Valerie Oswalt Appointed President, US Sales for Mondelēz International

Valerie Oswalt has been named President, U.S. Sales at Mondelēz International, effective April 1, 2015. In this role, she will lead all direct-store-delivery retail and customer headquarter activities for the company’s snacks and confectionery businesses in the United States, supporting a product portfolio that generates annual revenues of approximately $6 billion and includes beloved consumer brands such as belVita, Halls, Honey Maid, Oreo, Ritz, Sour Patch Kids, Stride, Trident, Triscuit and Wheat Thins. She will be based in East Hanover, N.J. Valerie joined the company in 1996 as a sales finance analyst, based in Chicago and has progressed through a broad range of cross-functional roles within the Customer Team, Retail, Supply Chain, Strategy and Finance organizations, in both field and headquarters assignments. Most recently, Valerie was vice president, sales, west area, a position to which she was appointed in 2012. Prior to that, she spent a year as customer vice president for business development, playing a key leadership role in establishing two distinct, world-class Customer Teams and Retail Sales organizations to support the Kraft Foods/Mondelēz International businesses as they divided into two independent public companies. Among her many career highlights, Valerie held the role of Walmart customer vice president of beverage and grocery from 2008 to 2010, during which she and her team delivered unprecedented successive revenue and share growth for the business and were named Walmart’s “Supplier of the Year.” Valerie received her Bachelors of Arts degree in economics and accounting from Queens College in New York and is a Certified Public Accountant. Valerie worked for two years as a Senior Accountant in the Securities Business Unit at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Later, she obtained her MBA in marketing, strategy and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Valerie serves as the Mondelēz International Ambassador to the Network of Executive Women and is the Executive Advisor to the Mondelēz International Women’s Sales Council. She also serves on the Northern California Board of the non-profit organization City of Hope.