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The J.M. Smucker Company
Mark Timothy Smucker is an American businessman who has been the president and CEO of The J.M. Smucker Company ( SJM ) since May 2016. He is the fifth-generation member of the Smucker family to lead the business, a now publicly traded Fortune 500 company encompassing coffee, packaged food, and pet food, headquartered in Orrville, Ohio.
Prior to his appointment as CEO, he had held executive positions since 2001 in the company's Canadian, international, special markets, coffee, consumer foods, and natural foods divisions, and had been a member of its board of directors since 2009. He had been in managerial positions at the company from 1997 to 2001.
After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1992, Smucker taught eighth-grade science in Alabama for two years. He then enrolled in the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, and had an internship in Mexico City one summer which also took him to Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile. After receiving his master's degree in international management in 1996, he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina to work for the advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide, working on Procter & Gamble accounts
Smucker lives in Akron, Ohio. He met his wife Katie during his work stint in Argentina in the late 1990s; at the time she was an American expat working in Mexico City and was on a business trip to Argentina.The couple married in 2000, and have two children.
He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. His hobbies include deejaying house music
mucker was born in born December 30, 1969 . the son of Timothy P. Smucker and the great-great-grandson of Jerome Monroe Smucker, who had founded The J.M. Smucker Company (Smucker's) in 1897. He grew up in Orrville, Ohio, where the company is headquartered.
Like most members of his extended family, he worked summers at the company when he was in middle school, high school, and college, doing a variety of jobs including janitorial work, quality control, marketing and sales, and procurement, and working in various departments at the corporate offices. Family members who wanted an executive career at the company were also expected to try something else first for at least two years, and to get a master's degree.
Smucker attended Orrville High School, graduating in 1988. He began composing electronic music in high school, and played in the school's band; his senior year he received the Louis Armstrong Jazz Band Award.
He attended the College of William & Mary, receiving a BS in Geology with a minor in English in 1992. In 1996 he received a Master of International Management degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona.
He began composing electronic music in high school, and played in the school's band; his senior year he received the Louis Armstrong Jazz Band Award.
