Steve Presley

CEO, Nestlé North America
Steve Presley is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé North America, the company's largest market.

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During his tenure as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé North America, Steve Presley has overseen a strategic portfolio transformation that helped turn the company into an engine for growth. Under his leadership, the company has sought to make progress on its journey to achieve net zero emissions, including efforts to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture in its ingredient supply chain, expand renewable energy use in its facilities and design its packaging for recyclability.

Presley began his career with Nestlé 26 years ago as a controller for the beverage factory in Suffolk, Virginia and has held various roles in finance and management across his tenure, including Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

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Session 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 tackled some of the knottier issues related to climate change — from the massive amount of money needed to finance the global green transition, to the struggle for energy access in developing nations and the ecosystem effects of fast fashion — and offered glimpses of the world-changing solutions […]

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