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Charisse Ford Hughes

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Charisse Ford Hughes

Director since October 2020

Charisse Ford Hughes currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Growth Officer of Kellanova (formerly known as Kellogg Company), where she is responsible for building global strategies for the company’s portfolio of snack and cereal brands. Prior to this role, Ms. Ford Hughes served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Brand & Advanced Analytics Officer of Kellanova from March 2022 to May 2023. Before joining Kellogg, Ms. Ford Hughes led the transformation of Pandora Jewelry’s digital marketing efforts, resulting in improvements in brand strength, brand equity, and omni-retail performance as Chief Marketing Officer for the Americas region. Ms. Ford Hughes has also held senior marketing and leadership positions at consumer brands including Avon Products, Inc., the Sara Lee Corporation and Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., where, as Senior Vice President, she drove all product, consumer, and digital marketing for the global cosmetics brand. Ms. Ford Hughes currently serves on the board of the Baltimore Development Corporation and serves as a board advisor to Pixability, a video advertising platform company. She earned an undergraduate degree in Finance from Howard University and her MBA in Finance and Marketing from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.