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Arnold G. Langbo was elected a director of Whirlpool Corporation in April 1994. He is a member of the human resources and audit committees of the board of directors.
Langbo is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Kellogg Company, where he retired from in 2000. He had spent his entire professional career with Kellogg, including 18 of the first 21 years in the company's Canadian subsidiary. He joined Kellogg's as a sales representative in 1956 and transferred to the international division in Battle Creek in 1967. In 1969 he was appointed administrative assistant to the president, and then returned to Canada as an executive vice president of the Canadian company. After two years as president and CEO of Kellogg's Salada Canada, Ltd., he was named president of the company's U.S. Food Products Division in 1978, and in 1983, he was named president of Mrs. Smith Frozen Foods, and later its chairman and CEO. He was named president of Kellogg International, and in 1990, was elected president, CEO and director of the Kellogg Company.
Langbo, a native of Canada, attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He and his wife Martha have eight children.
He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson, the Hershey Company, the Weyerhauser Company and the International Youth Foundation. | 