Mondelez International, Inc.
Leadership History
3 leaders · 2012 to present
Dirk Van de Put is the CEO of Mondelez, in the role since 2017. The first chief executive was Irene Rosenfeld, from 2012.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amit Banati | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | 2026 | Present | < 1 |
| Dirk Van de Put | Chair and Chief Executive Officer | 2017 | Present | 9 |
| Irene Rosenfeld | Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer | 2012 | 2017 | 5 |
Mondelēz International is one of the world's largest snack companies, headquartered in Chicago and listed on Nasdaq as MDLZ. It sells in more than 150 countries, operates in about 80, employed about 91,000 people at the end of 2025, and runs roughly 145 principal manufacturing facilities. Its portfolio centers on biscuits and chocolate, with Oreo, Cadbury, Milka and Ritz among its largest brands. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Mondelez manufactures and sells branded snacks: biscuits and baked snacks (Oreo, Ritz, LU, belVita, Chips Ahoy!, Tate's, 7Days), chocolate (Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Côte d'Or), gum and candy (Halls, Sour Patch Kids, Ricolino) and smaller beverage and cheese & grocery lines. Biscuits and chocolate generate the large majority of revenue. It sells to supermarkets, discounters, convenience stores, wholesalers and e-commerce, and in the US uses a direct-store-delivery network for biscuits so it controls shelf stocking. In 2025, 75.8% of net revenues came from outside the United States.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
2026 – Present
0 years (current)
Banati aggressively scaled Mondelez's presence in the highly lucrative Asia Pacific region, specifically driving massive distribution for Oreo and Cadbury in India and China.
Before becoming CFO, he served as President of the AMEA region, establishing it as the company's fastest-growing and most resilient geographic division.
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
2017 – Present
9 years (current)
He shifted the company from heavy cost-cutting toward local brand investment, bought Chipita, Clif Bar and Ricolino in 2022, sold the developed-market gum business in 2023, and raised prices to offset record cocoa costs in 2024-2025.
Van de Put refocused Mondelez on chocolate, biscuits and baked snacks, decentralized decisions to regional teams, and grew net revenues from about $25.9B in 2017 to $38.5B in 2025. Since June 2026 he has also chaired AB InBev's board.
Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer
2012 – 2017
5 years
She led Kraft's $19.5 billion acquisition of Cadbury in 2010, the 2012 separation of the grocery and snacks businesses, and the 2015 combination of Mondelez coffee with D.E Master Blenders to form JDE.
Rosenfeld created Mondelez through the 2012 Kraft split and led it through its first five years, a period marked by zero-based budgeting and activist pressure from Trian and Pershing Square.
Mondelez faces record cocoa inflation, consumer price sensitivity, private-label competition, retailer bargaining power, currency volatility, supply-chain scrutiny, Russia-related criticism, health and nutrition pressure, and execution risk from a large international portfolio.
Irene Rosenfeld served as CEO and Chairman of Kraft Foods from 2006 to 2012 and became the founding CEO of Mondelēz International upon its 2012 spin-off, leading until 2017. Rosenfeld orchestrated the hostile $19 billion acquisition of Cadbury in 2010 and boldly engineered the separation of Kraft's grocery and snack empires.
Appointed CEO in November 2017, Dirk Van de Put launched the 'Snacking Made Right' strategy: shifting the corporate culture from cost-cutting to consumer-centric revenue growth, completing major acquisitions (Clif Bar, Chipita, Ricolino, Give & Go), divesting the developed-market gum business, and expanding margins.
Amit Banati became EVP and CFO on July 1, 2026, succeeding long-time Mondelez executive Luca Zaramella.
Senior executives lead Mondelēz North America from Chicago, overseeing Direct-Store Delivery (DSD) operations, major retail customer partnerships (Walmart, Target, Kroger), and domestic biscuit bakeries.
Maurizio Brusadelli served as President of AMEA (Asia, Middle East & Africa) and Chief Commercial Officer, driving historic chocolate market share expansions in India and China, and scaling Cadbury Dairy Milk across emerging Asian consumer markets.
Van de Put reorganized Mondelēz into decentralized regional business units, giving local country managers full autonomy over product flavors, marketing campaigns, and retail pricing to ensure rapid adaptation to local consumer tastes.
CEO Dirk Van de Put and CFO Luca Zaramella deployed forward futures hedging, introduced portion-controlled packaging variations, optimized biscuit recipes, and implemented disciplined price increases to protect gross profit margins through historic West African crop shortages.
Van de Put wants Mondelez to grow mainly through chocolate, biscuits and baked snacks, emerging markets and selective bolt-on acquisitions, while restoring margins after the cocoa cost spike.
Dirk Van de Put became CEO of Mondelēz in November 2017, having previously served as CEO of frozen potato giant McCain Foods. Van de Put initiated the "Snacking Made Right" strategy, shifted decision-making authority closer to regional country leaders, expanded into health-conscious snacking (acquiring Clif Bar), and guided the company through severe global supply chain disruptions.
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