K. T. McCann

About K. T. McCann

Passionate R&D and Innovation leader, driven by an intuition to know good food and fueled by a technical strength to execute at scale. 20+ year career in food design and innovation with extensive end to end food development and team leadership across functions, food platforms, and brands with a high level of business understanding for consumer centric food design. Energetic leader, committed to inclusive talent development, team engagement, and organizational optimization.

Experience

1. Vice President, R & d and Innovation - North America

   Kellanova

   Oct 2023 — Present · Battle Creek, MI, US

   Leads a diverse, cross functional team of 120 technical professionals focused on delivering a balanced portfolio of top and bottom-line innovation across 5 food categories and multiple advantaged brands for Canada and US valued at >$300M annually.• Enables the organization to deliver consumer centric food solutions through focused capability programs for food & Pack design, Culinary & Sensory, Wellbeing & Regulatory, Innovation performance, and Portfolio Management.• Led R&D functional separation for Kellogg spins. Established fit for purpose operating models and organizational design for US based Kellanova and WK Kellogg Co R&D organizations.

Education

• Penn State University

  BS, Food Science

  1993 — 1997

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2002 — 2004

• The Ohio State University

  MS, Food Science

  1997 — 1999