Performance Food Group Company announced it has appointed Danielle M. Brown to serve as an independent director on its Board of Directors, effective June 28, 2024. This appointment expands PFG?s Board to 12 directors. The Board appointed Ms. Brown to serve as a member of the Company?s Audit and Finance Committee and Technology and Cybersecurity Committee.

Ms. Brown, 53, currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Whirlpool Corporation?s Global Information Technology function. Ms. Brown has been in information technology (IT) leadership for more than 20 years, including serving as CIO at Brunswick Corporation for four years prior to joining Whirlpool Corp. Previously, Ms. Brown spent 16 years at DuPont, where she held a series of IT roles of increasing responsibility, including Asia Pacific Applications Delivery; Global Chief Information Officer for Crop Protection, oversight of a $3.2-billion DuPont Strategic Business Unit; and IT Transformational Productivity Leader.

Ms. Brown currently serves as a member of the board of PRA Group, and Corewell Health, a non-profit healthcare system. Additionally, she is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, a not-for-profit that opens the channels of opportunity for the development of Black executives to positively impact business and communities. Ms. Brown holds a BS in computer science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master?s degree in management information systems from Penn State University and an MBA from Drexel University.

She is also a Six Sigma Black Belt.