Chobani

JODY MACEDONIO has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) at Chobani. She will report to Chobani President & COO Peter McGuinness. To help support the company’s growth, Chobani’s interim CFO Michelle Brooks will continue her role as treasurer and take on the newly created role of chief business development officer. Brooks remains on the executive leadership team, reporting to Macedonio, who has more than 20 years of global experience as a finance executive in the consumer goods industry. Most recently, she served as the CFO of 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a company affiliated with Post Holdings. Before that, she was CFO of Dean Foods.

CRISTINA ALESCI has been named chief corporate affairs officer (CCAO) at Chobani. She will report to McGuinness in her new role, leading external and internal communications, government and community relations, social impact, and philanthropy. Alesci will also join Chobani’s executive leadership team. She brings more than a decade of experience as a reporter and TV correspondent at CNN and Bloomberg TV. Chobani created the CCAO role for Alesci. She most recently worked at CNN as a business and political correspondent since 2014. 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. Prior to her work at CNN, Alesci worked as a print and on-air reporter for five years at Bloomberg Television, covering the aftermath of the financial crisis and breaking news on some of the biggest business and private-equity deals that followed. She received a master’s degree in journalism from the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Pace University, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in business from Columbia University.