Danone strengthens its leadership team
Press Release – Paris, January 6, 2022
Danone
strengthens its leadership
team
Danone today completes its leadership team with
three appointments at Executive Committee level: a Chief Operations
Officer; a Chief Research, Innovation, Quality and Food Safety
Officer; and a Chief Sustainability and Strategic Business
Development Officer. Three globally recognized professionals – two
from outside Danone and one internal – complete the leadership team
and represent an important step in strengthening Danone’s execution
and innovation, over the short and long-term.
The Chief
Operations Officer, in
charge of Cycles &
Procurement, Manufacturing
and Supply
Chain, will
further strengthen the performance of Danone’s operations.
Vikram Agarwal joins Danone in
this role, starting from January 2022, after a 33-year
international career leading Procurement, Manufacturing and Supply
chain functions in consumer goods. He will also be appointed
End-to-end Design To Delivery coordinator.
The Chief Research,
Innovation, Quality
and Food Safety Officer will
manage Danone’s science, innovation, quality and product
superiority agenda across categories. Isabelle
Esser will join the Company in this role,
starting from April 2022, bringing more than 25 years of experience
in leading Research & Development functions in consumer
goods.
Finally, the Chief
Sustainability and Strategic Business Development
Officer will bring sustainability back to the
heart of Danone’s business delivery and performance. He will also
be in charge of identifying, assessing, and exploring new and
sustainable growth opportunities, from geographic, category, and
business model perspectives. This function will be led by
Henri Bruxelles, currently Chief Operating Officer
End-to-end Design To Delivery, starting from January 2022.
Antoine de Saint-Affrique, Chief
Executive Officer, said:“The completion of the Danone’s
Executive Committee team, in particular with the addition of two
new senior executives recognized for their expertise, is an
important step in bringing Danone back to what made it a unique
company: a passion for brands and innovation and excellence in
execution, all combined with a pioneering spirit in terms of
sustainability. I am proud to lead such a team, characterized by
its determination, passion and discipline.”
APPENDIX
Biographies
Vikram Agarwal
brings over 33 years of international experience with global
consumer goods companies. In a distinguished career spanning 30
years with Unilever, he led transformational local, regional and
global roles, the most recent being Executive Vice President of the
Africa Supply Chain. He was subsequently Chief Supply Chain Officer
at Avon Products, playing an instrumental role in its successful
turnaround. Until now he was leading business strategy for Dole
Food & Beverages. Additionally, he associated closely with
leading PE Funds on M&A projects. Vikram passionately believes
that supply chains can play a pivotal role in generating business
competitiveness to create value and drive growth. Besides being
well-versed with most disciplines within the supply chain, he has a
keen understanding of digitalization of Integrated Business
Planning in large global supply chains and is an avid advocate of
sustainability in operations. Born in India and now a UK resident,
he is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT in India, with
a Certificate in Global Management from INSEAD.
Isabelle Esser has 30 years of
experience in consumer goods & B2B international companies in
local, regional and global roles. Most recently, she was the Chief
Human Resources Officer of Barry Callebaut, after a career of over
25 years in Research and Development at Unilever, where she last
held the position of Executive Vice President R&D Foods
Transformation in the Global Foods & Refreshment Division.
Isabelle Esser started her career as a scientist at Unilever
Research & Development Port Sunlight Laboratory, UK, after
which she served in various positions within Research &
Development across the globe within the Foods as well as the Home
& Personal Care business divisions. Throughout her career,
Isabelle promoted and drove transformational changes through
people, built capabilities enabling sustainable innovation from
insights generated through consumer data and digital. She is
passionate about sustainable nutrition, product innovation &
solution and quality in brands. Engaged in the Diversity &
Inclusion agenda for more than 20 years, she drove D&I in all
her roles as a source of innovation. Isabelle holds a degree as
‘Ingénieur Civil en Sciences des Matériaux, Orientation Physique’
from Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium and a PhD in Chemistry
from the University of Birmingham in the UK.
Henri Bruxelles started his
career at Danone in 1987 where he held several assignments in
Marketing in Germany, France, Spain and Brazil. In 2002, he became
VP Marketing of Danone France, before becoming the VP Marketing of
the Dairy division in 2004, and Danone’s Chief Marketing Officer in
2008. In 2010, he was appointed General Manager of Danone Portugal
and, in 2013, General Manager of Danone Argentina. In 2015, he
became Regional Vice President Waters Latam. He joined the
Executive Committee in October 2017 as EVP Waters & Africa.
Since November 2020, he has been serving as Chief Operating Officer
End-to-End Design to Delivery.
Composition of Danone’s
Executive
Committee
Reporting to Antoine de Saint-Affrique,
Chief Executive Officer:
- Vikram Agarwal, Chief Operations
Officer, End-to-end Design To Delivery coordinator
- Roberto di Bernardini, Chief Human
Resources Officer
- Henri Bruxelles, Chief
Sustainability and Strategic Business Development Officer
- Isabelle Esser, Chief Research,
Innovation, Quality and Food Safety Officer (as of April 1,
2022)
- Juergen Esser, Chief Financial,
Technology and Data Officer
- Shane Grant, Chief Executive
Officer North America
- Nigyar Makhmudova, Chief Growth
Officer
- Véronique Penchienati-Bosetta,
Chief Executive Officer International
- Laurent Sacchi, General
Secretary
Reporting to Véronique Penchienati-Bosetta,
Chief Executive Officer International:
- Charlie Cappetti, President CIS and
Turkey
- Bruno Chevot, President Greater
China and Oceania
- Silvia Davila, President Latin
America
- Jean-Marc Magnaudet, President
Specialized Nutrition
- Corine Tap, President Asia, Africa
and Middle-East
- Floris Wesseling, President
Europe
About Danone
(www.danone.com)
Danone is a leading global food and beverage
company building on health-focused and fast-growing categories in 3
businesses: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters and
Specialized Nutrition. With its ‘One Planet. One Health’ frame of
action, which considers the health of people and the planet as
intimately interconnected, Danone aims to inspire healthier and
more sustainable eating and drinking practices. To accelerate this
food revolution and create superior, sustainable, profitable value
for all its stakeholders, Danone has defined nine 2030 Goals, and
paved the way as the first listed company to adopt the “Entreprise
à Mission” status in France. With a purpose to bring health through
food to as many people as possible, and corresponding social,
societal and environmental objectives set out in its articles of
association, Danone commits to operating in an efficient,
responsible and inclusive manner, in line with the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. By 2025, Danone
aims to become one of the first multinational companies to obtain B
Corp™ certification. With more than 100,000 employees, and products
sold in over 120 markets, Danone generated €23.6 billion in sales
in 2020. Danone’s portfolio includes leading international brands
(Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Aptamil, Danette, Danio, Danonino, evian,
Nutricia, Nutrilon, Volvic, among others) as well as strong local
and regional brands (including AQUA, Blédina, Bonafont, Cow &
Gate, Horizon Organic, Mizone, Oikos, Prostokvashino, Silk). Listed
on Euronext Paris and present on the OTCQX market via an ADR
(American Depositary Receipt) program, Danone is a component stock
of leading sustainability indexes including the ones managed by
Vigeo Eiris and Sustainalytics, as well as the Ethibel
Sustainability Index, the MSCI ESG Indexes, the FTSE4Good Index
Series, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, and the Access to
Nutrition Index.
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