Celebrating the Class of 2024
This year's Convocation will be a momentous occasion to celebrate the achievements of the graduating class of 2024 for the Full-Time MBA, MBAi, Evening & Weekend MBA, MiM, MMM, JDMBA, MDMBA, and Doctoral Programs. Check back for updates and important information for our Kellogg Convocation in June!
Keynote speaker
Steve Cahillane ’87
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kellanova
Steve Cahillane joined Kellanova, previously Kellogg Company, in October 2017 as president and chief executive officer. He became chairman of the board in March 2018.
Prior to Kellanova, in 2014, Cahillane assumed the role of president and chief executive officer at The Nature’s Bounty Co., the largest global pure-play manufacturer, marketer and specialty retailer of health and wellness products.
Prior to Nature’s Bounty, Cahillane spent seven years with The Coca-Cola Company, most recently as president of Coca-Cola Americas, the global beverage maker’s largest business with $25 billion in sales. Prior to Coca-Cola, Cahillane spent eight years with AB lnBev, the world’s largest brewing company, in various senior leadership roles, including chief commercial officer, in which he led commercial strategy, global marketing, sponsorships, innovation and research following the 2004 merger of lnterbrew and AmBev.
Cahillane serves on the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, The Consumer Goods Forum Board of Directors, the Smithsonian National Board, the Colgate-Palmolive Board of Directors and as cotrustee of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust.
Cahillane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard University.