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Aswin Krishnan is senior vice president, Corporate and Financial Services for Starbucks. In this role, Aswin is responsible for leading business integration, global shared services, workplace solutions, business transformation, and accounting and ensuring the integrity of internal and external financial reporting. Promoted to his role in March 2022, he reports directly to Starbucks chief financial officer.
Aswin joined Starbucks in June 2019 as vice president of Shared Services, leading the design and delivery of shared services for partner resources, customer service, retail, store development, supply chain, technology and finance.
Aswin’s career journey spans multiple businesses, functions and geographies across start-up, growth and turnaround environments. He is passionate about championing inclusion, diversity and equity and attracting and developing talent to create high-performance cultures. He has experience in strategy development, P&L management, creating and deploying operating models, innovating products and technologies to deliver world class customer and employee experiences, building and scaling global operations and leading global enterprise-wide change initiatives for several Fortune 100 organizations.
Prior to joining Starbucks, Aswin worked for Amazon from 2017-2019, leading worldwide vendor and brand operations and overseeing a global team in their delivery of world-class experiences and services. During his tenure with Liberty Mutual Insurance from 2009-2016, he was promoted to senior vice president of strategic services and led a global customer and operational excellence transformation. Prior to Liberty, Aswin was at The Hartford where he held leadership positions spanning multiple businesses and functions, including an international expatriate leadership assignment in Japan.
Aswin holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) in Mumbai, India and an MBA from Virginia Tech. He has also completed the Strategic Leadership program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Coaching for Leadership Impact program at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Aswin’s journey started in India, and over the years, he has lived in Virginia, Tokyo, Connecticut and Seattle. He enjoys playing and watching tennis, attending music festivals, and traveling with family and friends to experience new cultures and foods. His favorite Starbucks beverage is a Nitro Cold Brew.
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Starbucks ethically sources and roasts high-quality arabica coffee. They are known as the leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffee globally. Starbucks purchases, roasts, and serves award-winning coffee to its millions of customers. Their food and beverage offerings include Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, seasonal drinks, hot breakfast, lunch, snacks, a bakery, and premium teas. Additionally, they sell merchandise like tumblrs and mugs as well as gift cards for special occasions. In some stores around the world, they sell alcoholic drinks. In everything they do, they always live by their mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time. Founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, Starbucks began as a single store front in Pike Place Market. Originally, they sourced their beans from Peet's Coffee & Tea. Eventually, Alfred Peet stopped supplying his own beans and began to train a new Roastmaster for the company. Following this transition, they sold the company in the 1980's to Howard Schultz who had Italian Coffeehouse aspirations. Originally a coffee bean store, Howard set out to make Starbucks an espresso-based coffeeshop and led much of the expansion of the franchise. With shifts in leadership over time, a decade was spent growing market share and defining corporate social responsibility. Starbucks went on acquire several operations as part of their strategy such as Seattle's Best Coffee, Torrefazione Italia, and The Coffee Connection. Today, Starbucks operates in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia with about 32,000 stores worldwide.