
Thomas J. Harrington
Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer
Thomas J. Harrington was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer effective as of the beginning of 2019. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Harrington served as the Chief Executive Officer of our North America business unit since our acquisition of DS Services in December 2014 and was appointed President Route Based Services in July 2016. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Harrington served in various roles with DS Services from 2004 to 2014, including Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, West Division President, and Senior Vice President, Central Division. Prior to joining DS Services, Mr. Harrington served in various roles with Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. including Vice President and General Manager of Coca-Cola Enterprises New York and Chicago divisions. He also served in various sales and marketing roles with Pepperidge Farm from 1979 to 1985. Mr. Harrington previously served as a member of the board of directors of the National Automatic Merchandising Association, the International Bottled Water Association and the Water Quality Association.

Jay Wells
Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer
Jay Wells was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2012. Prior to joining Primo, Mr. Wells held various senior finance positions with Molson Coors from 2005 to 2012, including Chief Financial Officer of Molson Coors Canada, a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Company, and Global Vice President, Treasury, Tax, and Strategic Finance of Molson Coors Brewing Company. From 1990 to 2005, Mr. Wells held several positions within Deloitte and Touche LLP, including partner.

Cate Gutowski
Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer
Cate Gutowski was appointed as our Chief Operating Officer effective October 27, 2021. Prior to joining Primo, since March 2019, Ms. Gutowski held roles of progressive responsibility at Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), a provider of on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments. Most recently, she was the Worldwide Head of Enablement, Training, & Communications, where she led the field activation of the company growth strategy through the delivery of enablement designed to increase the state of readiness of the AWS sales and technical teams for customer conversations. As AWS product innovation scaled rapidly, Ms. Gutowski also scaled field readiness through the implementation of self-service models, and AI & Machine Learning based technology systems. Prior to Amazon, Ms. Gutowski worked in the aviation industry as the Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Service at Panasonic Avionics, where she led the commercialization of breakthrough entertainment solutions, building the business of airline customers, partners, and developers. Prior to this, Ms. Gutowski began her career at the General Electric Company, a multinational conglomerate, as a trainee in GE’s Technical Leadership Program. Over 20 years, she held numerous operational and commercial roles both domestically and internationally, including Vice President of Product Management – Digital Transformation, VP of Product Management for EMEA, and the General Manager of Commercial Operations for EMEA.

Steven Kitching
EVP Business Development for Europe

EVP Business Development for Europe
Steven Kitching was appointed EVP Business Development for Europe in January 2022. Prior to this appointment, from 2020 to 2021, Mr. Kitching served as the Company’s President, International. From 2008 to 2019, Mr. Kitching served in various roles with Primo, including Executive Chair for Route Based Services, Executive Chairman of Aimia Foods/Decantae Mineral Water, President of Primo’s North America Business Unit and President of Primo’s United Kingdom/Europe Business Unit. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Kitching held several positions with InBev UK, including Managing Director-On Trade Sales and Managing Director-Commercial and Field Operations. Prior to that, Mr. Kitching held several positions with Interbrew and Whitbread Beer Company from 1986 to 2005, including General Manager Netherlands of Interbrew from 2004 to 2005.

Marni Morgan Poe
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Marni Morgan Poe has served as the Company’s Chief Legal Officer and Secretary since 2010. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Poe served as the Company’s Corporate Counsel from 2008 to 2010. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Poe was a partner at the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP from 2000 to 2006 and an associate of the law firm from 1995 to 2000.

Jason Ausher
Chief Accounting Officer

Chief Accounting Officer
Jason Ausher was appointed Chief Accounting Officer in May 2015. Prior to his appointment, from 2011 to 2015, Mr. Ausher served as the Company’s VP Treasurer, Corporate Development. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Ausher served as the Company’s Corporate Controller and from 2008 to 2010 he held the position of Controller for the Company’s U.S. Business Unit. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Ausher held numerous positions with Walter Industries, Inc. and Mueller Water Products Inc. (a water infrastructure business and spin-off of Walter Industries, Inc.), including the position of Vice President of Finance. Prior to this, from 1996 to 2002, Mr. Ausher was with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.

