Full Name
Gail Tavill
Job Title
Chief Sustainability Officer
Company
OSI Group
Speaker Bio
Gail joined OSI Group in September 2022 as Global Chief Sustainability Officer. She brings with her thirty years of experience in the packaged foods industry and a proven track record as an industry sustainability champion. Key accomplishments in this role include completing a full climate inventory globally and setting climate targets that have been validated and approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). To work towards these targets, Gail has initiated several partnerships and customer collaborations to promote and progress sustainability interventions in the animal agriculture sector in the US, UK, Europe and Australia.
Gail formerly served as Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability at Conagra Brands where she also led teams in product, process and packaging development as well as nutrition, labeling and product lifecycle management. Gail started her career at Kraft Foods where she progressed through various packaging research and development roles during her 10 year tenure.
In 2019, Gail launched a sustainability consulting firm that collaborated with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Their joint mission was to prevent plastic leakage into the environment and our oceans. She concurrently served in advisory roles for several consumer packaged goods companies.
Throughout her career, Gail has been active with industry collaborations on topics of food waste, packaging, transparency and sustainability, co-chairing the Food Waste Reduction Alliance and helping to author the National Academy of Sciences’ 2020 report, “A Systems Approach to Reducing Consumer Food Waste.” Gail was a co-founder, past president and served nine years on the board of AMERIPEN, an organization that proactively influences packaging policy in the US.
Ms. Tavill earned her B.S. in packaging from Michigan State University where she has been inducted into the Packaging Alumni Association Hall of Fame. She also earned an M.S. in environmental management from the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Gail formerly served as Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability at Conagra Brands where she also led teams in product, process and packaging development as well as nutrition, labeling and product lifecycle management. Gail started her career at Kraft Foods where she progressed through various packaging research and development roles during her 10 year tenure.
In 2019, Gail launched a sustainability consulting firm that collaborated with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Their joint mission was to prevent plastic leakage into the environment and our oceans. She concurrently served in advisory roles for several consumer packaged goods companies.
Throughout her career, Gail has been active with industry collaborations on topics of food waste, packaging, transparency and sustainability, co-chairing the Food Waste Reduction Alliance and helping to author the National Academy of Sciences’ 2020 report, “A Systems Approach to Reducing Consumer Food Waste.” Gail was a co-founder, past president and served nine years on the board of AMERIPEN, an organization that proactively influences packaging policy in the US.
Ms. Tavill earned her B.S. in packaging from Michigan State University where she has been inducted into the Packaging Alumni Association Hall of Fame. She also earned an M.S. in environmental management from the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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