• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Joy Carter

Nestle Purina PetCare

Chief Procurement Officer

Joy Carter serves as the Chief Procurement Officer at Nestlé Purina PetCare leading a team focused on sourcing, procurement and supply chain and inventory management for the company’s vast portfolio of trusted pet care products. She has a proven track record of expertise and excellence, from ensuring that Purina suppliers, and the ingredients and materials they provide, meet the company’s best-in-class quality standards to managing inventory needs across a network of 23 U.S. factories. Joy started her career at Purina in 2001 at the company’s Oklahoma City pet food factory and subsequently held various positions of increasing responsibility at Purina’s Davenport, Iowa factory and St. Louis headquarters. She became Vice President and Head of Procurement in 2018 and earned her current role as Chief Procurement Officer and a key member of Purina’s leadership team in 2021. Joy has a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business and a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arkansas. She lives in St. Louis with her dog “Teeny,” a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.

Sessions With Joy Carter

Thursday, 21 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    Balancing the Appetite for Food AND Fuel
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    As the demand for biofuel grows, the agriculture and feedstock industries have started to gear up to meet the new demand and balance it with on-going food consumption which has and continues to be the major market for agricultural products. Balancing food and fuel have brought a wave of expansion for vegetable oil production, redirected trade flows of fats and grease, driven a new era of innovation to expand feedstock output and lowered the carbon footprint of agricultural products for food and biofuels. How are the agriculture, food and biofuel sectors balancing the appetite for multiple agricultural products?