David Hass
Chief Strategy Officer

Chief Strategy Officer
David Hass was appointed Chief Strategy Officer in March 2020. Since 2017, Mr. Hass served in the same role for legacy Primo prior to its acquisition by Primo Water Corporation in March 2020. From 2011 to 2017, Mr. Hass served in various roles with legacy Primo including Vice President of Strategy, Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), GM of the Canadian Business Unit and GM of Primo’s Water Direct Business Unit. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Hass served as Vice President of Consumer Investment Banking at Stifel (formerly Thomas Weisel Partners). Prior to that, Mr. Hass served as an Associate in the Client Financial Management practice at Accenture.

Mercedes Romero
Chief Procurement Officer

Chief Procurement Officer
Mercedes Romero was appointed Chief Procurement Officer in August 2020. Prior to joining Primo, Ms. Romero served as Vice President Sourcing and Supply Management from 2019 to 2020 for Ryder System Inc., overseeing global spend and supply planning teams. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Romero served as Chief Procurement Officer/VP Procurement Americas with the Campari Group. From 1995 to 2017, Ms. Romero held various senior roles leading procurement and supply chain transformations for TEVA Pharma, Diageo, Starbucks, Clorox and Procter & Gamble. Ms. Romero currently serves on the board of the Conference Leadership Committee and the Talent Executive Committee at the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Ms. Romero also serves as an advisory board member at the Global Women Procurement Professionals (GWPP).

William “Jamie” Jamieson
Global Chief Information Officer

Global Chief Information Officer
William “Jamie” Jamieson was appointed Global Chief Information Officer in April 2019. Prior to joining Primo, Mr. Jamieson served as senior vice president and chief information officer for GNC from 2015 to 2019, overseeing enterprise technology teams and platforms. From 2000 to 2015, he held various senior roles leading IT service delivery for Charming Charlie and Chico’s FAS, Inc., both fashion retailers.

Anne Melaragni
Chief Human Resources Officer

Chief Human Resources Officer
Anne Melaragni was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer in May 2021. Ms. Melaragni joined Primo in September 2020 as Senior Vice President – Human Resources, North America. Prior to Primo, she served as Chief People Officer for CARE, a global non-profit based in Atlanta, where she oversaw HR strategy and execution, the associate experience and global total rewards. Previously, Ms. Melaragni was responsible for driving HR strategy and organizational transformation as the Head of Human Resources at Norfolk Southern. Over the previous 16 years, from 2003 to 2019, Ms. Melaragni held various positions with United Parcel Service (UPS), including Global Head of Total Rewards, Vice President – HR, Organizational Transformation and Vice President – HR, International & Emerging Markets. Prior to UPS, Ms. Melaragni led the HR team at Sitestuff.com, a real estate procurement start-up in Austin, TX.

Shayron Barnes-Selby
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Shayron Barnes-Selby was appointed Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer in June 2021. Previously, she was appointed Vice President of Government Affairs and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Programs in February 2019. Prior to that appointment, Ms. Barnes-Selby served in various leadership roles at DS Services, including Vice President, Government Affairs and Quality Services from May 2014 to February 2019. Ms. Barnes-Selby has represented and promoted the interest of DS Services with regulators and legislators at the state and federal levels and ensured that DS Services met or exceeded all applicable bottled water regulations. Ms. Barnes-Selby has dedicated over 30 years of service to the bottled water industry starting in 1987 when she served as the Quality Assurance Manager at Alamance Foods/Triton Water Company in Burlington, North Carolina. Ms. Barnes-Selby has for many years been an active advocate on behalf of the bottled water industry. She has been a fixture at International Bottled Water Association Capitol Hill events, meeting with elected officials to educate them about bottled water industry issues. In addition to her federal work, Ms. Barnes-Selby addresses industry issues at the state and local level. In 2006, Ms. Barnes-Selby was awarded the IBWA Directors’ Award for her advocacy efforts and commitment to the bottled water industry and IBWA. In 2014, Ms. Barnes-Selby was the first recipient of a new advocacy award created by the association to recognize an IBWA member or non-member whose advocacy efforts have had a positive impact on the national and global conversation about the larger public policy issues important to the bottled water industry. During the 2014 IBWA awards ceremony, this award was officially renamed the IBWA/Selby Advocacy Award (affectionately referred to as “The Selby”). In 2016, Ms. Barnes-Selby was elected by the membership to serve as IBWA chairwoman. She was the second woman to hold this position in the trade association’s 60-year history. Shayron is currently a member of the IBWA Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She has also served on various IBWA committees, most notably the Government Relations Committee, of which she was the co-chair for many years, and the IBWA Political Action Committee Board. Shayron has also served as co-chair of IBWA’s technical and education committees. She has given freely of her time to IBWA, often participating as an instructor for IBWA’s popular Certified Plant Operator educational study session, which is held every year during the IBWA Business Conference and Trade Show. Ms. Barnes-Selby was inducted into the IBWA Hall of Fame during the IBWA annual business conference and trade show on November 14, 2018. Ms. Barnes-Selby holds a B. A. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G); and a Masters of Education (M. Ed) in Public Health from UNC-G.

