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Michele Buck to Assume Leadership of U.S. Confection Business on Interim Basis Upon Departure of Michael Del Pozzo
The Hershey Company has announced that Michael Del Pozzo, President, U.S. Confection has departed the company effective December 12, 2024. Michele Buck, The Hershey Company President and Chief Executive Officer, will assume leadership of the U.S. Confection Business while the company identifies a successor from among a strong pipeline of internal and external candidates.
Mondelēz names Volker Kuhn Executive Vice President
Mondelēz International has announced the appointment of Volker Kuhn as Executive Vice President and President, Europe, effective April 1, 2025, reporting directly to Chair and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Van de Put. Kuhn will replace Vinzenz Gruber, who has announced his retirement from the Company, also effective April 1, 2025. Kuhn will join the organisation on January 6, 2025, partnering with Gruber to ensure a smooth transition. Kuhn joins Mondelēz from Reckitt’s
hygiene business, its largest global unit, where he delivered top- and bottom- line performance acceleration driven by innovation, consumer centricity and category growth. Earlier, he served as Reckitt’s Chief Transformation Officer. “We’re delighted to welcome Volker Kuhn to
our Mondelēz International family,” Van de Put said. “His breadth and depth of international consumer packaged goods experience, coupled with his track record of impressive results and leadership impact, position him well to accelerate growth in our European region while continuing to strengthen consumer loyalty to our iconic brands.”
58 Kennedy’s Confection December/January 2024/25 Del Pozzo is returning to PepsiCo –
where he had worked his entire career prior to joining Hershey – and will assume a new leadership role. Buck will partner closely with the highly
experienced U.S. Confection leadership team during this interim period to lead the business through its next phase of growth and advance Hershey’s Leading Snacking Powerhouse vision.
Michael Del Pozzo
MycoTechnology appoints
Jordi Ferre as CEO MycoTechnology, Inc. has appointed Jordi Ferre as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective January 02, 2025. Ranjan Patnaik, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, who has been acting as interim CEO, will continue to serve as MycoTechnology’s CTO. Ferre joins leading food
technology innovator, MycoTechnology, with over 30 years of general management experience in the global food, value-added ingredients, and Agri-tech industries. He will be relocating to the Denver, Colorado area, where MycoTechnology’s headquarters are based. Currently, he serves as Global Food Division Head at HealthTech Bioactives, a global ingredient specialist that produces solutions for active pharmaceutical ingredients, taste modulation, functional health and animal nutrition. Prior to his role at HealthTech Bioactives, Ferre was CEO
of AgroFresh, Inc., a public company operating in the food preservation space, as well as COO of PureCircle™, where he was instrumental in establishing the Stevia sweetener market worldwide. His other industry- relevant leadership positions include VP of Sales and Marketing, Sucralose division at Tate & Lyle, and CEO of Alvinesa Natural Ingredients S.A., where he drove growth and innovation across sweeteners, colors, antioxidants and other natural ingredient markets.
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