Ilene S. Gordon
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since
May 4, 2009. Ms. Gordon was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rio Tinto’s
Alcan Packaging, a multinational business unit engaged in flexible and specialty
packaging, from October 2007 until she joined the Company on May 4, 2009. From
December 2006 to October 2007, Ms. Gordon was a Senior Vice President of Alcan
Inc. and President and Chief Executive Officer of Alcan Packaging. Alcan Packaging
was acquired by Rio Tinto in October 2007. From 2004 until December 2006, Ms.
Gordon served as President of Alcan Food Packaging Americas, a division of Alcan
Inc. From 1999 until Alcan’s December 2003 acquisition of Pechiney Group,
Ms. Gordon was a Senior Vice President of Pechiney Group and President of Pechiney
Plastic Packaging, Inc., a global flexible packaging business. Prior to joining
Pechiney in June 1999, Ms. Gordon spent 17 years with Tenneco Inc., where she
most recently served as Vice President and General Manager, heading up Tenneco’s
folding carton business. Ms. Gordon also serves as a director of International
Paper Company, a global paper and packaging company. She served as a director
of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an international insurance brokerage and risk
management business, from 1999 to May 2013 and as a director of United Stationers
Inc., now Essendant Inc., a wholesale distributor of business products and a provider
of marketing and logistics services to resellers, from January 2000 to May 2009.
Ms. Gordon also serves as Chairman of The Economic Club of Chicago and as a director
of The Executives’ Club of Chicago, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
and World Business Chicago. She is also a trustee of The MIT Corporation and a
Vice Chair of The Conference Board. Ms. Gordon holds a Bachelor’s degree
in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Master’s
degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Christine M. Castellano
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance
Officer since April 1, 2013. Prior to that Ms. Castellano served as Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from October 1, 2012 to March
31, 2013. Ms. Castellano previously served as Vice President International Law
and Deputy General Counsel from April 28, 2011 to September 30, 2012, Associate
General Counsel, South America and Europe from January 1, 2011 to April 27, 2011,
and as Associate General International Counsel from 2004 to December 31, 2010.
Prior to that, Ms. Castellano served as Counsel US and Canada from 2002 to 2004.
Ms. Castellano joined CPC International, Inc., now Unilever Bestfoods (“CPC”),
as Operations Attorney in September 1996 and held that position until 2002. CPC
was a worldwide group of businesses, principally engaged in three major industry
segments: consumer foods, baking and corn refining. Ingredion commenced operations
as a spin-off of CPC’s corn refining business. Prior to joining CPC, Ms.
Castellano was an income partner in the law firm McDermott Will & Emery from
January 1, 1996 and had served as an associate in that firm from 1991 to December
31, 1996. She serves as a trustee of The John Marshall Law School and the Peggy
Notebaert Nature Museum. She also serves as a member of the Board of the Illinois
Equal Justice Foundation. Ms. Castellano holds a Bachelor’s degree in political
science from the University of Colorado and a Juris Doctor degree from the University
of Michigan Law School.
Anthony P. DeLio
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer since January 1, 2014. Prior
to that Mr. DeLio served as Vice President, Global Innovation from November 4,
2010 to December 31, 2013, and he served as Vice President, Global Innovation
for National Starch from January 1, 2009 to November 3, 2010. Mr. DeLio served
as Vice President and General Manager, North America, of National Starch from
February 26, 2006 to December 31, 2008. Prior to that he served as Associate Vice
Chancellor of Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from
August 2004 to February 2006. Previously, Mr. DeLio served as Corporate Vice President
of Marketing and External Relations of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (“ADM”),
one of the world’s largest processors of oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa and
other agricultural commodities and a leading manufacturer of protein meal, vegetable
oil, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol and other value-added food and
feed ingredients, from October 2002 to October 2003. Prior to that Mr. DeLio was
President of the Protein Specialties and Nutraceutical Divisions of ADM from September
2000 to October 2002 and President of the Nutraceutical Division of ADM from June
1999 to September 2001. He held various senior product development positions with
Mars, Inc. from 1980 to May 1999. Mr. DeLio holds a Bachelor of Science degree
in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Jack C. Fortnum
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 6, 2014. Prior
to that Mr. Fortnum served as Executive Vice President and President, North America
from February 1, 2012 to January 5, 2014. Mr. Fortnum previously served as Executive
Vice President and President, Global Beverage, Industrial and North America Sweetener
Solutions from October 1, 2010 to January 31, 2012. Prior thereto, Mr. Fortnum
served as Vice President from 1999 to September 30, 2010 and President of the
North America Division from May 2004 to September 30, 2010. Mr. Fortnum joined
CPC in 1984 and held positions of increasing responsibility including serving
as President, US/Canadian Region of the Company from July 2003 to May 2004. Mr.
Fortnum is a former Chairman of the Board of the Corn Refiners Association. Mr.
Fortnum holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Toronto
and completed the Senior Business Administration Course offered by McGill University.
Diane J. Frisch
Senior Vice President, Human Resources since October 1, 2010. Ms. Frisch previously
served as Vice President, Human Resources, from May 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010.
