AMERICOLD REALTY INC TRUST (COLD)
Sector: Real Estate
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Sector: Real Estate
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Director information for COLD
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| COLD | Director | 66 | ["REITs","Company Senior Leadership","Cyber Security"] | ["Finance & Accounting","Logistics","International","Compensation Committee","Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee","Investment Committee"] | 2026 |
Companies shown below are based on exact name match for the selected Director
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| UTZ | President, AFF Advisors, LLC; Board Member | 61 | ["Substantial supply chain and operations experience","Record of realizing cost efficiencies","Experience integrating acquisitions","Experience serving as a director of a public company"] | [] | 2021 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Fernandez has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2019. Mr. Fernandez currently is President of AFF Advisors, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in helping clients with supply chain operational improvements, as well as supporting merger and acquisition due diligence and integrations. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Pinnacle Foods, Inc. (formerly NYSE: PF), now a part of Conagra Brands, Inc., from February 2011 through June 2016. At Pinnacle, Mr. Fernandez had overall corporate responsibility for the end-to-end supply chain, including procurement, manufacturing, customer service, warehousing, and distribution. He also oversaw Pinnacle s continuous improvement, network optimization, innovation commercialization, food quality and safety programs. Prior to joining Pinnacle in 2011, Mr. Fernandez was Senior Vice President Operational Excellence at Kraft Foods Inc., now The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ: KHC), following its acquisition of Cadbury, PLC in March 2010, where he oversaw the development and implementation of best practices across global operations. Mr. Fernandez was with Cadbury, PLC from 1998 to 2010 in a series of senior management positions, including Chief Supply Chain Officer, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company s global supply chain. He was also a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company and a senior consultant with The Canaan Group. Mr. Fernandez s early career included positions in manufacturing, distribution, procurement and engineering with The Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), and PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP). Mr. Fernandez is currently on the Board of Utz Brands, Inc. (NYSE:UTZ), a snack Food manufacturer, and is a trustee of Lafayette College. He previously served on the boards of Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LPT), until its acquisition by Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), Collier Creek (NYSE:CCH), a SPAC that combined with UTZ Quality Foods to form UTZ Brands, Inc., in August, 2020, and Green Rabbit Holdings, Inc., a privately-held logistics and fulfillment company for perishable, refrigerated and frozen foods, until it s acquisition by Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC). Mr. Fernandez received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College. We believe Mr. Fernandez s extensive experience in global supply chain management, his engineering, procurement and operations background and significant industry knowledge, including our customer base, as well as his other Board experience, qualifies him to serve on our Board.