Hy-Vee Announces Several Leadership Changes

Iowa-based grocery chain Hy-Vee has announced several leadership changes to close out 2022.

At Hy-Vee, Inc.’s annual stockholders meeting, Hy-Vee CEO Jeremy Gosch was named vice chairman of Hy-Vee’s board of directors. Hy-Vee Executive Chairman of the Board and Executive Director Randy Edeker announced Gosch’s promotion along with several other leadership changes at the meeting.

Longtime Hy-Vee executive and 2022 Top Women in Store Brands honoree Donna Tweeten was named president of Hy-Vee, Inc., and will oversee Hy-Vee’s private brands, merchandising, marketing and digital initiatives. She will also oversee the operations of the company's new retail media network Red Media.

Hy-Vee executive Aaron Wiese was also named president of Hy-Vee, Inc., and will now be responsible for the operations of all Hy-Vee’s healthcare and retail pharmacy locations, as well as Hy-Vee’s newest subsidiary Hy-Vee Healthcare, LLC. Wiese will also oversee new technology initiatives for the company and continue his leadership of overseeing several Hy-Vee subsidiaries, along with the grocer's supply chain and distribution operations across the company’s region.

Also announced at the annual meeting, Hy-Vee executive Kevin Sherlock will serve as chief operating officer, leading Hy-Vee’s retail grocery operations. In June 2022, Sherlock was named executive vice president and chief merchandising officer, before officially being named chief operating officer earlier this year.

 Georgia Van Gundy was promoted to chief of staff, in addition to executive vice president and chief customer officer. Van Gundy was promoted to executive vice president, chief customer/talent officer in September 2020, and shortly after named executive vice president, chief administrative officer, chief customer officer. 

Hy-Vee is an employee-owned corporation and operates more than 285 retail stores across eight Midwestern states.