About
Ms. West has served on our Board since October 2020. Ms. West has a proven track record of innovation and transformation across myriad facets of retail. Ms. West began her career at Kraft Foods, Inc., and over the course of 21 years of working on some of the food industry’s most iconic brands like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Oreo and Maxwell House coffee, she was named Chief Marketing Officer in 2007. When Kraft Foods spun their snack foods division off in 2012, Ms. West went with the new company, Mondelez International, Inc., and served as Executive Vice President, Chief Category and Marketing Officer from 2012 to 2014. When Ms. West left Mondelez, she joined J.C. Penney Company, Inc. in 2015, after having served on their board of directors from November 2005 to May 2015. Ms. West was then tapped by The Hershey Company in May 2017 for its Senior Vice President and Chief Growth Officer. Ms. West drove the company’s growth and marketing strategies as well as communication, disruptive innovation, research and development, and mergers and acquisitions, and ignited the transformation of the company’s offerings beyond chocolate into snack categories, retiring from the company in January 2020.
Ms. West is currently a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Co. Ms. West earned an M.B.A. in Marketing from Columbia University and a B.S. in Management from Nazareth College in Rochester. Ms. West is currently a member of the board of directors of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), a position she has held since June 2016 and Lowe’s Inc. (NASDAQ:LOW), where she has been a member of the board of directors since April 2021.
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| Company | Committee | Role | Appointment Date | Resignation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albertsons | Board | Member | 01/10/2020 |