Dean Foods Company has a new senior vice president who’s also the chief procurement officer for their dairy group. The announcement was made yesterday.

Holcomb joins the company from the turnaround management team at Royal Group Technologies Limited (RGTL), a leading producer of polymer-based building materials, where he was senior vice president of global materials and supply. At RGTL he had P&L responsibilities for RGTL’s chemicals plants in North America and operations in China, and managed procurement and supply as well as the overall project management function for the company.