Movers and Shakers


The right people in the right roles can make all the difference MARS WRIGLEY APPOINTS MARC CARENA


AS NEW REGIONAL PRESIDENT Mars Wrigley has announced the appointment of Marc Carena as its new Regional President for Europe, CIS & Turkey. In his new position, Marc will bring his extensive experience in retail, foodservice and FMCG to help enhance and drive Mars Wrigley’s strategy for purpose-led growth across Europe, CIS and Turkey.


Andrew Clarke, Global President of Mars Wrigley, said


of the appointment: “As our presence across Europe, CIS & Turkey continues to go from strength to strength, I’m confident that Marc’s innovative, energetic and collaborative mindset will help our team to reach even greater heights in the near future.” Marc Carena said: “It is a dynamic period of growth for


the region, and I am excited about advancing this industry- leading work with our talented Associates across our entire regional portfolio.” The Regional President position was previously held for


six years by Shaid Shah, who is now serving as Mars Wrigley’s Global President of Food, Multisales and Global Customers.


TONY’S CHIEF CHOCOLATE OFFICER in


Appointments


SACMI USA


OF SALES Sebastian Clemens,


NAMES SEBASTIAN CLEMENS DIRECTOR


of SACMI since 2020 and highly experienced chocolate


the industries,


Area Manager packaging


promoted to Director of Sales of the SACMI Packaging &


has now been Chocolate US


branch. With this promotion, SACMI has said it is going for further packaging and chocolate business growth in the States. Clemens will lead the SACMI


Packaging & Chocolate sales team from the Des Moines office in Iowa, home to SACMI USA, the SACMI Group’s North American manufacturing and sales strategy hub.


HENK JAN STEPS DOWN As of October 1, 2022, Henk Jan will be stepping down from his role as ‘Chief Chocolate Officer’ at Tony’s. After almost 12 years of leading Tony’s Chocolonely, Henk Jan will be handing over the baton but staying on as a shareholder and on Tony’s supervisory board. He’s boldly raised the bar on the issues of child labour and modern slavery in cocoa. Under his leadership Tony’s has grown from a little over €1 million to €142 million est. revenue in our current fiscal year. Now, working with close to 9,000 farmers and leading our 300 strong Tony’s team, the company has said “it’s time for him to take a different path”. Henk Jan commented: “It’s been one helluva rollercoaster – one I wouldn’t have missed for anything in the world. Leading this bold, mission-driven impact business has been an absolute honour. Looking back, I feel privileged to have worked with the talented team Tonys. I am proud of the impact we’ve made together thus far. And I feel excited about the impact that Tony’s will make in the years to come.” Douglas Lamont will be taking up the reins in delivering Tony’s mission – and


with 15 years of balancing purpose and profit whilst scaling innocent drinks under his belt, Tony’s said they are “eager to get cracking at making even more impact together in chocolate!”


As Area Manager, Clemens has


achieved excellent results in recent years. Now, in his new role, he’ll be able to draw on extensive experience in the industry, initially in packaging (where he handled the engineering- automation field for companies such as Bosch Sigpack Systems AG) and then in chocolate, where he was sales account manager for the Bühler Group. “With Sebastian heading sales”, observed Mark


Lozano,


American Operations VP of SACMI Packaging & Chocolate,


North “we’re


keeping the focus on steady growth and a strengthening of team skills so our American customers can count on innovative, ever-better services.


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