NEWS

Industry executives elected to NEW leadership team

CHICAGO – The Network of Executive Women elected senior executives from throughout the retail and CPG industry to its board and executive committee here at the organization’s Spring Board of Directors Meeting May 5.

Elected to the executive committee were Michael Gorshe, Executive Director, Consumer Goods and Services for Accenture; and Bobbie O’Hare, Vice President, Advertising and Business Development, for Johnson O’Hare Companies. Gorshe was previously an at-large member of the Network’s board of directors.

Elected board members at large were: Trudy Bourgeois, President and CEO of the Center for Workforce Excellence; Stephen J. Caldeira, Vice President, Industry Relations, for PepsiCo, Inc.; Kathy Casey, Vice President, Convenience and Drug Channel, Kellogg Company; Linda Dillman, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; and Lucille (Luci) M. Sheehan, President of Wendell Park Associates.

Elizabethe Bogart, Vice President, Strategic Industry Initiatives for the National Association of Convenience Stores, continues on the board and was named secretary.

“We are proud that these busy executives have honored the Network with their time and reputations,” NEW President Kimberly Betts said. “Their commitment and vision will make NEW’s mission that much more successful in the months and years ahead.” More