DALLAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Kimberly-Clark Company (NYSE: KMB) introduced the appointment of Zack Hicks within the newly created function of Chief Digital and Know-how Officer, efficient July 26, 2022. He’s a member of the corporate’s govt management crew.
This function displays Kimberly-Clark’s rising concentrate on digital expertise in constructing manufacturers and creating differentiated functionality for the corporate.
Hicks joins the corporate after 26 years of management at Toyota Motors North America and Toyota Motor Gross sales, USA, the place he held quite a few positions of accelerating accountability.
His most up-to-date roles embrace serving as CEO of Toyota Linked, a startup working as the corporate’s information science hub connecting automobiles, clients and companies via machine studying and synthetic intelligence. Hicks additionally served as Chief Digital Officer of Toyota Motors North America, main the corporate’s digital transformation and mobility efforts, together with in-vehicle multimedia methods, automobile connectivity, cloud, electrification and autonomous driving applied sciences.
“Zack brings to Kimberly-Clark vital expertise in expertise innovation, operations and crew management,” mentioned Mike Hsu, Chairman and CEO, Kimberly-Clark. “He is the correct chief to assist us leverage the complete potential of expertise to speed up the subsequent section of our progress technique for long-term worth creation.”
Amongst his achievements at Toyota, Hicks led the North American and European growth of in-vehicle multimedia, together with {hardware}, software program and cloud to realize best-in-class consumer expertise. He additionally patented breakthroughs in digital options, together with an industry-leading large information platform to ship predictive analytics and related retail companies.
“Kimberly-Clark has a transparent imaginative and prescient for leveraging expertise to drive progress,” mentioned Hicks. “I am excited to work with the crew to convey collectively sturdy functionality and next-generation expertise options to assist the corporate proceed to win as we speak and place us nicely for the long run.”
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted manufacturers are an indispensable a part of life for folks in additional than 175 nations. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of individuals’s most important wants, we create merchandise that assist people expertise extra of what is essential to them. Our portfolio of manufacturers, together with Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Rely, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, maintain No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in roughly 80 nations. We use sustainable practices that assist a wholesome planet, construct sturdy communities, and guarantee our enterprise thrives for many years to come back. To maintain up with the most recent information and to study extra concerning the firm’s 150-year historical past of innovation, go to kimberly-clark.com.
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