Speaker Details
Rand Waddoups
Senior Director of Sustainability, Wal-Mart
Rand Waddoups is the senior director of business strategy and sustainability at Walmart. In this role, he works with a small team to build sustainability into every part of Walmart's global business strategy. They are doing this by focusing on three aspirational goals: 1) to have zero waste, 2) to use 100% renewable energy, and 3) to bring sustainable products to our customers.
Before working in sustainability, he spent several years as a buyer/category manager where he worked on a broad spectrum of food products; from frozen Brussels sprouts to flaming-hot cheese puffs. As a buyer, Walmart recognized him as a Buyer of the Year and the food manufacturing community voted him one of the nation's Top 5 Buyers of Frozen and Refrigerated Food.
Rand is a father of two, a husband, and an active youth leader. He has a background in public service including two years in the Philippines. Additionally, he has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas and an undergraduate in Economics from Brigham Young University.