Nneka Rimmer is Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development, at McCormick and Co., a $4B publicly traded global consumer goods company. Rimmer is one of the nine named executive officers of the company, and reports directly to the CEO.
In this role, Rimmer is responsible for shaping overall corporate strategies to achieve McCormick’s strategic and financial objectives. She also examines the current portfolio of business, formulates growth strategies and works to increase EVA (Economic Value Added). Rimmer is the company’s senior mergers and acquisition leader, providing strategic direction for all M&A
and shaping the corporate-wide portfolio strategy. In addition, she globally coordinates McCormick’s internal and external research activities, consumer
insight, demographic studies, competitive and market intelligence.
Previously, Rimmer was a Partner and Managing Director with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a premier strategy consulting firm. In 2008, Rimmer was elected as the first African-American female partner in the 50-year history of The Boston Consulting Group.
Rimmer has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern.
