USA | The Kraft Heinz Company announced that L. Kevin Cox, Mary Lou Kelley, and Tony Palmer have been appointed to join its Board of Directors effective the 22nd of October 2025.
According to Miguel Patricio, Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Kraft Heinz, each brings extensive senior management experience from complex, large-scale corporations, as well as other board experience.
“Their combined decades of insight and experience will be incredibly valuable as we deliver on our core business and prepare to separate Kraft Heinz into two industry-leading companies.”
L. Kevin Cox has been an HR leader for more than three decades, bringing valuable experience leading large-scale, complex change at some of the world’s largest corporations.
He now provides strategic consulting services through his own firm, LKC Advisory LLC, focusing on executive leadership development, organisational culture transformation, and talent management strategies to drive performance and growth.
With expertise at the intersection of strategy, talent, and culture, he previously served as a director of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. from 2012 to 2015 and as Chair of the Compensation Committee in 2014 and 2015. He also served as a director at The Kraft Heinz Company from 2015 to 2016.
Mary Lou Kelley will bring exceptional retail, e-commerce, and brand marketing leadership experience to the Board, most recently serving as President, E-Commerce, for Best Buy Co., Inc. from 2014 to 2017, where she led its online business and digital and technology strategy and execution.
She currently serves as a director at Yeti, an outdoor products company, and as a director of Finning International, which sells, rents, and provides parts and services for equipment and engines to customers in various industries.
Tony Palmer has broad-based consumer packaged goods experience and a record of accelerating growth and profitability at leading consumer brands. He also brings expertise in product innovation and marketing, and international operations.
Currently an Operating Partner at One Rock Capital Partners LLC, he is incredibly knowledgeable about consumer goods and driving growth through strategic initiatives.
Carlos Abrams-Rivera, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Kraft Heinz, said they will be tremendous assets to the Board and partners to the Kraft Heinz Executive Team.
“Their expertise across CPG, retail, and e-commerce space, as well as in organisational transformation, will complement the broad, deep, and diverse experience of our other directors. This is especially important as we focus on driving performance within our existing business, while simultaneously separating into two independent, publicly traded companies.”
More global news here
