Victoria B. Mars

Victoria B. Mars
Education	Foxcroft School
Alma mater	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Yale University
Occupation	Businesswoman, philanthropist
Parent(s)	Forrest Mars, Jr. Virginia Cretella

Victoria B. Mars is an American heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist. She previously served as the Chairman of Mars, Incorporated.

Victoria B. Mars is a fourth generation member of the Mars family. She is the daughter of Forrest Mars, Jr. and Virginia Cretella. Her paternal great-grandfather, Franklin Clarence Mars, founded Mars, Incorporated in 1911. Her paternal great-grandmother, Ethel V. Mars, was a horsebreeder at Milky Way Farm in Giles County, Tennessee.

She was educated at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, from which she graduated in 1974. She graduated from Yale University. She earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.

She started her career working for Mars, Incorporated in Haguenau, France in 1978, where she served as Assistant Brand Manager for Milky Way, followed by Export Manager. In 1984, she served as Director of the Marine Systems Division of Mars Electronics International. Two years later, in 1986, she was appointed Vice President of S&F, Commercial, and People and Organization for Dove in Burr Ridge, Illinois near Chicago. A decade later, in 1997, she was appointed Ombudsman at Mars, Incorporated. She was still serving in that position in 2013.

She has served on the Board of Directors of Mars, Incorporated since 2006. Eight years later, in April 2014, she was appointed as its Chairman, replacing Stephen M. Badger. She was a keynote speaker at the 2014 annual conference organized by Great Place to Work, a non-profit organization which promotes employee well-being.

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