{"id":15288,"date":"2025-10-16T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=15288"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:02:49","slug":"demand-chain-ai-hires-layden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/demand-chain-ai-hires-layden\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand Chain AI Hires Layden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demand Chain AI, a provider of intelligent supply chain planning and data solutions, has appointed Larry Layden as Chief Customer Officer (CCO).<\/p>\n<p>Layden will oversee sales strategy and revenue growth, helping expand the company\u2019s market presence across key industries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15289\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Larry-Layden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Larry-Layden.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Larry-Layden-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Layden will oversee sales strategy and revenue growth.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Layden brings more than 30 years of leadership in operations, supply chain, and customer success. He was a founding leader in Demand Sensing, establishing it as a widely adopted global capability, and has advanced digital manufacturing and composable supply chain solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored to welcome Larry to our leadership team,\u201d said Rick Davis, CEO and Founder of Demand Chain AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis combination of supply chain expertise and sales leadership will accelerate our growth while ensuring customers achieve measurable results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to join Demand Chain AI at such a pivotal time,\u201d said Larry Layden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizations are seeking partners who can deliver real impact, and I look forward to helping more companies unlock the value of our services and solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15290\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15290\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35.png 572w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35-400x263.png 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35-350x230.png 350w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35-440x289.png 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-13.00.35-494x325.png 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Layden brings more than 30 years of leadership in operations, supply chain, and customer success.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With Layden\u2019s appointment, Demand Chain AI reinforces its commitment to growth and customer success across industries including CPG, food and beverage, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>He has held senior roles at Kyndryl, UCBOS, Savigent (now Symphony AI), Terra Technology (now e2Open), Capgemini, IBM, PwC and EY and partnered with top global companies including Procter &amp; Gamble, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Shell, Cargill, Bayer, Kellogg\u2019s and General Mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand Chain AI, a provider of intelligent supply chain planning and data solutions, has appointed Larry Layden as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Layden will oversee sales strategy and revenue growth, helping expand the company\u2019s market presence across key industries. Layden brings more than 30 years of leadership in operations, supply chain, and customer success. He&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/demand-chain-ai-hires-layden\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[3454,12955,12949,12954,12942,12948,12956,6896,3028,12953,12944,12943,157,106,12951,12950,12946,224,62,12947,12945,12952],"class_list":["post-15288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-ai","tag-bayer","tag-capgemini","tag-cargill","tag-demand-chain-ai","tag-e2open","tag-general-mills","tag-ibm","tag-kelloggs","tag-kimberly-clark","tag-kyndryl","tag-larry-layden","tag-logistics","tag-material-handling","tag-procter-gamble","tag-pwc","tag-savigent","tag-shell","tag-supply-chain","tag-terra-technology","tag-ucbos","tag-unilever"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Demand Chain AI Hires Layden - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/demand-chain-ai-hires-layden\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Demand Chain AI Hires Layden - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Demand Chain AI, a provider of intelligent supply chain planning and data solutions, has appointed Larry Layden as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). 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