Glenn Allison

Glenn Allison is Vice President of AI Platforms at Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the U.S. with more than 2,300 stores and 52,000 Team Members. He leads the company’s enterprise-wide AI and cloud strategy, overseeing AI and ML platforms, the TSC & Me AI Platform, LLMOps and MLOps engineering, data engineering and governance, cloud platforms, hybrid infrastructure, data centers, merchandising systems, product information management, and key enterprise applications across Finance, Legal, Real Estate, and HR.

Under Glenn’s leadership, Tractor Supply partnered with OpenAI to responsibly scale generative AI across the organization, equipping all 52,000 Team Members with AI-powered tools that enhance productivity, improve decision-making, and strengthen customer engagement. These efforts support the company’s Life Out Here 2030 strategy and have positioned Tractor Supply as a leader in enterprise AI. The company has received honors including the 2026 RETHINK Retail AI Leader designation, the 2025 Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT, and the 2024 CIO 100 Award.

Prior to Tractor Supply, Glenn held technology leadership roles at Kellogg Company, where he helped modernize global supply chains, and at W.W. Grainger, one of the largest eCommerce retailers in the U.S.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Master of Science in Information Technology from Northwestern University. Glenn serves on several industry councils, including the CNBC Technology Executive Council and NRF’s AI Working Group, and was named to the Nashville Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.”