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As a private, family-owned company, Mars, Incorporated is governed by a Board of Directors. The Directors are members of the Mars family.
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 Gum and Confections, 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 |
| Pierre Laubies | President, Petcare |
| Grant Reid | President, Chocolate |
| Dushan Petrovich | President, Wrigley Gum and Confections |
| Brian Camastral | President, Food |
| Martin Radvan | President, Mars Drinks and Developing Petcare |
| Frank Mars | President, Symbioscience |
Mars, Incorporated also seeks input from outside advisors on issues of importance to its business. 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 |
| Paul Volcker | Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System |
| Luis Rubio | Chairman of the Center of Research for Development, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Thomas Pickering | Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Ambassador to Russia, India, Nigeria, and the United Nations |
| 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 |
| Philip Gould | Member of the U.K. House of Lords and former advisor to U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair |
| Frank Akers | Co-Chair of the Mars Scientific Advisory Council (MSAC), and former Associate Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
