Whitney Kakos is the Director of Supply Chain Sustainability at Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP). She leads the development of appropriate policies, strategies and partnerships for KDP to play a proactive role in promoting equitable and sustainable supply chains across its business. With strong roots at the intersection of sustainability and coffee, first at UK-based Cafédirect and then Keurig Dr Pepper, she now leads KDP’s efforts to balance risk management with deeper, long-term impact work within the diverse supply chains under the KDP umbrella. Recent work includes a focus regenerative agriculture and conservation within KDP’s apple, corn and coffee supply chains. Whitney has a MSC in Environmental Policy from LSE and is based in Boston, MA.