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Prior to joining Kraft Heinz, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of America Latina Logistica (ALL) from 2010 to 2012. The company also shifted its focus from pumping out scores of new products that often fall flat for Big Food brands to taking limited "big bets" on new products.

The company has hired investment bank Evercore Partners to prepare a potential sale of its frozen potato brand Ore-Ida, people familiar with the matter told CNBC Tuesday, adding that the business could fetch a valuation of roughly $1.5 billion to $2 billion. Minimum 15 minutes delayed. Fracking: The Unexpected Issue That Could Determine the 2020 Election, France, Germany Impose Lockdown Measures as Coronavirus Cases Rise. Still, Hees' departure raises questions of what went wrong at Kraft Heinz and how Patricio can fix it.

Marcos Eloi is the Chief Procurement Officer for The Kraft Heinz Company. Bruno holds a Degree in Economics from Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil, with a Masters in Sales and Marketing from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Brazil. A native of Puerto Rico, Carlos has held several council and board positions dedicated to diversity. Carlos Abrams-Rivera, Kraft Heinz’s head of U.S. business, told CNBC that the company would eliminate more than 1,000 products, amounting to 20% of its business, by the end of the year. Industry insiders and experts said 3G failed to invest enough in its brands, allowed relationships with retailers to deteriorate and lost crucial employees with in-depth knowledge of the food industry. Miguel was the Global Chief Marketing Officer at AB InBev from 2012-2018.

"My profile will bring a much more consumer-centric [vision]," Patricio told CNBC in an interview Monday.

Patricio has a big job ahead. He is credited with “accelerating organic sales growth to high single digits” for Corona, Budweiser and Stella Artois, which accounted for more than 20% of AB InBev’s 2018 year-end revenue. Prior to joining Kraft Heinz, Eloi spent 20 years at Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) serving in various leadership roles within the company’s procurement and sustainability function.

Industry insiders and experts say the cost-cutting approach by private equity firm 3G Capital fell apart because Kraft Heinz failed to invest enough in its brands. Since then, the stock has tanked some 32%.

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In his final year as chief marketing officer, AB InBev was the most awarded brand owner at the Cannes Lions awards for advertising and creative communications. All Rights Reserved. "We may have made a mistake in terms of trying to push hard against certain ... retailers and finding out that we weren't as strong as we thought," Buffett said on CNBC earlier this year. The company said it has not determined whether to change Basilio’s compensation with his shifting role to Kraft Heinz CFO. Under Hees, Kraft Heinz said it would sell brands that lacked a competitive advantage.

Send tips to csorvino@forbes.com. Despite not being a 3G partner, Patricio will be surrounded by executives of the firm, including CFO David Knopf, U.S. zone president Paulo Basilio and Chairman Alexandre Behring.

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He previously served as Zone President of the Kraft Heinz Europe, Middle East and Africa business and Managing Director of Kraft Heinz UK & Ireland. "They did have some small successes, like Just Crack an Egg, pulling out artificial ingredients, but overall, the efforts just weren't impactful enough in aggregate." WSJ Opinion: Why Is the Media Protecting Joe Biden? Miguel Patricio is the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Heinz Company.

All rights reserved. Miguel Patricio, who took over as chief executive in June, has hired executives experienced in food to lead Kraft Heinz’s operations and its U.S. business.

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Melissa received a degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and an MBA from Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. He began his career at Kraft Foods as an Assistant Brand Manager within Oscar Mayer, later serving in a broad range of management roles across categories, brands, and businesses.

It has also been hurt by the pressure retailers are facing as they react to their own competitive threats. Patricio has worked at AB InBev since 2006. In this role he was responsible for strengthening the partnership between brand building, innovation, sales and operations teams, and helped to accelerate commercial performance. The firm has been actively scouting out new acquisitions, people familiar with the situation say, including deals in the chemical sector — implying it's very much a believer in its strategy, despite the challenges at Kraft Heinz. We want to hear from you. While Kraft Heinz later got the contract back, its net sales of salted snacks that year fell 28 percent, according to FactSet. It also disclosed an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into its accounting and procurement practices.