Thomas J. Harrington
Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer
Thomas J. Harrington, of Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer effective as of the beginning of 2019. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Harrington served as the Chief Executive Officer of our North America business unit since our acquisition of DS Services in December 2014 and was appointed President Route Based Services in July 2016. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Harrington served in various roles with DS Services from 2004 to 2014, including Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, West Division President, and Senior Vice President, Central Division. Prior to joining DS Services, Mr. Harrington served in various roles with Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. including Vice President and General Manager of Coca-Cola Enterprises New York and Chicago divisions. He also served in various sales and marketing roles with Pepperidge Farm from 1979 to 1985. Mr. Harrington previously served as a member of the board of directors of the National Automatic Merchandising Association, the International Bottled Water Association and the Water Quality Association. He has served on our Board since the beginning of 2019.

Jerry Fowden
Chairman of the Board

Chairman of the Board
Jerry Fowden, of St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A., was our Chief Executive Officer from 2009 until the end of 2018, at which point he became our Executive Chairman. Beginning in the second quarter of 2020, he transitioned to the role of Chairman. Prior to his service as our Chief Executive Officer, he served as President of our international operating segment, Interim President North America and Interim President of our UK and European business from 2007 to 2009. Prior to joining Primo, Mr. Fowden served as Chief Executive Officer of Trader Media Group (now known as Autotrader plc) and was a member of the Guardian Media Group plc’s board of directors from 2005 to 2007. Prior to this time, Mr. Fowden served in a variety of roles at multiple companies, including global Chief Operating Officer of ABInBev S.A. Belgium, an alcoholic beverage company, Chief Executive Officer of Bass Brewers Ltd., a subsidiary of AB InBev S.A. Belgium, Managing Director of the Rank Group plc’s Hospitality and Holiday Division and member of the Rank Group plc’s board of directors, Chief Executive Officer of Hero AG’s European beverage operations and various roles within PepsiCo Inc.’s beverage operations and Mars, Incorporated’s pet food operations. Mr. Fowden currently serves on the board of directors of Constellation Brands Inc., a premium alcoholic beverage company, and is a member of its Corporate Governance Committee and Chair of its Human Resources Committee. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Fowden served on the board of directors of British American Tobacco p.l.c., a leading consumer goods company, and was a member of its Audit Committee and its Nominations Committee. Mr. Fowden previously served as a member of the board of directors of the American Beverage Association and the British Soft Drinks Association. He has served on our Board since 2009.

Britta Bomhard
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Britta Bomhard, of Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., is the co-founder of Encourage-Ventures, a startup investment network and a Distinguished Careers Institute fellow at Stanford University. From 2016 to 2021, she was the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Church & Dwight Co., Inc., an S&P 500 company and maker of Arm & Hammer baking soda and other branded household, personal care and specialty products. She previously held the role of President of Europe at Church & Dwight from 2013 to 2016. From 2005 to 2013, Ms. Bomhard held the general manager role for Energizer Holdings, Inc. in Spain & Portugal and Nordics & Austria as well as a variety of marketing roles. Prior to Energizer, Ms. Bomhard worked for Wella AG and GlaxoSmithKline in their marketing organizations. Ms. Bomhard has served on our Board since November 2018.