Prior to that, Ms. Frisch served as Vice President of Human Resources and Communications
for the Food Americas and Global Pharmaceutical Packaging businesses of Rio Tinto’s
Alcan Packaging, a multinational company engaged in flexible and specialty packaging,
from January 2004 to March 30, 2010. Prior to being acquired by Alcan Packaging,
Ms. Frisch served as Vice President of Human Resources for the flexible packaging
business of Pechiney, S.A., an aluminum and packaging company with headquarters
in Paris and Chicago, from January 2001 to January 2004. Previously, she served
as Vice President of Human Resources for Culligan International Company and Vice
President and Director of Human Resources for Alumax Mill Products, Inc., a division
of Alumax Inc. Ms. Frisch holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Ithaca
College, Ithaca, NY, and a Master of Science degree in industrial relations from
the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Matthew R. Galvanoni
Vice President and Corporate Controller since August 15, 2012. Mr. Galvanoni previously
served as Vice President, Corporate Accounting from June 18, 2012, when he joined
Ingredion, to August 14, 2012. Mr. Galvanoni was previously employed by Exelon
Corporation for 10 years. He served as Principal Accounting Officer of Exelon
Generation and Vice President and Assistant Corporate Controller of Exelon Corporation
from July 2009 until the merger of Exelon Corporation with Constellation Energy
Group, Inc. in March 2012, at which time Mr. Galvanoni became the Vice President,
Financial Systems Integration until May 2012. Mr. Galvanoni previously served
as Vice President and Controller of Commonwealth Edison Company and PECO Energy
Company from January 2007 to July 2009. He served in various roles at the Director
level of the Controllership organization of Exelon Corporation from November 2002
to December 2006. Mr. Galvanoni holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration
degree from Northwestern University. He is a certified public accountant in the
State of Illinois.
Jorgen Kokke
Senior Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific and EMEA since January 1, 2016.
Prior to that Mr. Kokke served as Senior Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific
from September 16, 2014 to December 31, 2015. Mr. Kokke previously served as Vice
President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific from January 6, 2014 to September
15, 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Kokke served as Vice President and General Manager,
EMEA since joining National Starch on March 1, 2009. Prior to that, he served
as a Vice President of CSM NV, a global food ingredients supplier, where he had
responsibility for the global Purac Food & Nutrition business from 2006 to
2009. Prior thereto, Mr. Kokke was Director of Strategy and Business Development
at CSM NV. Prior to that he held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility
in sales, business development, marketing and general management in Unilever’s
Loders Croklaan Group. Mr. Kokke holds a Master’s degree in economics from
the University of Amsterdam.
Martin Sonntag
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Global Business Development since November
1, 2015. Prior to that Mr. Sonntag served as Vice President and General Manager,
EMEA from February 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015. Prior thereto he served as an
executive investment partner and portfolio manager at ADCURAM Group AG from April
2013 to January 2014. Previously, Mr. Sonntag served as General Manager of Dow
Wolff Cellulosics GmbH from July 2007 to March 2013. From October 2004 to March
2007, he served as Global Business Director for Liquid Resins & Intermediates
at The Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Sonntag served as Global Product Manager for
Liquid Resins & Intermediates and Global Product Marketing Manager for Intermediates
from 2003 to 2005 and Global Product Manager for Liquid Resins & Intermediates
and Converted Epoxy Resins from 2000 to 2003. Previously, Mr. Sonntag, who joined
Dow in Stade, Germany in 1989 as a Process Design Engineer, held a variety of
engineering and management positions. Mr. Sonntag holds a Bachelor’s degree
in chemical engineering from the Hamburg University of Technology and is a graduate
of the INSEAD Advanced Management Program.
Robert J. Stefansic
Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence, Sustainability and Chief Supply
Chain Officer since May 28, 2014. From January 1, 2014 to May 27, 2014, Mr. Stefansic
served as Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence and Environmental, Health,
Safety & Sustainability. Prior to that, Mr. Stefansic served as Vice President,
Operational Excellence and Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability from
August 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013. He previously served as Vice President, Global
Manufacturing Network Optimization and Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability
of National Starch, from November 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011. Prior to that, he
served as Vice President, Global Operations of National Starch from November 1,
2006 to October 31, 2010. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, North America
Manufacturing of National Starch from December 13, 2004 to October 31, 2006. Prior
to joining National Starch he held positions of increasing responsibility with
The Valspar Corporation, General Chemical Corporation and Allied Signal Corporation.
Mr. Stefansic holds a Bachelor degree in chemical engineering and a Master degree
in business administration from the University of South Carolina.
James P. Zallie
Executive Vice President, Global Specialties and President, Americas since January
1, 2016. Mr. Zallie previously served as Executive Vice
President, Global Specialties and President, North America and EMEA from January
6, 2014 to December 31, 2015. Prior to that Mr. Zallie served as Executive Vice
President, Global Specialties and President, EMEA and Asia-Pacific from February
1, 2012 to January 5, 2014. Mr. Zallie previously served as Executive Vice President
and President, Global Ingredient Solutions from October 1, 2010 to January 31,
2012. Mr. Zallie previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
the National Starch business from January 2007 to September 30, 2010. Mr. Zallie
worked for National Starch for more than 27 years in various positions of increasing
responsibility, first in technical, then marketing and then international business
management positions. Mr. Zallie also serves as a director of Innophos Holdings,
Inc., a leading international producer of performance-critical and nutritional
specialty ingredients with applications in food, beverage, dietary supplements,
pharmaceutical, oral care and industrial end markets. He holds Masters degrees
in food science and business administration from Rutgers University and a Bachelor
of Science degree in food science from Pennsylvania State University.
Ingredion Incorporated currently has 11200 employees.
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