Institutional Investor has learned.
Joel Wittenberg has been the $7.8 billion foundation’s chief investment officer and vice president since 2009, a spokesperson for the foundation said via email.
The Battle Creek, Michigan-based foundation launched its search for a new CIO publicly early in December, a job listing shows. Engy Lamour and Allen Geller at Raines International are running the search process, the listing shows.
Wittenberg began working at the Kellogg Company in 2000, spending nine years as the cereal purveyor’s vice president and treasurer before joining the foundation, his LinkedIn profile shows.
Before joining Kellogg, Wittenberg worked as the vice president and treasurer for Pennsylvania-based manufacturing company Armstrong World Industries for three years. He previously served as the director of treasury and investments at Dow Chemical and was a fixed income portfolio manager at Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Co. before that, his LinkedIn