President, GMCR Specialty Coffee Business Unit

Scott McCreary has been with the Company since September 25, 2004, and serves as President of GMCR's Specialty Coffee Business Unit.  Scott is responsible for all activities related to coffee products, the growing family of brands and broadened geographic scope as the result of the Company's recent acquisitions.  Additionally, Scott serves as a member of the GMCR Enterprise Leadership Team.

From 1993 until joining GMCR, Scott was employed by Unilever North American and its subsidiaries. Most recently, Scott served as the Senior Director of Operations at Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., where he was successful in leading collaborative efforts to identify and implement initiatives to streamline the work and increase profitability.

Scott has more than 25 years of strategic operational and business development experience within the consumer packaged foods industry, with a proven track record of improving capacity utilization, operating efficiencies, quality and profitability. His experiences also include positions with Kraft General Foods, M&M Mars and Pillsbury, in operations, new product development, and research and development. Scott holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Minnesota and a BS in engineering from the University of Wisconsin.