Dirk Van de Put, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Mondelēz International
🏈 💸 Dirk Van de Put, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Mondelēz International
Since getting the top job in 2017, van de Put has pushed Mondelez into a variety of new areas, buying up insurgent brands like Perfect Snacks, Tate’s Bake Shop and Hu, and forming the company’s SnackFutures division, which is currently run by Tapan Shah. Most recently the company picked up CLIF, which gives Mondelez another powerful brand in the functional side of snacking. Despite looking to the future via doubling down on bakery items, under van de Put, the company has also kept focus on its cookie business: Oreo continues to grow and innovate while Belvita remains the standard-bearer for the breakfast cookie category.