Heineken appoints new Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Stacey Tank, Heineken’s Chief Transformation and Corporate Affairs Officer, has decided to leave the company to re-join her family who moved to the United States a year ago due to the illness of one of her children.

Tank (pictured left) first joined Heineken in 2012, where she ran the Corporate Relations function at Heineken USA until 2015, followed by a move to The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, as Chief Communications Officer and President of The Home Depot Foundation. In 2020 she returned to Heineken in her current role and moved to the Netherlands.

Her last day in the business will be 4 August 2023.

Tank will be replaced by Joanna Price (pictured right) as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer from 1 July 2023. Price will join Heineken’s Executive Team, reporting to Dolf van den Brink, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board. Her role as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer encompasses the areas of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Sustainable Development and Global Communications.

Price comes with more than 20 years of global experience working with companies to improve their reputation and drive growth.

She joins Heineken from The Coca-Cola Company where she was the North American Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability, based in Atlanta, Georgia. An Australian citizen, Joanna started her career in marketing in News Corp Australia followed by AC Nielsen. She joined Kellogg’s in 1998 and was promoted to Director of Nutrition and Consumer Insight.

Joanna’s 20-year career in Corporate Affairs with Coca-Cola began in 2003 in Australia, where she was quickly moved into more senior roles, before being promoted to Group Director, Asia Pacific Public Affairs and Communications in 2011, based in Shanghai. Three years later she moved to the headquarters in the USA, where she became Global VP Communications. During her time at Coca-Cola, she is credited with playing a pivotal role driving change and transformation across some of their most important strategic pillars, including the total beverage/reduced sugar strategy and World Without Waste.

At this time, Heineken will also split the Corporate Affairs Function and the Transformation Network. Jasper Hamaker, Senior Director Global Transformation, will now report directly to Dolf van den Brink.