Christian A. Brickman, President, Kimberly-Clark International

Mr. Brickman is President of Kimberly-Clark International (KCI). In this capacity, Mr. Brickman leads the company's fast growing international consumer businesses in all operations outside of North America and Western Europe. He’s charged with focusing the business on achieving exceptional growth in Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East/Eastern Europe/Africa, by delivering essential products and game-changing innovations that matters to our consumers around the world.

Prior to being appointed to his current role, Mr. Brickman served as President of Kimberly-Clark Professional – a business of approximately $3 billion in sales, beginning in 2010. This business sector is focused on creating exceptional workplaces for business-to-business (B2B) customers. It sells a range of products and services including commercial tissue and wipers, skin care, safety and Do-It-Yourself materials.

Mr. Brickman joined Kimberly-Clark in 2008 as Chief Strategy Officer and has played a key role in the development and implementation of the company’s strategic plans and processes to enhance Kimberly-Clark’s enterprise growth initiatives.

Prior to joining Kimberly-Clark, Mr. Brickman was a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Dallas, Texas, office and a leader in the firm’s consumer packaged goods and operations practices. His consulting experience includes a broad mix of strategy, organization and operations projects for leading global packaged goods companies.

Before joining McKinsey, Mr. Brickman was President and CEO of Whitlock Packaging (1998-2001), the largest non-carbonated beverage co-packaging company in the United States. From 1994 through 1998 he was with Guinness/United Distillers, initially as Vice President of Strategic Planning for the Americas region and then as General Manager for Guinness Brewing Worldwide’s Latin America region. His previous experiences included serving as Managing Consultant for CSC Index Consulting and as Marketing Director for Aspartame at the NutraSweet Company (1988-1993). In 1986, Mr. Brickman began his career with the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago.

Mr. Brickman was awarded an advanced bachelor’s degree in economics in 1986 from Occidental College in Los Angeles where he graduated with honors, Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude.