Hostess Brands names Callahan president, CEO
Hostess Brands has announced that its board of directors has named Andrew Callahan as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective May 7, 2018.
Hostess Brands has announced that its board of directors has named Andrew Callahan as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective May 7, 2018. He will replace C. Dean Metropoulos, the company’s executive chairman, who has been serving in the expanded role of interim president and CEO since March 31, 2018. Metropoulos will remain executive chairman of the board of directors. Callahan has also been appointed as a director on the board of directors.
Callahan joins the company with more than 23 years of executive leadership experience serving in key consumer packaged goods industry roles at Tyson Foods, Hillshire Brands, Sara Lee, and Kraft Foods.
“We are delighted to welcome Andy to the Hostess team. He is a very accomplished consumer packaged goods executive with strong experience in leading brands, and we welcome his leadership and brand and innovation expertise as we continue to further build our distribution and market share in the sweet baked goods category,” said Metropoulos. “We believe Andy has the right combination of entrepreneurial and strategic leadership and people management skills to lead Hostess into our next phase of growth and build value for our stockholders.”