Amy’s Kitchen, the Petaluma, California-based producer and marketer of organic and vegetarian frozen foods including ready meals, entrees, pizza, pot pies, soups, burritos and wraps, has added five new leadership roles to its executive and management roster to support strategic goals and expansion.
Oksana Woloszczuk has been hired as chief supply chain officer, while Steve Kravariotis and David Griego have respectively signed on as vice president of supply chain planning and senior director of engineering. On the human resources and communications fronts, Goretti Hamlin returns to the company as vice president of human resources, and Felicia Collins has been recruited as senior director of communications.
“Our business is increasingly complex with a growing workforce of over 2,600 people who produce hundreds of thousands of meals a day. We want to make sure needs are met and we’re able to source and manage a global network of organic farmers, processors, and ingredients. The new roles will help us do that,” said Andy Berliner, Amy’s chief executive officer.
Woloszczuk comes to Amy’s with 30 years of experience in operations, business expansion, strategic planning and P&L accountability. She was most recently vice president in charge of the integrated supply chain in North America at McCain Foods, leading all aspects of safety, quality, continuous improvement, supply chain and engineering for operations in the United States and Canada. Before that she spent over 11 years with Kellogg’s in successive leadership positions.
Kravariotis brings to Amy’s over three decades of experience in sales and operations planning, demand planning, supply planning, scheduling and materials planning. He has held leadership positions at Avon Products, The Clorox Company, Delmonte/Big Heart Pet Brands, and Bio-Rad Laboratories.
Griego joins the company with more than 30 years of food and beverage manufacturing knowhow that will help streamline plant operations and utilize automated manufacturing systems. His past roles include senior director of engineering at Del Real Foods, vice president of engineering for Passport Foods, director of engineering at Ruiz Foods, and senior director of engineering for Sugar Foods.
Hamlin rejoins Amy’s to oversee HR department, where she will further build and develop the workforce. The returnee previously spent 16 years at Amy’s leading employee-centric initiatives for the manufacturing sites.
Collins comes to the company with over 20 years of experience building and leading communications in the food, health and wellness sectors. Her past roles include head of marketing for Kiss the Ground and vice president of communications at Tyson Foods. In addition, she was senior vice president and group manager at Edelman, working Walmart, Darden Restaurants and other food clients.
