NFRA, Target, General Mills elect new chairman of the board, Darigold taps new CFO, and more
ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS: The International Dairy Deli Bakery Association (IDDBA), Madison, Wis. Whitney Atkins was tapped as vice president of marketing, effective Nov. 27, responsible for telling the story of the association and driving member engagement. Atkins maintains more than 20 years’ experience in marketing communications. She most recently served as communications manager for the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, where she played a key role in all communications, including approaches and strategies, and oversaw all content creation for various platforms. The majority of Atkin’s career has been with Kroger Delta Marketing, where her positions ranged from merchandising, assistant advertising and marketing manager, loyalty analyst, and most recently, customer communications and marketing specialist. At Kroger Delta Marketing, she played a key role as a liaison among many teams to develop and communicate selling initiatives and programs for more than 100 retail grocery, pharmacy and fuel locations.
National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA), Harrisburg, Pa.
Dave Jones, vice president, industry initiatives, Kellogg Co., was elected chairman of the board for the 2018-2019 term. Jones has served on the board of directors since 2008, first as vice chairman, frozen from 2013-2016, then as secretary from 2016-2017 and chairman-elect from 2017-2018. Jones is also a member of the Honorable Order of Golden Penguins and Distinguished Order of Zerocrats. Joe D’Alberto, senior business manager for Acosta Sales & Marketing, was named chairman-elect; Neil Ritchey, senior vice president of sales and shopper marketing for Ajinomoto Foods North America, was elected secretary; Ray Tarnowski, president of Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage, was elected treasurer; Steve Mayle, vice president of sales for General Mills, was named vice chairman, frozen and Bob Knodle, vice president of sales for H.P. Hood, was elected vice chairman, refrigerated. Newly elected to the board of directors were Rob Cohen, vice president of refrigerated and frozen for Bozzuto’s; Kristina Cole, chief customer officer for Danone North America; George Denman, vice president of sales for Graeter’s Ice Cream; Michelle Dorin, director of dairy, frozen, specialty foods and beer for Weis Markets; Risa Jenkins, senior category manager for C&S Wholesale Grocers; Tim McNamara, director of dairy and frozen foods merchandising for Southeastern Grocers; Jeff Nelson, chief sales officer for IMPACT Group and Theresa Whitney, assistant grocery sales manager for Albertson’s - Intermountain. Elected for a second term on the board of directors were Joey Bates, director of grocery for Harris Teeter; Bob Bollbach, vice president of frozen for RDD Associates; Randall King, category manager for Lowes Foods; Jim Motos, vice president of sales and marketing for Rich’s Consumer Brands and Marty Steinmetz, vice president of national accounts for U.S. Cold Storage.