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**Greg McKelvey has been promoted to the new position of Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at Dean Foods.

**Reporting to Chairman and CEO Gregg Engles, McKelvey will continue to develop the company's strategic planning processes and capabilities, as well as lead the organisation's transformation efforts.

"This role is critical to Dean Foods as we accelerate our efforts to consolidate and integrate our many businesses," said Engles.

McKelvey is responsible for designing and delivering Dean Foods' key Strategic Growth Plan initiatives, as well as a careful, risk mitigating project management approach to initiative implementation, and tight linkage between strategy and key organisational capabilities, including information technology.

"Greg's prior experience at Accenture, Bain & Co, and more recently at WhiteWave, gives him a unique breadth and depth of experience in developing strategy and driving business improvement through the application of process and technology," said Engles.

"Over the past four years, Greg was instrumental in designing and implementing the WhiteWave strategy to combine three separate, subscale businesses into a premium national branded business group with a shared vision, supply chain and process infrastructure."