Irene Rosenfeld

Irene Blecker Rosenfeld ( May 3, 1953 as Irene Blecker, New York) is an American manager and since 2006 CEO of Kraft Foods or Mondelez International. Forbes listed in October 2011 as the tenth most powerful woman in the world.

Rosenfeld grew up on Long Iceland as a child of an accountant and a housewife, whose Jewish parents had immigrated from Germany. Their paternal grandparents were Romanian Jews. She studied at Cornell University until the acquisition of the Bachelor's degree in psychology. In addition, she earned the degree of Master of Science in Business Administration and a PhD in marketing and statistics.

Your first job was Rosenfeld at the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in New York. In 1981 she began at General Foods as a market researcher. She worked as a product manager up until 1985, the Group purchased by the tobacco company Philip Morris and in 1995 merged with force. Rosenfeld, now head of the beverage division at General Foods, was subsequently charged with the conduct of the business in Canada of the new food giant. Your responsibility then expanded in the following years to Mexico, Puerto Rico, and eventually the entire North American leg of force. An important milestone was the acquisition of Keksherstellers Nabisco in 2000

Mid-2004 Rosenfeld as CEO to the PepsiCo Group belonging smaller food producers Frito- Lay. Upon her return to power it came on 26 June 2006 at their office as Managing Director and CEO. In early 2007 she took the prepared for years separation from Altria.

In 2009 she won the Kraft board of the competitor Nestlé to sell the American frozen pizza business.

With the purchase of the British chocolate maker Cadbury in early 2010 succeeded under Kraft Foods Irene Rosenfeld to become the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world. Since July 2011, she had developed a plan to place the North American grocery business under the name of Kraft Foods in the stock market. The international food business, including confectionery is brought to the market as foundation named Mondelez. As of October 1, 2012 Irene Rosenfeld changes in the chairmanship of this split-off of Kraft Foods foundation Mondelez International.

Irene Rosenfeld has two adult daughters from his marriage to Philip Rosenfeld died in 1995. She is married to investment banker Richard Illgen. She lives in Chicago on Lake Michigan.