ARYZTA AG announced the appointment of Dave Johnson as CEO North America, commencing 23 January 2018, and John Heffernan as Chief Strategy Officer, commencing 28 February 2018. Both executives will also join the Group Executive Committee. Dave Johnson is a native of Wisconsin, USA and brings to ARYZTA an extensive background in the food industry. Most recently he served for nine years at Barry Callebaut as President and CEO Americas retiring in August 2017. John Heffernan is a native of Dublin, Ireland and joins ARYZTA from daa plc; ARI; and daa International. John has served as Chief Development Officer of daa plc for the past four years.