Kathryn Wengel

Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Operations and Risk Officer Johnson & Johnson

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Kathryn Wengel is Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Operations and Risk Officer of Johnson & Johnson, a role she has held since 2023 on the company’s executive committee. She runs engineering and property services, sustainability and cross-company supply chain standards, along with the risk functions of quality and compliance, health care compliance, global security and brand protection. A J&J employee since 1988, when she started as a project engineer at Janssen, she became the company’s first chief quality officer and then spent nine years as chief global supply chain officer. She sits on the boards of Labcorp and the National Association of Manufacturers. Her nearly four decades at J&J have been spent in engineering, quality and supply chain rather than in commercial roles.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Operations and Risk Officer of J&J since 2023.
• Chief Global Supply Chain Officer for nine years and an executive committee member from 2018.
• J&J’s first Chief Quality Officer.
• Director of Labcorp, the National Association of Manufacturers and GS1 Global.
• Elected to the Supply Chain Hall of Fame in 2019.

Professional Journey

Wengel earned a BSE in civil engineering and operations research at Princeton University. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 1988 as a project engineer and engineering supervisor at Janssen and went on to hold leadership roles in operations, quality, engineering, new products and information technology, among other technical and business functions.

She became the company’s first chief quality officer and then its chief global supply chain officer, a role she held for nine years, joining the executive committee in 2018 as executive vice president. J&J says that under her leadership it has held a top-five position on Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 ranking. In 2019 the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals gave her its Distinguished Service Award and elected her to the Supply Chain Hall of Fame, and in 2015 she received a Women of Excellence Award from the National Association of Female Executives.

In 2023 she became executive vice president, chief technical operations and risk officer, responsible for engineering and property services, the global sustainability organization, cross-sector supply chain teams for standards, services, transportation and trade controls, and the risk functions of quality and compliance, health care compliance, global security and global brand protection.

Outside J&J she is a director of Labcorp, the National Association of Manufacturers and GS1 Global, the standards body behind barcodes. Inside the company she is executive sponsor of the Women’s Leadership & Inclusion initiative and of WiSTEM2D, a program encouraging women in science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design.

By start date she is the longest-serving member of J&J’s executive committee, having joined in 1988, a year before chief executive Joaquin Duato.

Education

Princeton University

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Civil Engineering and Operations Research