Pete Tridone

• Leading the global business transformation of the Sales & Marketing function within the overall business transformation program. • Achieved solution launch within project timeline, customization limits, project budget parameters while meeting business expectations of improving speed to market. • Leading the Sales & Marketing business software transformation to SAP S4 Hana from SAP ECC. • Leading a team of twelve McCormick and Accenture employees, consisting of business subject matter experts, IT experts and Consultants. • Led Sales & Marketing’s Commercialization function’s selection, configuration, design and deployment of Cloud Coach, a Portfolio and Project Management application on Salesforce.com. • Project Manager for designing Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) generation functionality and deployment activities • Project manager for Global Trade Identification Number (GDSN) functionality and led project plan for integration data integration from McCormick systems into Salsify PIM application for configuration and syndication into GS1 providers; ECCNET and 1WorldSync. • Partner closely with IT leadership to ensure that the current implementation is completed in line with the project parameters and that access and security are maintained as part of the solution deliverables. • Collaborated with program level resources for change management and training development and delivery to achieve user adoption feedback targeted metrics. • Provided on-site support of McCormick’s EMEA Giotti (Italy) business during pre-launch activities. Shared S&M global transformation vision and identified areas of focus to maintain high customer responsiveness and built relationships to facilitate high solution adoption

• McCormick’s Chief Information Officer (Ken Thomas at the time) requested me from within the business to lead McCormick’s stabilization efforts for the CAS trade promotion management system. • Achieved improved stability, improved business and IT relationships, accountability of the managed service partner, and work was completed within budget • Project Manager for all aspects of the contractual relationship with Wipro Ltd, a managed service provider, supporting the US CAS TPM instance, including contract negotiation, contract performance, milestone adherence and contractually required documentation. • Led cross-functional team, including managed services partner, in assessment and strategy development of CAS TPM to improve system stability and achieve deployment benefits • Led senior management steering committee progress report meetings • Led Management Committee assessment and recommendation for the preferred trade promotion solution for the McCormick US Consumer business.

• Project Manager for the implementation of Salesforce.com Sales Cloud in McCormick’s Canada, U.S. and Mexico locations. o Led Salesforce.com yearly strategy and enhancements activities; Pipeline dashboards, Price request/response, Price letters, tour requests, Sample request, R&D integrations, Marketing requests o Led annual maintenance contract negotiations & prioritizations o Attended Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco • Led team of seven Commercialization Managers o Responsible for the cost-effective commercialization of custom designed food formulas while meeting customer expectations on timing and volumes.  This team commercialized hundreds of products each year for internal customers, restaurant customers, manufacturer customers and food service customers o Created Commercialization scorecard & improvement assessment resulting in 15% improvement of on time and in full for new product launches. Also resulted in better customer and account manager accountability for the failures (customer and/or changing timing or volume or mix, or formulation changes late in the process) • Project Manager of dozens of complex multi-function RFP responses • Led Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability responses to strategic customers • Sales Operations & Commercialization lead on acquisitions; Brand Aromatics & French's • Conducted pipeline analysis, fill rates, win rates, conversion rates, customer performance, account manager performance, product line performance, cyclical nature and causes, project durations, lost opportunity analysis, • Conducted numerous ad hoc analysis; co manufactured products, discontinued products, slow moving products, new product introductions, sales incentive performance, changing sales assignment baselining and master data maintenance, export customer analysis, internal McCormick customer analysis, cross division customer analysis, customer order pattern analysis, customer driven material liability analysis.

• Led the division to achieve cost savings targets as reported to investors. • Led divisional approach to non-cogs savings/avoidance generation • Led cross-functional team to create and deploy cost saving and avoidance methods [Lean six sigma for Office, waste, loss, process mapping, value stream analysis] • Led cost improvement project teams o Seasoning VSA (value stream analysis) o Cost of Quality VSA o Oleoresin Rework processes CCI Team o Oleoresin, New Supplier, New Origin Team o Slob Management Assessment o Cross Border Regulatory CCI Team o Quality Sampling CCI Team o McCormick Ingredients Bid Spreadsheet Refresh o McCormick Ingredients Bid Upload Improvement o HR Compensation Process CCI Team o Pricing, Planned Cost versus Actual Cost CCI Team • Developed and deployed improvement principles, approach and monthly measuring and monitoring • Provided on-boarding support to improvement Managers from EMEA, Australia, Canada and China • Trained Customer Service department on DMAIC Problem Solving techniques • Designed the Customer Service Perfect Order Fulfillment analysis process o Enabled timely results on service performance, and categorization of failures and analysis over time. o Trained Customer Service department on Excel Pivot Table data analysis techniques

