Jeff Kent

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

Jeff is the Technical 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 been establishing Smart Platform Systems 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 29 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.  He was a 2014 recipient of the P&G’s PRISM Award and has been awarded 8 patents in the field of High-Speed Assembled Products Quality Inspections and Control Systems.