, it is a $14.5B euro manufacturer of fresh dairy products, bottled water & beverages, baby food, and clinical nutrition. With health & nutrition at the core of its strategy.

You may be familiar with several of the Groupe Danone business units in North America; Dannon yogurt, Evian water, and Stonyfield yogurt   In addition, Jeff leads Dannon’s Strategic Programs Office, a recently created cross-functional team of senior program and project managers.

Mr. Hutchinson has over 25 years of diversified and unique experience in business, IS/IT and consulting roles.  He has a proven track record of leveraging and driving innovation, process improvements and organizational enhancements to obtain strategic business value (especially in SAP enabled environments).  Both in his current role at Groupe Danone and while working with North America and European clients during his prior consulting career as a Partner with Accenture.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration for Bryant University, and MBA from the University of New Haven, and Masters of Science in Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently a Doctoral student  in Computing, Pace University class of 2010.

In addition to his family, his profession, and education, Jeff believes strongly in community service.  However, his community service is one you don’t want to see.  For Jeff is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), teaches Incident Command Systems (ICS) to fire, police and rescue departments and is a national ski patroller.  Jeff has a federal appointment with the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT).  His DMAT team was the one who responded to the Super Dome after Hurricane Katrina.   I assume he has some interesting stories to tell.

Jeff favorite quote is by John F. Kennedy.  “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”

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