Marc Carlson serves as the VP and Chief Information Officer for Land O’Lakes, Inc., where he manages the IT organization and focuses on optimizing operations and infrastructure, deploys new projects and manages relationships with IT suppliers. In this role, Marc helps translate the rapidly changing IT environment into strategies that help drive business outcomes. He’s focused on developing high-performing teams and strives to support employees’ success. Prior to this role, Marc served as the vice president and IT business lead for Land O’Lakes Dairy Foods, Purina, Supply Chain and Corporate. During this time, Marc’s responsibilities included building the technology roadmap, managing IT strategies and standards, delivering enterprise-wide technology platforms and managing the businesses IT budgets. Prior to joining Land O’Lakes in 2012, Marc spent nine years at Boston Scientific, including as the global senior IT Director for Clinical Science, R&D, Enterprise Architecture and the IT PMO. He led a diverse set of teams across the U.S., Europe, and Asia through successful execution of global technology strategies. Marc also has 10 years of management consulting experience. Marc holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University.