UTZ BRANDS INC CLASS A (UTZ)
Sector: Consumer Staples
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Consumer Staples
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for UTZ
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTZ | President, AFF Advisors, LLC; Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer | 66 | ["Substantial supply chain and operations experience at several publicly traded consumer companies","Record of realizing cost efficiencies and integrating acquisitions","Experience serving as a director of a public company"] | [] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Fernandez has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since August 2020 and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Collier Creek from October 2018 to August 2020. Mr. Fernandez served as Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Pinnacle Foods, a packaged foods company, from February 2011 to June 2016, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of the supply chain including procurement, manufacturing, distribution, product quality, innovation and sustainability. Mr. Fernandez also led Pinnacle Foods maximizing value through productivity continuous improvement initiatives, realizing gross savings of approximately 4% of cost of products sold annually. Mr. Fernandez was a key leader and closely involved in Pinnacle Foods acquisition, integration and synergy realization efforts. Prior to Pinnacle Foods, Mr. Fernandez was Senior Vice President, Operations Excellence at Kraft Foods, Inc., an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, from 2010 to 2011. Prior to Kraft, Mr. Fernandez was Chief Supply Chain Officer at Cadbury PLC, or Cadbury, a British multinational confectionery company, from 2008 to 2010, where he managed a supply chain with total costs of approximately $7 billion, 67 manufacturing facilities and over 20,000 employees. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Fernandez held several senior supply chain roles within Cadbury. Prior to Cadbury, Mr. Fernandez held various supply chain and related roles at Dr. Pepper, an American multinational soft drink company, PepsiCo, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEP), an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation, and Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), an American multinational consumer goods corporation. Mr. Fernandez is currently the President of AFF Advisors, LLC, an independent consulting firm focused on improving supply chain performance, supporting acquisition due diligence and merger integrations. Mr. Fernandez was also a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company, an American worldwide management consulting firm, from July 2017 to August 2019. Mr. Fernandez served on the board of directors of Liberty Property Trust (NYSE: LPT), a leading industrial real estate investment trust, from November 2014 until its merger with Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), a real estate investment trust headquartered in San Francisco, CA, in February 2020 and Green Rabbit, a privately held leading e-commerce cold chain logistics provider to the food industry, from February 2021 through August 2023. Mr. Fernandez has served on the Board of Directors with Americold Realty Trust (NYSE: COLD), the world s largest publicly traded REIT, since May 2019; and as a Trustee of Lafayette College since May 2017. In May 2025, Mr. Fernandez earned a certificate for completion of NYU Law - Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence Cyber Security Scholar Program. Mr. Fernandez received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College.