Alex Gonnella has been appointed Group Marketing Director for Nestlé UK & Ireland.
He joins the food giant’s Leadership Team after five years as Marketing Director for Nestlé Confectionery UK & Ireland.
In his new role, Gonnella will be responsible for leading Nestlé’s marketing team, servicing all categories.
The company noted that he brings with him a wealth of marketing experience, along with strong people and commercial leadership skills.
Gonnella has worked for Nestlé for 17 years, having joined its pet care business Nestlé Purina in 2005. He has held global positions including European Grocery Marketing Director for Purina in Switzerland, as well as a VP Generating Demand Asia, Oceania & Africa, based in Australia. In 2014 he returned to the UK as Head of Marketing for Northern Region Purina.
Speaking about his new role, Gonnella said: “It is tremendously exciting to work in a business that has the breadth and scope of Nestlé, with such great opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of consumers, shoppers, customers and environment at scale.
“We have amazing people in our business and a clear focus of mine is to create an environment which supports them to thrive and achieve their full potential, whilst focusing relentlessly on the real, external world.”
Earlier this week, Nestlé’s Nespresso coffee brand named Anna Lundstrom as its new Chief Executive for the UK and Ireland. Meanwhile, Nicolas Wahli was recently appointed as Managing Director of Nestlé’s Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW) UK & Ireland unit.
