Christopher Gantz

Senior Manager Digital Systems, The Hershey Company

With over 30 years of experience in a variety of engineering, IT, and manufacturing leadership roles, Chris leads manufacturing systems architecture and strategy for Industry 4.0 at The Hershey Company. During his tenure at Hershey, Chris has established cutting-edge digital manufacturing capabilities while leading the convergence of IT and OT systems.

Embracing agile methodologies, Chris has been able to establish the latest in modern MES/MOM, IIOT, Unified Namespace, Industrial Data Fabric, Digital Worker, and Advanced Analytics technologies.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University with specialization in Computer Engineering.