Post Holdings Appoints Dorothy M. Burwell to Board of Directors
July 02 2020 - 8:00AM
Post Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POST), a consumer packaged goods holding
company, today announced Dorothy M. Burwell, Partner at The
Finsbury Group Limited (“Finsbury”), has been appointed to its
Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective July 1, 2020. With the
addition of Ms. Burwell, the Board now consists of ten members.
Ms. Burwell is an accomplished strategic
communications advisor to publicly traded and private global
businesses. In 2008, she joined Finsbury, a global strategic
communications consultancy part of WPP PLC (“WPP”), and in 2015,
she was promoted to Partner with a variety of responsibilities
across client relationship management, company marketing and
business development. She has played an integral role in Finsbury’s
diversity efforts, serving on its global diversity committee and as
an executive sponsor for WPP’s inter-agency diversity steering
group, which oversees diversity and inclusion initiatives across
the U.K. Prior to joining Finsbury, Ms. Burwell spent six years at
Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division in both London and
New York as well as in the Firmwide Strategy Group, where she
focused on proprietary mergers and acquisitions and new business
development.
“I was fortunate to work with Dorothy when Post
acquired Weetabix and welcome her fresh perspective on our
business,” said Rob Vitale, President and CEO, Post Holdings.
“Dorothy’s business advice will be invaluable, and we also look
forward to her contribution towards our ongoing diversity and
inclusion efforts.”
Ms. Burwell earned her Master’s degree and Bachelor
of Science in Business Administration degree from Florida A&M
University. She has been recognized as an EMpower Top 100 Ethnic
Minority Executive annually from 2016 through 2020, as one of
Cranfield University’s Women to Watch and as one of Green Park’s
Top 100 Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders in
Business.
Ms. Burwell currently serves as a trustee of
Which?, the largest independent consumer rights organization in the
U.K., and as Chair of Trustees for the London Chapter of The Links,
Incorporated, a 74-year old nonprofit organization committed to
strengthening disadvantaged Black communities in the U.S. and
internationally.
About Post Holdings, Inc.
Post Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis,
Missouri, is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in
the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice, food ingredient
and convenient nutrition food categories. Through its Post Consumer
Brands business, Post is a leader in the North American
ready-to-eat cereal category offering a broad portfolio including
recognized brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Pebbles™, Great
Grains® and Malt-O-Meal® bag cereal. Post also is a leader in the
United Kingdom ready-to-eat cereal category with the iconic
Weetabix® brand. As a leader in refrigerated foods, Post delivers
innovative, value-added egg and refrigerated potato products to the
foodservice channel and the retail refrigerated side dish category,
offering side dishes and egg, sausage and cheese products through
the Bob Evans®, Simply Potatoes®, Better’n Eggs® and Crystal Farms®
brands. Post’s publicly-traded subsidiary BellRing Brands, Inc. is
a holding company operating in the global convenient nutrition
category through its primary brands of Premier Protein®, Dymatize®
and PowerBar®. Post participates in the private brand food category
through its investment with third parties in 8th Avenue Food &
Provisions, Inc., a leading, private brand centric, consumer
products holding company. For more information, visit
www.postholdings.com.
Contact:Investor RelationsJennifer
Meyerjennifer.meyer@postholdings.com(314) 644-7665
Media RelationsLisa
Hanlylisa.hanly@postholdings.com(314) 665-3180
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