Brian Walker, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer for Grainger, will share Grainger’s journey to adopting AI at Distribution Strategy Group’s Applied AI for Distributors conference June 4-6 in Chicago.
Walker leads the prioritization of Grainger’s technology investments, including Grainger’s digital platforms, mobile solutions and the industry-leading Grainger.com.
Walker has held many roles of increasing responsibility at Grainger. Most recently, Walker served in technology innovation capacities including Vice President, Digital Architecture and Operations and President of Gamut.com.
Before that, while headquartered in London, England, he served as Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Grainger’s Online Business with operations in Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. Walker also has led teams responsible for corporate strategy, merchandising and pricing for the Grainger U.S. Business. He joined Grainger in September 2006 as Purchasing Manager.
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Before joining Grainger, Walker led teams in warehousing, logistics, supply chain and sales operations at McMaster-Carr Supply Company.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wesleyan University, a master’s degree in Applied Statistics from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Walker serves on the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Board Chair Executive Council and is on the Board of Advisors for IIT’s Institute of Design. He has served as a founding board member for Wesleyan’s Quantitative Analysis Center and is a current member of Wesleyan’s President’s Council. Brian also is a Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University for their CIO and CDigitalO programs.
W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a $16.5 billion leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom.
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