Susan E. Cates
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Susan E. Cates, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Leeds Illuminate, a growth equity fund investing in the Education and Workforce Development sectors. She serves on the Board of Advisors at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she co-chaired the Nominations and Governance Committee from 2016 through 2020. Ms. Cates served on the board of the legacy Primo business for six years prior to our acquisition of such business. She served on the audit committee of that board and was appointed lead independent director in January 2019. Ms. Cates served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of College and University Educators from 2019 to 2021, and as Chief Operating Officer of 2U, Inc., a leading provider of digital education services to universities around the world, from 2016 to 2017. Prior to joining 2U, Ms. Cates served as the President of Executive Development at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School from 2008 to 2016, and as the founding Executive Director of MBA@UNC from 2010 to 2016. Prior to joining UNC, Ms. Cates was a partner with Best Associates, a Dallas-based private equity firm, where she led the identification, acquisition and oversight of multiple domestic and international companies operating in the education sector, including leading M&A efforts for Best Associates’ largest portfolio company and closing a series of acquisitions and partnerships in South America. Prior to joining Best Associates, she was part of the founding team of ThinkEquity Partners, a boutique investment bank in New York, with former colleagues from Merrill Lynch & Co. At ThinkEquity, Ms. Cates headed the education investment banking practice with responsibility for business development, client relationships and deal execution. Prior to ThinkEquity, she worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York, as well as in corporate lending at Wachovia Bank in Atlanta. She has served on our Board since May 2020.

Stephen H. Halperin
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Stephen H. Halperin, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is of counsel at the law firm of Goodmans LLP. He was a partner with Goodmans from 1987 until his retirement from the partnership at the end of 2017. He is a member of the Board of Governors of McGill University and the incoming chair of the nominating, governance and ethics committee and member of the executive committee of that board, and is on the board of directors of Our Family Office Ltd, a private company registered as an investment advisor under Canadian law. Mr. Halperin previously served on the board of trustees of KCP Income Fund, a TSX-listed custom manufacturer of national brand and retailer brand consumer products, and on the board of directors of Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc., a TSX-listed wealth management company. He has also served on the boards of five other publicly listed issuers. He has served on our Board since 1992.

Gregory Monahan
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Gregory Monahan, of Darien, Connecticut, U.S.A., has been a Senior Managing Director of Crescendo Partners, L.P., a New York-based investment firm, since December 2014. Prior to December 2014, he served as Managing Director of Crescendo Partners and has held various positions at Crescendo Partners since May 2005. He is also a Managing Member and Portfolio Manager for Jamarant Capital, LP, a private investment firm. Since November 2021, he has also been the CEO of Legato Merger Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company. Previously, he was co-founder of Bind Network Solutions, a consulting firm focused on network infrastructure and security. Mr. Monahan is currently on the board of directors of Absolute Software Corp., a leader in firmware-embedded endpoint security and management for computers and ultra-portable devices. He previously served on the board of directors of BSM Technologies Inc., a global commercial fleet telematics provider, COM DEV International Ltd., a supplier of space equipment and services, SAExploration Holdings Inc., a seismic data services company, ENTREC Corporation, a heavy haul and crane services provider, Bridgewater Systems, a telecommunications software provider, and O’Charley’s Inc., a multi-concept restaurant company. Mr. Monahan has served on our Board since June 2008.

Billy D. Prim
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Billy D. Prim, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.A., founded the legacy Primo business in 2004 and served on that board since inception and served as Executive Chairman from June 2017 until the closing of our acquisition of the legacy Primo business in March 2020. Prior to founding legacy Primo, Mr. Prim founded Blue Rhino Corporation, a provider of propane cylinder exchange and complementary propane and non-propane products, in March 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board. Mr. Prim led Blue Rhino’s initial public offering in May 1998 and remained its Chief Executive Officer until April 2004, when Blue Rhino was acquired by Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. at which time he was elected to the board of directors of Ferrellgas on which he served until November 2008. Mr. Prim previously served on the board of directors of Southern Community Bank and Trust from 1996 through 2005, its previous parent company, Southern Community Financial Corporation, and Towne Park Ltd. Mr. Prim also serves on the Wake Forest School of Business Board of Visitors and the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Advisory Board. He has served on our Board since May 2020.

