From Belgian chocolate to wasabi Oreos, Dirk Van de Put has built a career around the particulars of taste. At Mondelēz, his bet is that a global business grows when people closer to the shopper get more say.
After decades learning why people buy, Irene Rosenfeld made a different calculation: why keep two businesses together? The 2012 Kraft split put her in charge of Mondelēz and gave a familiar cupboard of brands a new corporate shape.

From Oreo's real-time swagger to Kenvue's digital shelf, Jonathan Halvorson has built a career around one deceptively hard brief: make global marketing more personal without making it creepy, generic or needlessly complicated.