LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — The Hain Celestial Group announced Wednesday that Jerry Wolfe has been hired as the chief supply chain officer.  He will be responsible for leading the Company’s supply chain organization including supply chain planning, logistics, contract management, continuous improvement, plant operations and procurement.  He will report directly to Hain Celestial’s president and chief executive officer, Mark Schiller, and will be a member of the executive leadership team.

Wolfe is an accomplished supply chain executive with over 30 years of supply chain leadership experience and had been consulting with the company while it conducted a chief supply chain officer search. He has held executive level supply chain roles with McCormick & Company and Ernst & Young, and he will play in integral role in working with Schiller and the Hain Celestial’s executive leadership team to simplify the portfolio, strengthen capabilities, reinvigorate top line growth, and expand margins and cash flow.

Additionally, the independent compensation committee of the board of directors approved an inducement award for Wolfe.