Tom Henry

Data and technology at a family-owned grocer

Tom Henry is Chief Data and Information Officer at Schnuck Markets, the St. Louis grocer founded in 1939 and still family owned. A Schnucks release from July 2026 uses that title. The company promoted him to the role effective December 20, 2024, reporting to chairman and chief executive Todd Schnuck, after Bob Hardester, chief information and supply chain officer, announced his retirement. Henry had been chief data and deputy chief information officer.^[1][2][3]

From Express Scripts to Schnucks

He joined Schnucks in 2019 and, according to the company, led the development of its data and analytics organization, which provides insights to each business unit. Before that he worked at Express Scripts, where DataIQ's profile says he was chief data officer and led analytics strategy. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Missouri State University.^[1][4]

AI shopping assistant

In July 2026 Schnucks and VitalityIP announced an agentic shopping assistant offering personalized nutrition guidance, meal ideas and product recommendations in the Schnucks Rewards app and on schnucks.com, and Henry is named in that release. The companies say it was developed using real customer journeys and actual store inventory, that Schnucks keeps ownership of customer relationships and shopper data, and that its intelligence layer draws on more than six billion lines of shopping, health and nutrition data; those are company-reported claims. An August 2026 Schnucks release said the assistant covers meal planning, savings, cooking tips and food and wine pairings.^[2][5]

The business and his outside roles

Schnucks reports 112 stores in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and more than 11,000 teammates, and cites Forbes' 2025 ranking of the company as the 185th-largest privately owned U.S. company. Its site says it was the first grocer to deploy intelligent robots chainwide, in 2021. Grocery Dive wrote that it has for years been notable among regional grocers for its embrace of technology.^[2][3][6]

The 2024 release says he was named to CDO Magazine's Data Leaders 100 in 2023 and recognized by DataIQ in 2024 among the 100 most influential people in data and analytics in the United States. It also says he chairs the University of Missouri's Data Science Program industry advisory board and sits on the board of Washington University's Center for Analytics and Business Insights.^[1]

On The Executive List

Tom Henry is ranked No. 84 on The Executive List (November 2026) in the Chief Data Officers discipline. The ranking is The Executive Review's own editorial judgment (how we rank); it is not an outside award, and placement on the list is never sold. View the November 2026 edition.