Miguel Patricio

CEO of the Kraft Heinz Company

Miguel Patricio is the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Heinz Company. Prior to Kraft Heinz, Miguel spent 20+ years at Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), where he served in various positions. Miguel was the Global Chief Marketing Officer at AB InBev from 2012-2018. In this role, he developed and implemented a strategic playbook for global brands Corona, Budweiser and Stella Artois, accelerating organic sales growth on a great scale. Prior to that, he was AB InBev's President of Asia Pacific from 2008 to 2012 and President of North America from 2006 to 2008. Before his career at AB InBev, Miguel held a variety of leadership positions at other global consumer packaged goods companies including Philip Morris, The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.

The Kraft Heinz Company is a globally trusted food producer. In 2015, Kraft and Heinz reached the company merger agreement to set up the Kraft Heinz Company, which became the 5th largest food and beverage company in the world. In 2020, its net sales revenue exceeded $26 billion U.S dollars, ranking the 466th among the Fortune Global 500 companies in 2021. Since Heinz set its footprints in China in 1984, Kraft Heinz has been committed to providing Chinese consumers with safe, healthy and nutritious foods for more than 30 years, including infant foods and both Chinese and Western sauces and condiments with the domestically and globally well-received brands of Heinz, Weishida, Guanghe and Meiweiyuan. In 2020, Kraft Heinz relocated its Asian headquarters from Singapore to Shanghai, China. Kraft Heinz started its investments in Shandong in 1999 by operating the Heinz (Qingdao) Food Co., Ltd. which has been producing infant foods and sauces and condiments.