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Valerie Ashbaugh

Senior Vice President Global Engineering and Operations at McDonald's

Valerie talks about how digital systems enable agility, consistency, and customer-centric operations at scale. Drawing from deep experience across supply chain, engineering, and product delivery, she focuses on turning strategy into execution in high-speed, high-reliability environments.

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Valerie's profile blends enterprise systems thinking with a bias for action. She’s led global rollouts, modernised legacy infrastructure, and guided AI experimentation from prototype to production. At the core, she’s deeply invested in building strong teams and sustainable platforms that can evolve with the business.

business strategy
data engineering
data leadership
data strategy
data platform
product delivery
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With a background that bridges global consulting, aerospace manufacturing, and retail innovation, Valerie Ashbaugh brings a rare blend of technical depth and operational acumen. Her early years were spent driving large-scale ERP implementations and digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients, where she developed a systems view of how technology threads through supply chains, customer experience, and enterprise efficiency.

Over time, she moved into leadership roles within complex, high-velocity environments, managing end-to-end technology stacks that powered everything from product development to frontline retail execution. Whether scaling POS platforms across global markets or prototyping AI tools for real-time decision support, her work reflects a deep commitment to engineering excellence and scalable design.

Valerie is also a people-first leader, known for building distributed engineering teams and fostering a culture of cross-functional collaboration. Her teams have consistently delivered on both resilience and innovation, balancing infrastructure reliability with forward-looking experimentation.

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