LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.,
Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hain
Celestial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAIN), a leading organic and
natural products company with operations in North America, Europe and India providing consumers with A Healthier Way
of Life™, announced today recent executive team
appointments for Hain Celestial United States, Hain Pure Protein
Corporation and Hain Celestial United Kingdom.
"We are very pleased to announce the appointment of these
seasoned consumer packaged foods industry executives. They further
strengthen our worldwide leadership team and their future
contributions will be invaluable as Hain Celestial grows to the
next level internationally with the strength of our diversified
portfolio of organic, natural and better-for-you brands," commented
Irwin D. Simon, Founder, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Hain
Celestial.
Hain Celestial United States
Gary W. Tickle joins Hain Celestial as Chief
Operating Officer. He is a proven leader, both in
the United States and
internationally, having served in various executive roles driving
innovation, global strategy development and execution at Nestlé
Group. Gary most recently served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Nestle Infant Nutrition North America with
responsibility for the Gerber and Nestle brands. Prior to
this role, Gary served as the Global Head, Maternal and Infant
Nutrition Strategic Business Unit in Vevey, Switzerland, as the Regional Business
Head, South Asia based in
New Delhi, India in Infant
Nutrition and Chief Executive Officer, Auckland, New Zealand with responsibility for
Baking, Beverages, Cereals, Confections, Frozen Food. Gary
will oversee the sales and marketing functions for the
Better-for-You Snacking and Better-for-You Pantry platforms and
brands in the United States.
Jerome "Jay" W. Erskin joins Hain Celestial as Chief Supply
Chain Officer. He is a results oriented operations executive
with strong experience in the food and beverage industries in
the United States, having started
his business career at Kraft Foods Inc. as a Manufacturing and
Procurement Manager. Jay also served in various capacities as
Plant Director and Procurement Director at The Dannon Company,
Inc.; Manufacturing Director at MARS Petcare, NA; Vice President,
Operations at Chobani, LLC and more recently, Chief Operating
Officer at SK Food Group, Inc. Jay will oversee the supply
chain as well as productivity for Hain Celestial United
States.
James "Jamie" F. G. Fay joins
Hain Celestial as Chief Customer Officer with a substantial
background as a senior sales and marketing executive in the
natural, conventional and mass channels. Most recently Jamie
served as Senior Vice President, Global Sales for Nature's Path
Foods. Previously, Jamie worked in positions of increasing
responsibility at Mars, Inc. ascending to a Senior Vice President,
Sales role on the North America Chocolate business. Jamie
also worked in various sales and marketing positions for Group
Danone in the United States and
Canada. Jamie will oversee the sales functions for Hain
Celestial United States including Consumer and Customer Analytics
and Trade Marketing along with the marketing function for
Better-for-You Baby.
Additionally, Hain Celestial appointed Leah Dunmore as Vice President, Marketing,
Better-for-You Pantry for Hain Celestial United States, having
previously held positions at Campbell Soup Company as Vice
President, U.S. Soup; and Mars Chocolate, North America as Marketing Director, M&M's
Business. Earlier in her career, Leah spent over a decade with SC
John in various marketing leadership roles across a wide range of
brands. At Celestial Seasonings, Tim
Collins joined the Company as Vice President, Marketing,
with responsibility for the Celestial Seasonings® tea and Dream®
plant-based beverage brands, having previously held positions with
Kraft Heinz Company as Marketing Director, Kraft Enhancers and
Associate Marketing Director, Frozen Snacks; Senior Brand Manager,
Teavana at Starbucks as well as various marketing positions at
Procter and Gamble.
Hain Pure Protein Corporation
James R. Meiers has been appointed Chief
Executive Officer, Hain Pure Protein Corporation overseeing the
Empire® Kosher, Plainville Farms® and FreeBird® poultry brands and
the protein business of Hain Celestial in addition to his
responsibilities as Chief Operations Officer at Hain Celestial,
including the Company's recently announced Project Terra worldwide
cost savings initiative.
Hain Celestial United Kingdom
James Skidmore has been appointed Chief
Executive Officer Hain Daniels, having joined the Company with the
Orchard House Foods Limited acquisition in December 2015.
James is responsible for the Hain Daniels business with its
Grocery, Fruit and Chilled and Frozen business units featuring the
Hartley's®, New Covent Garden Soup Co. ®, Linda McCartney's®, Sun-Pat® and Robertson's®
brands, among others.
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
The Hain Celestial
Group (Nasdaq: HAIN), headquartered in Lake Success, NY, is a leading organic and
natural products company with operations in North America, Europe and India. Hain Celestial
participates in many natural categories with well-known brands that
include Celestial Seasonings®, Earth's Best®, Ella's Kitchen®,
Terra®, Garden of Eatin'®, Sensible Portions®, Health Valley®,
Arrowhead Mills®, MaraNatha®, SunSpire®, DeBoles®, Casbah®, Rudi's
Organic Bakery®, Hain Pure Foods®, Spectrum®, Spectrum Essentials®,
Imagine®, Almond Dream®, Rice Dream®, Soy Dream®, WestSoy®, The
Greek Gods®, BluePrint®, FreeBird®, Plainville Farms®, Empire®,
Kosher Valley®, Yves Veggie Cuisine®, Europe's Best®, Cully & Sully®, New Covent
Garden Soup Co.®, Johnson's Juice Co.®, Farmhouse Fare®,
Hartley's®, Sun-Pat®, Gale's®, Robertson's®, Frank Cooper's®, Linda McCartney®, Lima®,
Danival®, Joya®, Natumi®, GG UniqueFiber®, Tilda®, JASON®, Avalon
Organics®, Alba Botanica®, Live Clean® and Queen Helene®.
Hain Celestial has been providing A Healthier Way of Life™ since
1993. For more information, visit www.hain.com.
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