TreeHouse Foods: Appoints Member to Board of Directors

Oak Brook / IL. (thf) TreeHouse Foods Inc. announced it has expanded its Board from eight to nine members with the appointment of Linda K. Massman, 49, President and Chief Executive Officer of Clearwater Paper Corporation, a publicly traded company, to its Board of Directors.

Sam K. Reed, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TreeHouse Foods, said, «We are pleased to welcome Linda Massman to our board. She brings extensive management experience in finance and business strategy development, and has a great deal of knowledge of the manufacturing and retail grocery industries. I am confident that her background will be instrumental to TreeHouse».

Massman was elected Clearwater Paper’s Chief Executive Officer in 2013 and served as President and Chief Operating Officer since 2011. Prior to that, Massman served as the company’s Chief Financial Officer from 2008 to 2011. Before joining Clearwater Paper, she served as group vice president of finance and corporate planning for Supervalu Inc., following its acquisition of Albertson’s Inc., where she served in a similar capacity. Prior to that, Massman was a business strategy consultant for Accenture.

Massman serves on the Board of Directors of Clearwater Paper Corporation and Black Hills Corporation. In 2016, she was elected as the first vice chairwoman for the American Forest + Paper Association. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from The University of North Dakota and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.