Kevin Toland serves as the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) and President of Glanbia. Kevin was born in Navan Co. Meath in 1965, He attended St. Patrick’s Classical School Navan where he Graduated and completed his leaving certificate examinations in 1982, before continuing his education in The College of Commerce Rahtmines Co. Dublin. Kevin then completed a diploma in applied finance at The Irish Management Institute (I.M.I) in 1989.
In September 1991 Kevin was employed at R and A Bailey distilleries as a financial controller where he worked for three years until March 1995. In April 1995 Kevin moved on to work for IDV Central Europe witch was a data visualisation software company, He worked at IDV as a Business Services Director for two years and two months, until he was head hunted by Coca Cola Molino. Coca Cola Molino is a subsidiary company to Coca Cola bottling company, Kevin was made Deputy Country General Manager of the Russian based subsidiary bottle company for Coca Cola where he worked for one year and eight months until December 1998.
In January 1999 Kevin was appointed as the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Glanbia, He spent two years marketing and promoting the Glanbia image and products internationally in countries such as USA, Germany and China. This has led to the development of processing and manufacturing in USA, Germany and China where the sales of Glanbia products has increased.
Kevin was promoted to CEO of consumer foods division at Glanbia in March 2001. During his three years as CEO of the Consumer Foods Division Kevin managed the Irish, UK and European foods division including branded dairy and fresh dairy products in Ireland, cheese, pork and sliced cooked meats in the UK and mozzarella cheese in Europe. Kevin oversaw over three thousand employees and had raised an estimated one billion euro during his three years as CEO of the Consumer Foods Division.
Kevin’s hard work and reputation did not go un-noticed at