Victor Perrine: From Bananas to $Billions

Victor (Viko) Perrine is the Global Director of New Growth Initiatives at Circle K. Prior to that, he’s held senior leadership roles at Delek US Holdings and at UGP Inc. 

In this episode, Viko describes a major new initiative called Lift that’s unique to Circle K, which just launched in Europe, plus future development plans for that. Building on this, he describes the day-to-day for a global innovation leadership role, and he shares the success factors that help him to identify good target projects for innovation and growth. He also describes a project from earlier in his career that used lidar and computer vision to count banana trees on a 6,000 acre planation in the Philippines, which was the first time that had ever been done in that country. And with all this as context, he concludes with actionable tips for people who’d like to get the nod for leadership roles in innovation.