Bio Details

Joan Chow was appointed to our Board in April 2021. From February 2016 until October 2021, Ms. Chow served as Chief Marketing Officer of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. From 2007 to August 2015, Ms. Chow was the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at ConAgra Foods, Inc. ConAgra Foods, now known as Conagra Brands, is one of North America’s leading packaged food companies. Prior to joining ConAgra in 2007, Ms. Chow was employed for nine years with Sears Holdings Corporation in various marketing positions of increasing responsibility, having served as Senior Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer of Sears Retail immediately prior to taking the position with ConAgra. Prior to that, she served in executive positions with Information Resources Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Inc. Ms. Chow is a director at Energy Recovery, Inc., where she is on the Audit Committee and chairs the Compensation Committee, and is a director at High Liner Foods, where she chairs the Audit Committee. She has previously served as Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Governance Committee at Welbilt Inc., and as a director of The Manitowoc Company, RC2 Corporation and Feeding America. Ms. Chow has extensive leadership experience in retail and consumer packaged goods marketing, advertising, branding, consumer insights, and digital/social marketing and human resources matters. Ms. Chow has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with distinction from Cornell University. Ms. Chow currently serves as a member of our Audit Committee.