NCP: Managing Directors - Ellen R. Marram

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Ellen R. Marram
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Ellen R. Marram has spent more than 30 years building profitable brands and companies. Prior to becoming an Operating Advisor, Ms. Marram was a Managing Director at North Castle. She served as Chairman of the Boards of North Castle's portfolio companies, Avalon Natural Products and DDF. She is currently a director of Red Door Spas.

Ms. Marram was President and Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana and the Tropicana Beverage Group from 1993 through 1998. During Ms. Marram's tenure, Tropicana nearly tripled its shareholder value and was sold to PepsiCo in 1998 for $3.3 billion. From 1988 to 1993, Ms. Marram was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nabisco Biscuit Company, the largest operating unit of Nabisco, Inc. Ms. Marram's vision and direction led to the 1992 launch of SnackWell's cookies and crackers, which pioneered low-fat snacking and is considered one of the most successful new products of the 1990s.

Ms. Marram was President of Nabisco's Grocery Division from 1987 to 1988, and from 1970 to 1986 she was in marketing management at Nabisco/Standard Brands, Johnson & Johnson and Lever Brothers. Ms. Marram serves as a director of Ford Motor Company, The New York Times Company and Eli Lilly and Company. She is a member of the Healthcare Executive Leadership Network, serves on a number of nonprofit Boards including The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, City Meals-on-Wheels, Lincoln Center Theater and The Families and Work Institute and has served as a Trustee of the Conference Board and as a member of the Board of Associates of Harvard Business School.

She is a graduate of Wellesley College and received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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