Del Monte Brings on New Chief Supply Chain Officer

Ashish Mallick has been named senior vice president and chief supply chain officer at Del Monte Foods, reporting to president and CEO Greg Longstreet.

Most recently vice president, supply chain strategies and manufacturing transformation for Pinnacle Foods, Mallick will be responsible for all manufacturing, transportation and logistics, supply and demand planning, and engineering.

He has more than three decades of supply chain management experience, with previous leadership roles at Church & Dwight Co., Clairol and Dannon. With experience spanning across the food industry and household, personal care products, he’s led supply chain transformation, increased plant productivity and efficiency, managed system implementation and integration, and improved capacity utilization.

"Ashish brings tremendous supply chain experience to Del Monte Foods and will help lead our transformation efforts and the execution of our Asset Light strategy," said Longstreet in a statement. "Our supply chain continues to be at the heart of what we do at Del Monte and Ashish will help us continue our tradition of excellence as we modernize and contemporize our supply chain systems, structure, and process."

Del Monte recently brought on David Stis as senior vice president and chief customer officer.