Pyxus International, Inc. Appoints Fernanda Goncalves as New Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
January 20, 2023 at 10:48 am EST
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Pyxus International, Inc. announced Fernanda Goncalves as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Fernanda joins Pyxus with more than 20 years of global human resources and business experience, most recently serving as global HR head at Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has also held positions with multinational companies including BASF, Hamburg Süd and Ernst & Young.
Fernanda has a Master of Business Administration from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, a master's degree in supply chain management from Universidade Mackenzie in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Salvador in Salvador, Brazil. In addition to her professional experience, Fernanda serves as a board member of the National Hispanic Corporate Council, working to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategies, talent acquisition goals, and employer branding and talent strategies.
Pyxus International, Inc. is an agricultural company. The Company is a provider of sustainable and traceable products and ingredients. The Company operates through its Leaf segment. Its core business includes tobacco leaf merchant business, purchasing, processing, packing, storing and shipping tobacco to manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products around the world. Its leaf tobacco operations deal primarily in flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos that are used in international cigarette brands. It processes tobacco in Company-owned and third-party facilities around the world, including in Argentina, Brazil, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Macedonia, Malawi, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zimbabwe. Throughout the entire production process, from seed through processing and final shipment, its SENTRI traceability platform provides clear visibility into how products are produced throughout the supply chain, supporting product integrity.