Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> December 18, 2000
HENRY J. (HANK) CARDELLO joined GalaGen, Inc., as President in January
1999 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in March 2000. Mr.
Cardello previously was President of Marketing Ventures America (MVA), a
new-products marketing firm specializing in commercializing consumer-
based nutritional products. During his 10-year tenure with MVA,
corporate partners included such well-known names as The Pillsbury
Company, Hormel Foods and The Quaker Oats Company. Mr. Cardello is the
former President of Sunkist Soft Drinks, Inc., a unit of Cadbury
Schweppes Plc, where he led a major restructuring that substantially
increased profitability and firmly positioned Sunkist within the soft
drink industry. Prior to Sunkist, Mr. Cardello served as the Director of
Marketing for Coca-Cola USA. Under his leadership, Diet Coke became the
third largest selling soft drink in America. Mr. Cardello also held
several brand management positions with Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and
General Mills. Mr. Cardello received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Engineering from Lehigh University and a Masters of Business
Administration from the Wharton Graduate School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania. Profile
Mr. Cardello: GalaGen actually was started in 1987 as a division of Land
O'Lakes, the dairy cooperative. The purpose of
