Mark Chaffin

Chief Information Officer, Flowers Foods

Mark Chaffin , the CIO of Flowers Foods is a senior technology executive with significant experience in IT strategy, IT Operations, analytics, and application development. He has served as CIO and business partner to consumer products, marketing services, logistics and financial services companies. He is able to deliver technology solutions that drive profitable growth and engage the workforce. He has led process improvement, technology commercialization, enterprise data strategy, and robotic automation initiatives from design through deployment. He is skilled in technology diligence and integration efforts through work on over 70 acquisitions. He is advisor to executives and coach to teams during modernization of IT operations while maintaining high levels of service and user support. Before joining Flowers, Chaffin was a partner in Fortium Partners' Southeast practice, focusing on IT strategy, business process improvement, technology commercialization and analytics. He previously served as CIO at sgsco, a global package and brand design and marketing company and was CIO of Acosta Sales and Marketing in Jacksonville, Fla.