Kenneth C. Keller

Casey Keller has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since June 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Keller served from January 2020 to September 2020 as president and CEO of JDE Peet’s NV, a $7 billion global coffee and tea company with over 20,000 employees based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He led the merger of Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) and Peet’s Coffee, Inc. in December 2019 and the successful initial public offering of the combined company in May 2020. Prior to the merger, Mr. Keller was the president and CEO of Peet’s Coffee, a premium specialty coffee company based in California, from August 2018 to December 2019. Prior to joining Peet’s Coffee, Mr. Keller served as global president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc. He joined Wrigley in 2011 as president of Wrigley North America and later assumed responsibility for Wrigley Americas. Mr. Keller served as president of Alberto Culver USA from 2008 until the company’s acquisition by Unilever in 2011. He also worked at the H.J. Heinz Company in both the United States and Europe, leading the ketchup, condiments and sauces division in the United States and was the CEO of Heinz Italy. Mr. Keller began his consumer goods career with Procter & Gamble. From October 2017 until August 2018, Mr. Keller served as a director of Cott Corporation and as a member of its audit committee.