Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the newly independent cell phone and set-top box business of the former Motorola Inc., appointed Nike Inc. executive Jeanne P. Jackson to its board Thursday. Get the full story »
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Jan. 13 at 5:01 p.m.
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Filed under: Cell phones, Chicago executives, Consumer electronics, Personnel moves, Technology, Work culture Motorola Mobility names Nike executive to board
Boeing names Hammonds chief information officer
Chicago-based Boeing Company has named Kim Hammonds as chief information officer and vice president of its information technology organization.
Hammonds succeeds John Hinshaw, who is becoming vice president and general manager of the new information solutions unit in Boeing Defense, Space & Security. She’ll be responsible for all IT strategy, systems, infrastructure, architecture, processes and people companywide.
Walgreens to expand fresh food offerings at stores
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley tours a Walgreens store at 1533 67th Place in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
Walgreen Co. plans to expand its fresh food offerings in several hundred stores in coming years, company chief executive officer Greg Wasson told shareholders this afternoon.
Addressing 2,500 shareholders at the company’s annual meeting at Navy Pier on Chicago’s lakefront, Wasson said such stores fit the company’s strategy to evolve from a “retail drugstore to a retail ‘health and daily living store.’”
Walgreen Co., which offers more and more health and wellness needs, began to test out fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables last year, particularly in poor urban markets where access to healthy food choices is a problem. Get the full story »
Kraft names Sam Rovit head of strategy
Kraft Foods has chosen Sam Rovit to be its executive vice president of strategy. He replaces Michael Osanloo, who is now Kraft’s president of North American grocery.
Starting Jan. 29, Rovit will head Kraft’s strategy team, which works with the company’s various business units, to emphasize growth and savings targets. The team is also charged with improving performance in the company’s brands and its sales in the channels where they are sold, like supermarkets or gas stations.
As a member of Kraft’s executive team, he will report directly to chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld. Get the full story »
Rosner steps down as CEO of BuyWithMe
Former Chicagoan Cheryl Rosner has stepped down as chief executive of online deals site BuyWithMe after less than a year in her position. Get the full story »
Newell Rubbermaid CEO retiring
Consumer products maker Newell Rubbermaid Inc. says President and CEO Mark Ketchum will retire later this year after leading the company that behind Sharpie pens and Rubbermaid containers for about five years. Get the full story »
Gatorade taps top marketer as N. American head
Gatorade North America has named Sarah Robb O’Hagan as its new president and global chief marketing officer for sports nutrition. She succeeds Rich Beck, who will be senior vice president of global supply chain operations at PepsiCo, Gatorade’s parent.
Robb O’Hagan joined Gatorade in 2008 as chief marketing officer, spearheading the company’s launch of G Series, a three-product sales proposition for before, during and after workouts. Gatorade now offers a G Series for elite athletes and competitive high school athletes. The company is launching a G Series for fitness athletes in the spring, including energy bar bites. Get the full story »
Jan. 10 at 2:44 p.m.
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Filed under: Banking, Chicago executives, Jobs/employment, Personnel moves U.S. Trust adds five advisers in Chicago, Texas
U.S. Trust, a private banking unit of Bank of America, continued last year’s hiring spree on Monday as it added five financial advisers in Chicago and Texas.
The New York-based unit added Lisa Adelstein as a private client adviser in Chicago as well as Jay Bartley and Elizabeth Elgie as advisers in Fort Worth, Texas. U.S. Trust also added adviser Jason Garcia in Dallas and Michael Rogala in Houston. Get the full story »
Morningstar COO Tao Huang to leave firm
Chicago-based mutual fund and stock research company Morningstar Inc. announced Monday that its chief operating officer, Tao Huang, will leave the firm at the end of January. Get the full story »
PepsiCo chooses new head of Quaker Foods unit
Quaker Foods and Snacks North America, the Chicago-based division of PepsiCo, has tapped Jose Luis Prado as its new president.
Prado replaces Jaya Kumar, who will lead PepsiCo’s Global Nutrition Group, which is based in Chicago. Kumar served as president of Quaker for one year. Before that, he was senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Frito-Lay. Get the full story »
Jan. 7 at 2:49 p.m.
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Filed under: Advertising/Marketing, Chicago executives, Personnel moves, Updated Ex-DraftFCB exec to lead Google food team in Chicago
Google is establishing a food-and-beverage team in Chicago to link with advertisers and marketers including Northfield-based Kraft and Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo. Karen Sauder, who recently resigned from her position as managing director at DraftFCB Chicago, will become Industry Director for Food and Beverages at Google.
In the new role, Sauder is expected to build a Chicago-based team, focusing on Google’s efforts to build its advertising and marketing business in the food and beverage industries for the first time, according to a Google spokesman.
Sauder will take on the role as early as Jan. 31. Get the full story »
Jan. 5 at 1:57 p.m.
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Filed under: Chicago executives, Commercial real estate, Personnel moves, Real estate New General Growth CEO shuffling executives
General Growth Properties Inc.’s incoming chief executive is beginning to shuffle the mall owner’s executive ranks in advance of his arrival.
Sandeep Mathrani, the Vornado Realty Trust veteran who officially will join General Growth as CEO on Jan. 17, disclosed in an email sent to General Growth employees late Tuesday that long-time executives Robert Michaels and Ron Gern will leave the mall owner. Get the full story »
Stericycle international operations leader leaves
Stericycle Inc., which manages and disposes medical waste, said Tuesday that Executive Vice President Richard L. Foss left the company Dec. 31. Get the full story »
Jan. 3 at 6:27 p.m.
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Filed under: Chicago executives, Conventions, Personnel moves, Policy, Tourism Indy tourism exec to lead Chicago convention bureau
The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau’s board today hired Indianapolis tourism executive Donald P. Welsh as its new president and chief executive officer.
Welsh was hired away from the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Assn., where he was chief executive.
His hiring comes shortly after the resignation of Tim Roby, a hospitality industry sales and marketing executive who took the top executive post at the bureau in 2006. Get the full story »
