Leadership Team
Geoff E. Tanner has been President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2023. Mr. Tanner joined Simply Good Foods as President, Chief Operating Officer and CEO-elect as well as a member of the Board of Simply Good Foods on April 3, 2023. Mr. Tanner has more than 20 years of experience driving financial and marketplace results for leading food companies. From October 2019 through February 2023, Mr. Tanner served as Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer of The J.M. Smucker Company (“Smucker”). In this position, Mr. Tanner oversaw the more than $8 billion JMS Commercial organization, leading a successful transformation of the company’s marketing and sales organizations, helping Smucker deliver successive years of growth in organic sales, profits and market share. Prior to that, at Smucker Mr. Tanner was Senior Vice President, Growth and Innovation from 2016 to 2019 and General Manager, Pet Snacks Business Unit and Vice President, Marketing from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Tanner brings significant expertise in strategy and business development, operations, brand building, innovation, omnichannel strategy and revenue management to his role at Simply Good Foods. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Tanner had executive roles at Big Heart Pet Brands and Del Monte Foods (the predecessor of Big Heart Pet Brands). Earlier in his career, Mr. Tanner was a senior strategy consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
Timothy Kraft joined The Simply Good Foods Company as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in June of 2018. Prior to joining the Company, Tim served as General Counsel of the Green Chef Corporation, a high-growth, USDA-certified organic meal kit company offering premium dinners tailored for those following specialized diets including vegan, gluten-free and paleo. Prior to Green Chef, Tim served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Boulder Brands, Inc., a publicly-traded company with a portfolio of health-focused food brands. Boulder Brands was acquired by Pinnacle Foods in January of 2016 and Tim remained with the company to lead the integration through the end of 2016. Prior to joining Boulder Brands in 2009, Tim was in private practice focusing on general corporate law and mergers and acquisitions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tim received a Juris Doctor degree from Marquette University Law School and a B.A. degree from Truman State University.
Jill Short was promoted to Chief Customer Officer in August 2017. Previously, Ms. Short served as Senior Vice President of Sales. Ms. Short joined Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. in January 2008, and was part of the sales team that contributed to the turnaround and success of the Atkins® brand. Prior to joining Atkins, Ms. Short served in key sales leadership roles for more than 20 years with increasing responsibility at Muscle Milk, Abbott Nutrition including the EAS brand, and Kraft Foods.