Jeff Kent

Jeff Kent
Vice President, Smart Platforms, Technology & Innovation
Procter & Gamble

Jeff is the Vice President for Smart Platforms, Technology & Innovation for Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Global Engineering organization.  In this entrepreneurial leadership role, he is responsible for driving a step change in capabilities, adoption, and value creation from Manufacturing Intelligence, Connected Process, Equipment & Materials Assets, and Connected Operations.  Jeff has established Smart Platforms as an extension of P&G’s already successful global process and equipment platforms.  In leading this digital transformation strategic focus area, Jeff is organizing capabilities, applications, architectures, use cases, and people to exploit Industry 4.0 technologies to create the next S-Curve from intelligent systems and operations. Jeff has 28 years of experience at P&G and the U.S. Air Force in key capability areas such as digital quality assurance, high-speed quality control systems, industrial automation, imaging & sensing, test & evaluation, and systems engineering.