Dr. Carolina Pinart is the Group Head of R&D Information Technology at Nestlé, reporting to the Chief Information Officer (Head of IT) and at the same time part of the R&D ManCom chaired by Nestlé's Executive Board Member and Chief Technology Officer (Head of R&D). She is in charge of providing Nestlé's R&D function with IT capabilities and tech-enabled innovation to achieve purpose-driven innovation to deliver tasty, healthy and sustainable food and beverage products across all categories. In short, working on R&D and IT joining forces to leverage digital to enable Nestlé's mission.

As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future. We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland. Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020. Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category –offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.