Company: UTZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-038342
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Company: Utz Brands, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: DEF 14A
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 package, and quality team as well as functional insights responsibility for the Foodservice and Grocery business units. Prior to Kraft, Ms. Bentz also held various positions with S.C. Johnson’s business units. She started her career at Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) (now Circana, Inc.), where she functioned as a client service professional, managing interactions with clients and providing marketing and sales consultation. Ms. Bentz holds a B.S. in Marketing from Indiana University, where she also minored in Sociology. |

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF UTZ BRANDS, INC.

| Ajay KatariaAge: 48 |     | Mr. Kataria serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Accounting Officer at Utz, having served in this role since October 2021. In this role, Mr. Kataria is responsible for all of the Company’s financial functions, including serving as the company’s principal accounting officer, and is responsible for the Information Technology function that he oversaw in his previous role. Prior to his service as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Kataria served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Accounting from July 2019 until October 2021. Mr. Kataria joined the Utz companies in July 2017 as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasury to support our financial planning, analytics and business transformation efforts, and became Executive Vice President in July 2019. Prior to joining the Utz companies, from April 2016 until July 2017, Mr. Kataria served as Vice President of Global Finance and Strategy at Armstrong Flooring, Inc., a producer of residential and commercial flooring products. Prior to his time at Armstrong, from August 2014 until April 2016, Mr. Kataria served as Vice President of Supply Chain Finance at Chobani, Inc., a producer of Greek yogurt and dairy products. Prior to Chobani, Mr. Kataria worked for ten years at PepsiCo, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEP), an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation, in various supply chain and finance roles of increasing responsibility. Mr. Kataria holds a Bachelor of Technology from the National Institute of Technology, India and earned his M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business. |

| Shannan RedcayAge: 44 |     | Ms. Redcay serves as Executive Vice President, Manufacturing at Utz having