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Biography

Early life

He graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Career

From 1979 to 1987, he worked for

RKO General RKO General, Inc. (previously General Teleradio, RKO Teleradio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio) was, from 1952 through 1991, the main holding company for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganiz ...

, including its subsidiary

GenCorp Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. is a holding company of Aerojet Rocketdyne, an American manufacturer of rocket, hypersonic, and electric propulsive systems for space, defense, civil and commercial applications. Aerojet traces its origins to the ...

. From 1987 to 1989, he was Chief Financial Officer of RKO Pictures. He joined

The Pepsi Bottling Group The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. was the world's largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages. PBG sales of Pepsi-Cola beverages accounted for more than one-half of the Pepsi-Cola beverages sold in the United States and Canada and about 40 percent worl ...

in 1989. He served as Chief Financial Officer from 1998 to 2000, President and Chief Operating Officer from 2000 to 2001, Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2003, Chairman and CEO from 2003 to 2006, and Executive Chairman from 2006 to 2007. He has been an industrial partner at the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings since 2008. Since February 2009, he has served as Chairman of

Hostess Brands Hostess Brands is an American-based bakery company formed in 2013. It owns several bakeries in the United States that produce snack cakes under the Hostess and Dolly Madison brand names and its Canadian subsidiary, Voortman Cookies Limited, pr ...

. He became Executive Chairman of Kraft Foods Group, a subsidiary of

Mondelēz International Mondelez International, Inc. ( ), often styled Mondelēz, is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding and beverage and snack food company based in Chicago. Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in ...

, in January 2012. He sits on the Board of Directors of Colgate-Palmolive,

and

Legg Mason Legg Mason was an American investment management and asset management firm headquartered in Baltimore, founded in 1899 and acquired by Franklin Templeton Investments as of July 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the company had $730.8 billion in as ...

. He served as Chairman of the American Beverage Association. He serves on the Boards of the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the Woodward/White Publishing Company, and the Industry Affairs Council of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. He is a member of G100, a private group of chief executives from the world's largest companies. In December 2014 John Cahill was named CEO of Kraft foods. In March 2015, it was announced that Kraft Foods would merge with Heinz to form

Kraft Heinz The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz, is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and beverage ...

. Cahill became vice chairman of the new merged company.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cahill, John T. Living people Harvard Business School alumni American chief executives of food industry companies Colgate-Palmolive PepsiCo people Place of birth missing (living people) Kraft Foods people Hostess Brands American chief financial officers 1950s births