Pamela Mars-Wright

{{Short description|American businesswoman and billionaire heiress}}

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| name = Pamela Mars-Wright

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| birth_name = Pamela Diane Mars

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}}

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| nationality = American

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| alma mater = Vassar College

| occupation = Businesswoman

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| spouse = Lonnie Wright

| family = Mars family

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Pamela Diane Mars-Wright (née Mars;{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/03/style/weddings-pamela-mars-lonnie-wright.html |title= Weddings; Pamela Mars, Lonnie Wright|author=|date=1993 |website=The New York Times, nytimes.com|accessdate=April 28, 2018}} born 1960){{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/pamela-marswright/ |title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Pamela Mars-Wright|author=|date= |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |accessdate=June 12, 2021}} is an American businesswoman and billionaire heiress.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/pamela-mars/?list=billionaires|title=296. Pamela Mars|author=|date=March 6, 2018 |website=Forbes, forbes.com |accessdate=April 28, 2018}} Previously, she was the chairman of the board of Mars Inc. She is a supervisory board member of Dutch brewing company Heineken International.{{cite web|url=http://www.theheinekencompany.com/media/media-releases/press-releases/2016/03/1992146|title=Heineken N.V. to nominate Mrs. Pamela Mars-Wright and Mrs. Yonca Brunini as Supervisory Board members|author=|date=March 7, 2016 |website=theheinekencompany.com|accessdate=April 28, 2018}}

Mars-Wright is a fourth generation member of the Mars family. Her father was Forrest Mars Jr. (1931–2016). She has three sisters: Marijke Mars, Valerie Mars and Victoria B. Mars.{{cite web|title= Forrest E. Mars Jr., enigmatic steward of family confectionery, dies at 84 |work= washingtonpost.com |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/forrest-e-mars-jr-enigmatic-steward-of-family-confectionery-dies-at-84/2016/07/27/0265c442-5400-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html | author= Emily Langer| date= July 27, 2016 |accessdate=2018-04-28}} She inherited about 8 percent stake of Mars Inc. in 2016, which made her a billionaire. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, her net worth was valued worth of $11.5 billion as of June 2021.

Mars-Wright attended the elite Foxcroft School for girls.{{Cite web |title=Foxcroft Receives a Sweet Gift from Mars Family |url=https://issuu.com/uncoveringthevalley/docs/cz_layout_winter2023issuu/s/18511021 |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=Issuu |language=en}} Mars-Wright graduated (BA/BSc) from Vassar College. She has held several roles within Mars Inc. She started as an operations supervisor in 1986, then she became plant director manager at the company's petcare factory followed by a position as manufacturing director at Mars Australia. After a sabbatical she joined Mars Inc. as a member of the board of directors in 2001 and served also as the chairman of the board (2004–2008).{{cite web|url=http://www.campdenfb.com/article/world-exclusive-pamela-mars-wright-life-mars-inc|title=World exclusive: Pamela Mars-Wright on life at Mars, Inc|author=Marc Smith|publisher= Campden Wealth, campdenfb.com|date=October 6, 2008|accessdate=2018-04-28}} She was a board member of Mars Inc. also in 2015 and was promoting sustainability.{{cite web|url=http://www.mars.com/portugal/en/press-center/press-list/news-releases.aspx?SiteId=94&Id=6736|title=Pamela Mars-Wright: "I want to leave a sustainable planet for my children" |author=|publisher= mars.com|date=September 2015|accessdate=2018-04-28}} Today, she works as the family's ambassador to the Mars petcare division.

In 1992, she married Lonnie Wright, a plant manager, in Champaign, Illinois. She has three children.