The Kraft Heinz Company announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Diane Gherson as a director, effective November 3, 2022. The Board also appointed Gherson to the Board's Compensation Committee. As IBM's CHRO, Gherson was responsible for the people and culture of IBM's more than 340,000-person workforce covering approximately 175 countries.

In 2020, Gherson's last year at the company, IBM was ranked #3 on Forbes 2020 World's Best Employer list and #3 on the Wall Street Journal Management/Drucker Institute 2020 Best Managed Companies. During her tenure as CHRO, IBM was engaged in a transformation and portfolio shift. Gherson oversaw the digital transformation of the company's HR function, incorporating AI and automation across the company's offerings, resulting in significant company savings.

She championed the company's global adoption of design thinking and agile methods at scale, as an example, driving a company-wide overhaul of performance management. Diane has also been an external advocate for social issues affecting employees. Gherson is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and serves on the board of the National Academy of Human Resources.

She also previously served on the board of Ping Identity Holding Corp., a software company, until it was acquired in October 2022.