Cheryl A. Perkins is Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Kimberly-Clark. Reporting to the CEO, Cheryl is responsible for the corporate innovation organization and the enterprise growth function. She provides visionary leadership to identify and transform insights, designs, emerging technologies and capabilities into total solutions and new businesses through internal development, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, alliances and by leveraging information technologies.

Cheryl leads and has responsibility for the company’s innovation and growth organizations. She oversees the development of strategies and total solutions aimed at maintaining competitive advantages across businesses and ensure long term growth. Cheryl leads the development and utilization of intellectual assets in delivering a continuum of innovative solutions and provides major advances in K-C’s core technologies.

Cheryl earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983. She earned a master’s degree in Polymers from the Chemical Engineering Department of Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989. Before joining Kimberly-Clark in 1984 as a Researcher in Roswell, Ga., Cheryl was with Smith-Kline Laboratories in Atlanta where she was involved in work on cancerous tissue testing and identification.

Cheryl joined the Board of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) in 2006. She serves on the board of directors of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and the Fox Cities Children’s Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Technology Council, and the Georgia Institute of Technology External Advisory Board for Textile and Fiber Engineering. In 2000, Cheryl was selected as a Georgia Institute of Technology Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni.