Edward D. Shirley serves as Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. Mr. Shirley attended the University of Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting degree in 1978. Mr. Shirley served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bacardi Limited, a global beverage and spirits company, from March 2012 to April 2014. Prior to that, he served as Vice Chairman of Global Beauty and Grooming, a business unit of The Procter & Gamble Company (“Procter & Gamble”), a consumer goods company, from July 2008 through June 2011, and as Vice Chair on Special Assignment from July 2011 through December 2011. Prior to that, he served as Group President, North America of Procter & Gamble from April 2006 and held several senior executive positions during his 27 years with The Gillette Company, a consumer goods company that was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 2005. Mr. Shirley has substantial experience in the areas of executive leadership, strategy development, marketing/brand development and business operations developed in his various senior executive positions with large consumer products companies, including during more than 30 years as a senior executive at global personal care companies like Procter & Gamble and The Gillette Company. He also has public company board experience, having served as a member of the Elizabeth Arden, Inc. board of directors since December 2015, including as Chair of its Compensation Committee, and as a member of the board of directors of Time Warner Cable Inc. from 2009 to 2016. Mr. Shirley is currently a director of New York Life Insurance Company and serves on the Audit and Insurance & Operations Committees. He is also a partner in PTW Capital, a consumer goods private equity firm.
As the Executive Chairman of the Board of Sysco, the total compensation of Edward Shirley at Sysco is $260,005. There are 20 executives at Sysco getting paid more, with Kevin P. Hourican having the highest compensation of $4,041,893.
Edward Shirley is 63, he's been the Executive Chairman of the Board of Sysco since 2020. There are 6 older and 23 younger executives at Sysco. The oldest executive at Sysco Corp. is Nelson Peltz, 78, who is the Independent Director.
Edward's mailing address filed with the SEC is 1390 ENCLAVE PARKWAY, , HOUSTON, TX, 77077.
Over the last 22 years, insiders at Sysco have traded over $2,766,058,161 worth of Sysco stock and bought 4,438,664 units worth $214,486,462 . The most active insiders traders include Nelsontrian Fund Management..., Joshua D.Trian Fund Managem... e William J Iii De Laney. On average, Sysco executives and independent directors trade stock every 15 days with the average trade being worth of $8,199,586. The most recent stock trade was executed by James Chris Jasper on 14 March 2024, trading 4,000 units of SYY stock currently worth $321,640.
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 57,000 associates, the company operates 326 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 625,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2020 that ended June 27, 2020, the company generated sales of more than $52 billion.
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