Dean Foods has named Brad Holcomb to be senior vice president and chief procurement officer for the company’s Dairy Group. Holcomb comes to the company with an extensive resume – welcome to the dairy industry Brad!
Holcomb joins the company from the turnaround management team at Royal Group Technologies Limited, a producer of polymer-based building materials, where he was senior vice president of global materials and supply.
At RGTL he had responsibilities for RGTL’s chemicals plants in North America and operations in China, and he managed procurement and supply as well as the overall project management function for the company. Prior to RGTL, Holcomb served for five years as vice president and chief procurement officer for Waste Management, North America’s largest waste disposal company, headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Holcomb previously led procurement and supply management organizations in two other companies. Prior to Waste Management, Holcomb was vice president of supply chain management at American Precision Industries, headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., and was vice president of global procurement and materials management at Praxair, Inc., headquartered in Danbury, Conn. Holcomb’s earlier career was with Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., where he spent over 20 years and held a broad range of management positions, including production control, manufacturing, international marketing and sales, product development and procurement. While at Kodak, he led the effort to globalize procurement by developing worldwide processes and best practices.