Atkins Nutritionals Names CEO from Dean Foods

Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. announces that Joseph E. Scalzo has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Scalzo assumes the leadership of Atkins Nutritionals after 25 years of experience at major consumer product and beverage companies and will report directly to the board of directors. He succeeds Monty Sharma who remains on the company's board of directors.

 

Scalzo joins Atkins after departing Dean Foods where he served as its president and chief operating officer. He is credited at Dean for leading the transformation of its WhiteWave Foods Company, which began as three separate businesses, into a winning consumer foods company.

 

Prior to Dean Foods, Scalzo was a member of Gillette's senior management team and spearheaded the successful, three-year turnaround of the company's one billion dollar global personal care business. Before joining Dean Foods, Scalzo held various leadership positions at The Coca-Cola Company.

 

Scalzo began his career at Procter & Gamble in 1985. He currently serves on the board of directors of Earthbound Farms, a leading organic food company as well as being a director of Seacology, an island conservation non-profit. Scalzo joined Atkins Nutritionals in early February.