Chobani adds two staffers, promotes another
By: IBR Staff
February 9, 2021
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Cristina Alesci
Chobani announced that veteran CNN and Bloomberg Television correspondent Cristina Alesci will serve as chief corporate affairs office. She will report to Chobani President & COO Peter McGuinness in her new role, leading external and internal communications, government and community relations, social impact and philanthropy. She will also join Chobani’s Executive Leadership team. Chobani created the CCAO role for her.
Alesci joins Chobani from CNN, where she was a business and political correspondent since 2014. Known for her in-depth coverage of financial markets and government policies, Alesci has appeared regularly on Anderson Cooper 360, The Lead with Jake Tapper, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett’s Out Front and Newsroom. She has delivered original reporting and analysis on breaking financial and economic news and trends, including U.S. public companies’ response to COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and White House economic, trade and social policies. She has interviewed many of the country’s leading politicians and business executives, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon, Starbucks Corporation founder and former CEO Howard Schultz, and Chobani’s founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya for a 2015 CNN story about the company’s policy of employing refugees.