Barron Witherspoon

Barron Witherspoon, Sr. is a VP in global operations at P&G.  He works across all functions and geographies in his current capacity, and is located at the company’s worldwide headquarters in Ohio, USA.

Previously, he was VP and General Manager, Customer Business Development for Procter and Gamble’s Southern Asia business, responsible for all the company’s customer-facing operations in ASEAN (Southeast Asia), Australasia and India from 2003 to 2008.  Based in Singapore, he worked across many countries to grow P&G’s business in a trading environment of over seven millions retails outlets – the highest store concentration in the world.  His region served a third of the world’s consumers.

Mr. Witherspoon joined Procter and Gamble’s general advertising department in 1985 and held numerous line and staff positions in marketing and customer business development.

Mr. Witherspoon was a college exchange student in Konstanz, Germany and has earned degrees in education from Brevard College in Florida and in Economics from Tuskegee University.

He is a licensed and ordained minister and leads a ministry in Cross Cultural worship. He has held numerous board positions including the positions of Chairman, ECR Asia Board, and Chairman, Board of Elders at Singapore Baptist Church.