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Kendall J. Powell became president of General Mills in June 2006 and has overall global operating responsibility for the company.
Ken previously had been elected executive vice president and chief operating officer U.S. Retail in May 2005 and prior to that had been elected executive vice president of General Mills in August 2004 with responsibility for the company’s Meals Pillsbury USA Baking Products and Bakeries & Foodservice businesses.
From September 1999 to August 2004 Powell was chief executive officer of Cereal Partners Worldwide a General Mills/Nestlé joint venture with headquarters in Lausanne Switzerland.
Powell joined General Mills in 1979 as a marketing assistant and advanced through a series of assignments of increasing responsibility including positions in the Yoplait Betty Crocker and Big G cereal divisions and Cereal Partners Worldwide where he was marketing director from 1990 to 1996.
Powell was named marketing director for Cereal Partners UK based in the UK in 1990 then became vice president marketing director at CPW’s head office in Lausanne Switzerland. He returned to the United States in January 1996 to become president of Yoplait USA. Powell was named president of General Mills Big G division in October 1997 and appointed senior vice president of General Mills in May 1998.
Powell serves on the boards of Cereal Partners Worldwide and the Twin Cities United Way.
Powell earned his bachelor of arts degree in biology from Harvard in 1976 and his MBA from Stanford University in 1979.
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