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Officers Board Chair Catherine Lindner Vice Chair Annie Zipfel Division Vice President Customer Marketing REI Past Chair Michelle Gloeckler Senior Vice President, Home Walmart US Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Treasurer Rosa C. Stroh Vice President and Treasurer The Hershey Company Secretary Elizabeth “Betsy” Hosick GM Strategic Capability Chevron Corporation
Executive Committee Chair, Regional Activities Maria Edelson Founder and President Sales and Capability Development LLC Chair, Membership Debbie Wildrick President Growing Innovative Brands Chair, Sponsorship Margarita Rossi Senior Director, Corporate Communications Johnson & Johnson Chair, Marketing and Communications Lisa Walsh Vice President Strategic Transformation and Customer Management PepsiCo Inc.
Chair, Education and Research Antoinette “Tonie” Leatherberry Principal Deloitte Consulting LLP
Linda Johnson Vice President Talent Management and D&I Chief Diversity Officer SUPERVALU
Board Directors At-Large
Eva Kohn Senior Vice President Strategic Sales Valassis
Sarah Chartrand Senior Vice President HR Centers Ahold USA Christy Consler Senior Vice President Human Resources & Corporate Sustainability Jamba Juice Company Dian Emerson Vice President Human Resources, Business Services and Diversity Safeway Inc. Vicki Felker Vice President Customer Development Group Nestlé Purina PetCare Company Erby Foster Jr. Director, Diversity & Inclusion The Clorox Company Mike Gorshe Managing Director CG&S and Food Retail Accenture Meg Ham President Bottom Dollar Food Julie Hamilton Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant Office of the Chairman and CEO The Coca-Cola Company
Monica Turner General Manager Market Strategy and Planning Procter & Gamble
General Counsel Bob Dickson Of Counsel Hart, King & Coldren
Bobbie O’Hare (member emeritus) Vice President Business Development JOH
Michele Murphy Senior Vice President Human Resources and Labor Relations SUPERVALU
Marnette Perry Senior Vice President Strategic Initiatives and Operations The Kroger Company
Champions
Bethany Quam Vice President, Sales U.S. Channels General Mills Sue Sears Vice President, Diversity Kimberly-Clark Corporation Regenia Stein Vice President, Industry Development and Communications Kraft Foods Group Inc. Karen Stuckey Senior Vice President Softlines and General Merchandise Sourcing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Marla Harger Thompson Group Vice President, Mobile Catalina
Dan Abraham CEO Garb-Ko Inc. Hank Armour President and CEO NACS Chris Baldwin Senior Vice President Marketing and Refining Hess Corporation Mark W. Baum Managing Partner MARCAT Group LLC Dennis J. Belcastro Senior Vice President Government Affairs and Industry Collaboration Hillshire Brands Company Betsy Heller Cohen Former Vice President Nestlé Purina Joseph M. DePinto President and CEO 7-Eleven Inc. Sandy Douglas Global Chief Customer Officer The Coca-Cola Company Jeri Dunn Bacardi International (retired) Tom Greco President Frito-Lay North America Michele M. Hanson CEO ExecuInsight LLC David Jobe President Leadership Conferences CSP Information Group
Jenny Keehan Executive Vice President Member Services Retail Industry Leaders Association Jim Keyes Chairman Key Development LLC
NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN
her first industry job. An executive returning from maternity leave who learns to balance the demands of child raising and work.
This annual report opens with the stories of 10 Network of Executive
William Kies Jr. President and Principal Kies Consulting LLC
Women members who explain — better than we can — how the Network
Don Knauss Chairman and CEO The Clorox Company
Denise Morrison President and CEO Campbell Soup Company
United States and Canada.
Jamice Obianyo Director, Community Relations Ecolab
And we believe there are not enough of them.
Chip O’Hare Chairman and CEO JOH
executives, men and women, retailers and suppliers — to drive change,
Marnette Perry Senior Vice President Strategic Initiatives and Operations The Kroger Company Larree Renda Executive Vice President Safeway Inc. Eileen R. Scott Former CEO Pathmark Supermarkets Stephen Sibert Vice President Corporate Affairs and Communications Diamond Foods Inc. Bill Simon President and CEO Walmart US Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
has changed their companies, their careers and their lives. NEW is a learning and leadership community connecting 7,000
We believe women leaders bring something special to our business. The Network brings people together — emerging leaders and senior
support one another, share ideas, shatter barriers and lift the next generation
Joan Toth
of women leaders.
The pages that follow will give you a measure of what our community has
accomplished in the past year. But this report cannot convey the countless connections, the unmeasured “aha” moments or the profound power of one leader helping another. This you must experience yourself — and in the months and years ahead, we hope you will.
Catherine Lindner Board Chair
Our mission
Tara Weiner Managing Partner Greater Philadelphia Region Deloitte Bonnie Wurzbacher Senior Vice President Global Customer Leadership The Coca-Cola Company (retired)
Catherine Lindner
members, 700 companies, 84 national sponsors and 19 regions in the
Dan Vucovich Senior Vice President and President U.S. The Hershey Company
Past and present officers and Board members Oct. 22 in Dallas.
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A grocery store checker who becomes president of a supermarket chain. A college student who’s helped to her degree and
Joan Toth President and CEO
Cover illustration by Bill Reuter. Mosaic of 248 members attending NEW Executive Leaders Forum 2012.
Attract, retain and advance women in the consumer products and retail industry through education, leadership and business development.
ANNUAL REPORT 2012
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