Core-Mark has added a ninth member to its Board of Directors.
Laura Flanagan has been appointed to the Board of Directors for Core-Mark Holding Co. Inc. This new appointment increases the size of Core-Mark’s Board from eight to nine members.
In her new position, Flanagan will serve as an independent director under the Board’s appointment for a term that expires on the date of Core-Mark’s 2017 annual meeting of stockholders.
“We are very pleased to have Laura join our board,” said Randolph Thornton, chairman of the Board of Core-Mark. “She brings twenty years of experience as a marketing and consumer products executive where she developed game-changing growth strategies, drove cost and margin improvements and implemented successful and innovative marketing programs.”
Flanagan, 48, was the president of the Snacks Division of ConAgra Foods Inc., a packaged foods company headquartered in Omaha, Neb. from 2011 until 2014, and served as president of ConAgra’s Convenient Meals Division from 2008 until 2011. Prior to joining ConAgra in 2008, Flanagan was vice president and chief marketing officer for Tropicana Shelf Stable Juices at PepsiCo Inc. from 2005 to 2008. Flanagan also held various marketing leadership positions at General Mills Inc. and PepsiCo Inc. from 1996 to 2005.
Flanagan has a B.S. in Systems & Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also completed the Corporate Governance Executive Education Program at the Kellogg School of Management.