Outside Event: Mitch Daniels School of Business Executive Forum

The Executive Forum is open to the public, as seating permits, and provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management.

Melissa Napier, CPA, has over 30 years of global corporate finance experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Foodservice sectors, where she has operated as a highly-driven and results-oriented leader across various public and private corporate platforms.

Melissa is currently the CFO of the Grocery & Snacks Segment for Conagra Brands, one of North America’s leading branded food companies, and she previously served as Conagra’s SVP Investor Relations.

Prior to Conagra, Melissa held various positions of increasing responsibility at Sara Lee as SVP Audit and Compliance, Hillshire Brands as SVP Investor Relations and Corporate Controller & Treasurer, Tyson Foods as SVP Finance, and US Foods as SVP Treasurer and Investor Relations. She began her post-graduate career as a senior consultant at Deloitte.

Melissa’s diversity of experience is grounded in the effective communication of financial results, especially while navigating through corporate change, including shareholder activism, tariffs and pricing, capital structures, and corporate spin-offs or IPOs. In the area of corporate culture, Melissa has a passion for talent development, governance best practice implementation, and continuous process improvement.

Melissa earned a Bachelor in Accounting from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. Outside of work, she is active in her community and has served on several boards and advisory committees. She enjoys reading, traveling, and taking long walks with her Bernedoodle, Lily.

Melissa resides in the Western Suburbs of Chicago with her husband, Mark – a Purdue Krannert alum, and their two children, William – a Senior in Purdue’s Daniels School of Business, and James – a Freshman in IU’s Kelly School of Business.

LOCATION:  Krannert 140