Hain Celestial Group Inc. named Mark L. Schiller as its next president and CEO, following the retirement of current Chairman, President and Chief Executive Irwin D. Simon. It was previously announced that Simon would step down from his role as an executive of the company and would continue as a non-executive chairman once a successor was chosen.
Mark Schiller
Schiller will take up his new role atop the company’s leadership team on Nov. 5. He will also be nominated to join the food and personal care products company’s board of directors at the upcoming annual meeting of shareholders. It will be held on Dec. 5, at which point Simon will step down from the board and a new chairman will be named.
Schiller comes to Hain Celestial following 25 years of executive experience in consumer packaged food leadership roles at companies, including PepsiCo Inc., Jarden Corp., SlimFast, Haagen-Dazs and, most recently, Pinnacle Foods Inc., where he was executive vice president and chief commercial officer.