Eric Rosenfeld
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Eric Rosenfeld, of New York, New York, U.S.A., has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Crescendo Partners, L.P., a New York-based investment firm, since its formation in November 1998. Prior to forming Crescendo Partners, he held the position of Managing Director at CIBC Oppenheimer and its predecessor company Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. for 14 years. Mr. Rosenfeld currently serves as Chairman Emeritus for CPI Aerostructures Inc., a company engaged in the contract production of structural aircraft parts. He is also on the board at Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd., a logistics and shipping company, Aecon Group Inc., a construction company, and Algoma Steel Group Inc., a fully integrated steel producer that merged with Legato Merger Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, for which he served as Chief SPAC Officer. Mr. Rosenfeld has been the Chief SPAC Officer at Legato Merger Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company, since December 2021. In addition, Mr. Rosenfeld is the CEO of Allegro Merger Corp., a shell company. Mr. Rosenfeld has also served as Chairman and CEO for Arpeggio Acquisition Corporation, Rhapsody Acquisition Corporation, Trio Merger Corp., Quartet Merger Corp. and Harmony Merger Corp., all blank check corporations that later merged with Hill International, Primoris Services Corporation, SAExploration Holdings Inc., Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. and NextDecade Corporation, respectively. He was also a director of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc., a full-service financial services company, NextDecade Corporation, a development stage company building natural gas liquefaction plants, Absolute Software Corp., a leader in firmware-embedded endpoint security and management for computers and ultraportable devices, AD OPT Technologies Inc., an airline crew planning service, Sierra Systems Group Inc., an information technology, management consulting and systems integration firm, Emergis Inc., an electronic commerce company, Hill International, a construction management firm, Matrikon Inc., a company that provides industrial intelligence solutions, DALSA Corp., a digital imaging and semiconductor firm, HIP Interactive, a video game company, GEAC Computer Corporation, a software company, Computer Horizons Corp. (Chairman), an IT services company, Pivotal Corp, a cloud software firm, Call-Net Enterprises, a telecommunication firm, Primoris Services Corporation, a specialty construction company, and SAExploration Holdings Inc., a seismic exploration company. Mr. Rosenfeld is a regular guest lecturer at Columbia Business School and has served on numerous panels at Queen’s University Business Law School Symposia, McGill Law School, the World Presidents’ Organization and the Value Investing Congress. He is a senior faculty member at the Director’s College. He has also been a regular guest host on CNBC. Mr. Rosenfeld has served on our Board since June 2008 and is our Lead Independent Director.

Archana Singh
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Archana Singh, of Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S.A, is the Chief People Officer of Expedia Group, Inc, an online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel. She has held this position since 2019. From 2016 to 2019, she held the position of Chief Human Resource Officer at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global publishing company. Prior to Wiley, from 2014 to 2016, she was Chief Human Resource Officer, Managing Director, at the consultancy Hay Group, Inc. She also held executive-level HR positions at Computer Science Corporation, AMD Corporation, Unisys Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Credit Suisse First Boston. Ms. Singh has served on our Board since August 2021.

Steven P. Stanbrook
Board of Directors

Board of Directors
Steven P. Stanbrook, of Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A., is a corporate director, currently serving on the board of directors for Group 1 Automotive, Inc., an international automotive retailer listed on the NYSE. Additionally, he is an Executive Advisory Partner at Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, where he serves on the Board of Directors of one of their portfolio companies, Voyant Beauty LLC, a contract manufacturer of personal and beauty care products. Mr. Stanbrook previously served on the board of directors of Imperial Brands PLC, a multinational company listed on the London Stock Exchange, The Vollrath Company, LLC, a privately owned commercial and institutional foodservice equipment supplier, as well as Hewitt Associates, Inc., a provider of human capital and management consulting services, and Chiquita Brands International, Inc., a producer and distributor of fresh fruit and produce, fruit ingredients and other processed foods, both listed on the NYSE. From 1996 to 2015, Mr. Stanbrook served in various roles at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., a global manufacturer of consumer products, including Chief Operating Officer, International Markets. Prior to S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., he served as Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee Bakery. Mr. Stanbrook has served on our Board since November 2018.