THE HERSHEY COMPANY - Key Persons
Gloria Frauenfelder is CFO, Hershey Trading. In this role, she has accountability for financial planning, cashflow and tax for Hershey International and leads the procurement finance of Hershey Trading.
Prior to joining Hershey, Frauenfelder worked for Kraft/Mondelez in their procurement office in Zug, Switzerland for more than 10 years. She led the global management and reporting of derivatives/compliance to drive profitable growth while leading strategic planning.
Frauenfelder holds a finance and administration degree and a Chartered Accounting/Controlling (CPA).
Job Titles:
- VP Finance, International
Graeme Fleckney is currently transitioning from his role as SVP Finance, IT and Transformation in Amplify to VP Finance, International. In this role, Graeme is responsible for the leadership of the International Finance teams, strengthening International Finance talent, steering the development and delivery of short- and long-term financial expectations as well as unlocking IT and process transformation opportunities to enable sustainable profitable growth.
During his time with Amplify, Graeme oversaw exponential topline, market share and bottom-line growth, drove multiple pricing strategies to counter inflation, successfully overhauled the Finance & IT team and drove the Transformation agenda to enable readiness for the Salty integration. He also played a critical role in the Dots / PI due diligence and acquisition process.
Prior to moving to Amplify, Graeme spent 17 years with Beiersdorf, the German multinational personal care company best known for the brands NIVEA, Eucerin, Aquaphor and Coppertone.
Most recently, Graeme served as Vice President, Global Integration. In his role he led the integration of the 2019 Coppertone acquisition across China, Canada and US. Prior to that, Graeme held the role of Vice President, Finance, over the North American business with responsibility for Finance, Accounting, IT and Legal operations.
Graeme has more than 20 years of experience as a Finance professional, starting his career in his native UK and working on assignments across Europe, Asia and South America before putting down roots in the United States in 2010 where he helped the company overachieve its profitable growth potential with particular focus on margin growth, commercial processes, quality analytics, SRGM thinking and business partnering.
Graeme graduated in the UK with a first-class bachelor's degree with honors in Business and Finance before gaining full accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. More recently he gained his MBA from Fordham University, New York.
After 11 years living in New York City, Graeme moved with his family to Austin in 2021.
Job Titles:
- General Manager Europe
- General Manager, Europe and
Jackson Hitchon is General Manager Europe and Hershey Trading. In this role, Hitchon is responsible for developing strategies and fostering partnerships that deliver accelerated, sustainable growth across Europe and the United Kingdom.
Hitchon is an international award-winning business leader. Prior to his current role, he was Head of Marketing for Hershey Canada, the company's second-largest market. He was honored to be deemed one of Canada's Top Marketers in 2019 by Strategy Magazine. He has also held the role of Director Customer Planning, Go to Market and Shopper Marketing on the Hershey Canada sales leadership team.
Hitchon holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He also earned a Bachelor of Administrative and Commercial Studies and an Accounting Diploma from Western University in London, Ontario. Hitchon currently lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and two daughters.
Rohit Grover is President, International, for The Hershey Company. In this role, he leads the vision, strategy and financial delivery for Hershey's International business (90 brands, 85 countries).
He most recently led Hershey's business in China as Vice President, General Manager, Greater China, where he led a major turnaround and restructuring of that business.
Previously, Grover ran Hershey's Global Walmart & club channels, where he drove sequential growth, reengaged stakeholders and created the club strategy while turning around this business. He was also Vice President Hershey Canada, where he transformed the business and culture, leading to accelerated growth.
Grover joined The Hershey Company in 1999 and held various leadership positions starting in sales in the Caribbean; business development in Russia and the UK; International Licensing; GM South East Asia; and General Manager, Middle East, where he led Hershey's entry into the region.
Grover began his career at Colgate Palmolive, India, in the Marketing group focusing on the Household Cleaning category, after which he moved to MTV, India.
An entrepreneur at heart, he is results-oriented, leads by empowering and enjoys growing businesses, developing high-performance teams, challenging the status quo, and working with diverse ethnic and socioeconomic groups. He does not shy away from making tough decisions.
A native of India, Grover holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and marketing from the University of Miami, graduating top of his class. In addition, he has attended several executive programs at the University of Chicago and Harvard Business School. He is currently based in Dubai with his wife and son. He loves to travel, bicycle, run and ski.
Job Titles:
- VP, International Supply Chain and S / 4
Subas Visvalingam is VP, International Supply Chain and S/4, a role he moved into in November 2021. In this role, he has accountability for leading and driving strategic supply chain operational plans for international markets including manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, demand/supply planning and import/export, as well as leading the S/4 transformation for Global Supply Chain. Prior to this role, Visvalingam was the Senior Director, ERP Global Supply Chain, and led the global S/4 program.
Before relocating to the U.S., Visvalingam was the Director, AEMEA (Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa) Supply Chain and the Malaysia Plant. He was accountable for developing an optimal supply chain network, providing reliable service through the order-to-cash process, and actively leading the Integrated Business Management (IBM) process in the areas of demand and supply planning. He successfully led the startup and stabilization of a greenfield manufacturing facility and regional distribution center in Malaysia that exports to more than 35 markets in AEMEA.
Visvalingam joins Hershey from Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he held product supply leadership positions in its Asia Skin & Personal Cleansing business unit and ASEAN market operations. He managed and successfully led the product supply integration of P&G and Gillette in ASEAN, Australasia and India.
Prior to P&G, Visvalingam gained management consultancy experience working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Consulting, project managing a wide variety of supply chain improvement assignments across Asia Pacific with major multinational consumer business and high-tech clients. He began his career as a Senior Test Product Engineer at National Semiconductor.Visvalingam received a Master of Business Administration degree from Cranfield University, United Kingdom, and a bachelor's degree in electronic and computer engineering from Malaysia. He is certified in production and inventory management (CPIM) from APICS USA.
Job Titles:
- Assistant General Counsel
- Director
- Assistant General Counsel, Director International
Vincent Walter is the Assistant General Counsel, Director International at The Hershey Company.
Prior to joining Hershey, Walter served as Head of Legal for the Middle East and North Africa division of Mercedes-Benz Middle East FZE UAE. He brings more than 15 years of broad, cross-industry global experience in the areas of Corporate & Commercial, Employment, Contract Law, Finance, M&A and Compliance. He has extensive legal, strategic and operational expertise and has worked with multiple international companies.
Walter holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Salzburg and a degree in law studies from Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria. He is fluent in English, German and French.