Jennifer Jorgensen

Ms. Jorgensen is a Strategic Advisor for Proterra

Ms. Jorgensen is the Chief Executive Officer of Back to Nature Foods. She has spent a career driving differential growth for businesses and profitably reinvigorating brands through unique insights and disruptive innovation. Ms. Jorgensen brings deep experience as a brand-builder and general manager, growing global brands, scaling emerging brands, and leading competitive $1 billion + businesses both in the U.S. and Internationally.

Following a nearly three-decade career in Brand Management at General Mills, Ms. Jorgensen took the helm at Back to Nature in 2022 when it was acquired by Barilla. Back to Nature is an independently operated subsidiary of Barilla, the $5 billion family-owned Italian company based in Italy and Amsterdam. Early in her career, she spent three years at Deloitte.

Ms. Jorgensen received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College.

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