Kristina Adent is the Head of Global Sourcing & Procurement at PayPal, where she leads the company’s enterprise-wide sourcing and procurement strategies while spearheading a full-scale transformation across its multi-billion-dollar ecosystem. A former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer and West Point graduate, Kristina brings a rare combination of discipline, courage, and strategic clarity to every challenge she takes on.

Kristina is also obsessed with AI—not as a buzzword, but as a practical force multiplier. She has already introduced multiple AI-driven solutions at PayPal, either by elevating ideas from her team or personally building prototypes and partnering with IT to bring them to life. Her hands-on approach to innovation pushes her organization to think bigger, move faster, and embrace intelligent automation with purpose.

Over the course of her career, she has established and rebuilt world-class sourcing organizations focused on strategic supplier partnerships and value creation, as well as procurement organizations that drive operational excellence, efficiency, and governance. She has led high-stakes negotiations and guided teams through complex change at companies including Abbott, Visa, SunPower, Campari, and Procter & Gamble. She is known for turning chaos into strategy, silos into collaboration, and suppliers into true strategic partners—not just vendors.

On stage, Kristina speaks with candor, energy, and conviction—grounding her message in real stories from the front lines of leadership, transformation, and invention. Her mission is simple: empower people and organizations to lead boldly, embrace intelligent innovation, and operate with the resilience needed to thrive in an unpredictable world.