On the Street -- Diamond Names SVP of Communications
August 26/Food & Farm Week -- Diamond Foods Inc. announced that Linda Segre has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice president of corporate strategy and communications.
Segre brings more than 20 years of senior executive and management consulting experience to Diamond Foods. She most recently served as a managing director at Google.org, the corporate philanthropy organization of Google Inc., where she oversaw the climate change and global development initiatives and managed all operational aspects of the organization. Prior to that, she was a vice president, officer and director at The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, where she focused on clients in the consumer goods and financial services sectors, and she served as the managing director of the San Francisco office from February 2001 until September 2005.