American Outdoor Brands, Inc. announced that Luis G. Marconi, 55, has joined the company's Board of Directors as an independent director. Most recently as Group Vice President of Grocery Products at Hormel Foods Corporation, Marconi is an accomplished P&L leader, Fortune 500 corporate officer, and board member with over 34 years of leadership experience in the food and beverage industry in the United States and Latin America, with depth in strategy, M&A, joint ventures, and board governance. Marconi began his career with The Quaker Oats Company, where he served for nearly ten years as Group Product Manager for the company's Andean Region.

He then joined Hormel Foods, a $12 billion global branded food company based in Austin, Minnesota, where he built an accomplished 22-year career, initially as the Sales & Marketing Manager of Latin America, and most recently as Group Vice President of the $3+ billion Grocery Products division, the second larger of the company. He also led a Hormel Foods/Rica Rondo Joint Venture in Colombia in the late 1990's. Marconi graduated from Pontifical Xaverian University in Colombia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and received his MBA from Icesi University. He is also a graduate of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Executive Program in Minneapolis, Minnesota.