BENSON
Jodi
Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer at General Mills
Organization: General Mills
Profession: Chief Innovation Offcer
Biography
Jodi Benson is Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer at General Mills.
Career
As Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, Jodi Benson is responsible for the invention and commercialization of new food products and technologies which provide increasingly higher levels of well-being, ease and joy to meet consumers evolving food values.
Most recently, Benson served as leader for our integrated ITQ Centers of Excellence, focused on the broad set of capabilities most critical for General Mills’ ongoing success, such as Food Safety, Nutrition, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs as well as Product Design & Innovation. It is the mission of this team to turn possibilities into realities.
Benson has held multiple positions within ITQ which include leading the International Growth Team, living in France while leading the Global Fresh Dairy for Yoplait and Häagen-Dazs, Baking and Strategy & Innovation. Benson joined General Mills in 1990 as a Scientist II in R&D in the Pillsbury Division.
Education
Benson received her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.
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