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Keith Weed, leader of the world’s second largest marketer, is retiring. After 35 years with Unilever, Weed will depart in May of 2019.
The news follows a leadership shakeup in late November at Unilever with Paul Polman retiring after 10 years as CEO.
As with Polman, Weed spent much of his time at Unilever developing the company’s Sustainable Living Plan—an effort to reduce Unilever’s global footprint. “We have been able to leverage our scale for effectiveness and efficiencies, and we have also been able to leverage our scale for good, leading for greater responsibility, transparency and accountability in the advertising and digital industry,” Weed said in a statement.
In the CMO role, Weed also focused on making Unilever a digitally minded company while remaining very outspoken about some of the hurdles along the way.
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