Author: Daniel snow

Leadership changes at global companies are rarely about personalities alone. More often, they reflect deep disagreements over strategy, risk, and the direction of capital. That dynamic appears to be at the heart of the recent departure of Barry Callebaut’s former chief executive, Peter Feld. According to sources cited by Reuters, Feld left the world’s largest chocolate maker after a high-level disagreement with the board over whether to separate the company’s cocoa business—a move that would have fundamentally reshaped Barry Callebaut’s operating model. A Strategic Clash at the Top At issue was a proposal to spin off or partially divest the…

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