• Sales Operations Project Manager for SAP CRM/TPM implementation. o Trade Funds Management o Forecast Accrual Planning o Retail Audit on BlackBerry • Led cross functional user design and user acceptance teams of Finance, Shared Services, Marketing, Sales Planning, Sales [including Wal Mart, Military, Core, Diversified segments] • Project manager for the integration of acquisitions onto CRM platform; Zatarain’s & Simply Asia • Provided Consumer Division Management Operating Committee with regular updates on progress, performance, and budget • Created and executed a training, deployment and support program to deliver and enhance user adoption for 60+ internal account managers and 100+ broker business partners across the country • Received MKC Team of the Year award in 2006 for Sales Operations and Sales Planning, part of which was related to the work to implement CRM • Presented McCormick’s CRM implementation success story at SAP’s 2006 Sapphire User Conference in Orlando FL • Consumer Goods Technology Magazine, December 2008 issue, Published, with Dave Garriott, A Sales and Marketing Initiative Leads to Business Process Improvements for McCormick & Company

• Responsible for Profit & Loss performance of 25 commodities generating approx. $100M in sales • Managed by four commodity product managers • Collaborated to create a commodity price analysis thereby demonstrating cyclical nature of commodities, and identify up/down commodity drivers • Accompanied Account Managers on key account sales calls as Subject Matter Expert to present product line information and spice history and market analysis resulting in 10% annual new business growth • Collaborated with MKC Account Managers on selling and portfolio pricing strategies and competitor analysis and selling strategies • Collaborated with the McCormick’s supply chain network lead to analyze and propose a North American supply chain optimization and balancing. Used Excel’s analyzer tool to configure and execute the analysis, with constraints, to generate the baseline optimization recommendation. • Obipektin Product Manager. Developed business plan and collaborated with Account Managers to introduce the fruit and vegetable powders product line to over 35 customers across the US. • SAP Implementation Power User – Sales & Marketing representative on an SAP implementation team to configure SAP for use and manage cut over from legacy system

• Managed daily demand & supply planning activities of six planners • Created analysis to improve the lot run size efficiencies and line sequencing efficiencies • Initiated a ‘page and line’ review for purchased commodities to align the end-to-end process of demand signal to commodity buy cycles, to shipping/import timing, to clearing commodities through US Customs and finally available for manufacturing. • Collaborated with IT and Manufacturing to implement a new box line label generation application. Completed the project on time and within budget.

• Responsible for Manufacturing, Purchasing, Material Planning, Receiving, Shipping, Storeroom, Inventory, Staffing • Implemented systems and processes to improve inventory accuracy, reduce obsolete materials, improve manufacturing scheduling efficiencies. • Implemented an ERP software system, on time and in budget • Led sourcing on-site assessments for printed circuit boards, plastics components and smart card encryption suppliers. • Stabilized the vendor base and improved vendor relationships that resulted in more reliable schedules and better product quality

• CSS Power’s products were 1) cellular phone base station antennas, and 2) Power distribution bays, containing rectifiers, converters, breakers and bussing • Responsible for Manufacturing, Purchasing, Material Planning, Receiving, Shipping, Storeroom, Inventory, Staffing • Implemented systems and processes to improve inventory accuracy, reduce obsolete materials, improve manufacturing scheduling efficiencies. • Implemented an ERP software system, on time and in budget • Led sourcing on-site assessments for printed circuit boards, plastics components and smart card encryption suppliers. • Collaborate with internal customers, engineering, commercial, finance, customer service to understand and improve end to end businesses and to identify areas to measure and improve.