LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.,
Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAIN) ("Hain Celestial" or the
"Company"), a leading organic and natural products company with
operations in North America,
Europe, Asia and the Middle
East providing consumers with A Healthier Way of Life™,
today announced the appointments of Chris
Boever to the role of Chief Customer Officer and
Robert Gulliver to Chief Human
Resources Officer, both reporting directly to Mark Schiller, President and Chief Executive
Officer, effective today.
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In the role of Chief Customer Officer, Mr. Boever will be
responsible for driving the sales and customer agenda in
the United States, as well as
helping ensure Hain Celestial transforms its innovation
capabilities. As a result, Gary
Tickle, Chief Executive Officer Hain Celestial North
America, will leave the Company after a brief transition. With Mr.
Tickle's departure, the North American organizational structure
will be streamlined and the CEO of North
America role eliminated. Mr. Schiller and Mr. Boever will
assume the majority of Mr. Tickle's previous responsibilities.
Mr. Boever joins Hain Celestial with a demonstrated track record
of executing strategic, customer-centric operational initiatives to
deliver growth in sales and profitability. He has more than 20
years of consumer packaged foods industry experience where he
served in executive roles at Pinnacle Foods, Inc., Conagra Brands,
Inc. and Hormel Foods Corporation. Most recently, Mr. Boever served
as Pinnacle Foods' Executive Vice President and Chief Customer
Officer and President of Foodservice where he was responsible for
overseeing its multi-billion dollar businesses to reshape and
reinvigorate growth.
Mr. Gulliver brings 25 years of human resources leadership
experience from multi-billion dollar organizations, including The
National Football League, Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup
Global Investment Management, Price Waterhouse Coopers and General
Electric Capital Corporation. He joins Hain Celestial from The
National Football League where he was responsible for developing
and ensuring world-class human resources for the league, owners and
clubs. Over his career, Mr. Gulliver has partnered with executive
leadership teams to create robust talent management processes and
programs both in the United States
and internationally.
"I am excited to welcome Chris and Robert to the Hain Celestial
leadership team," said Schiller. "I have had the pleasure of
previously working with Chris where he successfully executed
significant business transformation initiatives, including
developing a customer-centric culture focused on building brands
through product innovation, margin enhancement and key metric
accountability to generate stockholder value. Chris will be
instrumental in reinvigorating our growth in the United States through his decades of
experience and relationships with our customers. "
Schiller continued, "Robert's diverse resume will serve Hain
Celestial well as we further cultivate our entrepreneurial culture
and build a world class team across our global organization. People
are our most important asset and Robert will be focused on sourcing
and developing talent and building capabilities to support our
growth agenda. Robert brings the experience and know-how to build a
world class human resources function at Hain Celestial to help us
build a high performance team, and support our transition to a
disciplined, process driven organization."
About 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, Asia
and the Middle East. Hain
Celestial participates in many natural categories with well-known
brands that include Almond Dream®, Arrowhead Mills®, Bearitos®,
Better Bean®, BluePrint®, Casbah®, Celestial Seasonings®, Clarks™,
Coconut Dream®, Cully & Sully®, Danival®, DeBoles®, Earth's
Best®, Ella's Kitchen®, Empire®, Europe's Best®, Farmhouse Fare™, Frank Cooper's®, FreeBird®, Gale's®, Garden of
Eatin'®, GG UniqueFiber™, Hain Pure Foods®, Hartley's®, Health
Valley®, Imagine™, Johnson's Juice Co.™, Joya®, Kosher Valley®,
Lima®, Linda McCartney® (under license), MaraNatha®, Mary Berry (under license), Natumi®, New Covent
Garden Soup Co.®, Orchard House®, Plainville Farms®, Rice Dream®,
Robertson's®, Rudi's Gluten-Free Bakery™, Rudi's Organic Bakery®,
Sensible Portions®, Spectrum® Organics, Soy Dream®, Sun-Pat®,
Sunripe®, SunSpire®, Terra®, The Greek Gods®, Tilda®, Walnut
Acres®, WestSoy®, Yorkshire Provender®, Yves Veggie Cuisine® and
William's™. The Company's personal care products are marketed under
the Alba Botanica®, Avalon Organics®, Earth's Best®, JASON®, Live
Clean® and Queen Helene® brands.
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