A member of Monmouth College’s Board of Trustees with an extensive career as an executive in the food industry will deliver the college’s Ninth Annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture.
Robin Ottenad Galloway, a 1990 graduate of Monmouth, will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. Free and open to the public, her talk is titled “Consumer Food Trends, Food Labeling and the Supply Chain.”
Galloway’s career began in Chicago at Amoco Oil Company (now BP) in the accounting department. Looking for career progression, she joined Dean Foods, where she continued to rise professionally, advancing quickly through the accounting and finance teams. That rise culminated in a vice president role for the Morningstar Foods division based in Dallas.
Galloway then held chief financial officer roles at Restaurants Unlimited in Seattle and Wells Enterprises – the manufacturer of Blue Bunny ice cream – in Le Mars, Iowa, before joining another company known for its ice cream, the Minnesota-based Schwan Food Company.
Galloway was then recruited to Dairy Farmers of America after it purchased Dean Foods’ assets. She became president of DFA’s Ice Cream Division, leading 3,500 team members across eight locations, manufacturing and distributing multiple brands of ice cream.
She currently serves as the chief executive officer at Dr. G’s Ingredients, a food seasoning manufacturer based in Georgia.
While a student at Monmouth, Galloway joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She recently spoke about her time on campus.
“I wasn’t placed on a single track or in a box where all I learned how to do was accounting,” she said. “Instead, I received a broad education that gave me the ability to explore different areas, ask questions and work with different kinds of people.”
In addition to her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Monmouth, Galloway holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management.
The Wiswell-Robeson Lecture was founded in 2016 through a gift from 1960 Monmouth graduate Jeanne Gittings Robeson. The lecture’s purpose is to annually feature a speaker from the agriculture community who explores issues, challenges and innovations in the industry. Robeson and her late husband, Don Robeson, who was a 1954 Monmouth graduate, operated their farm in Warren County.
***Courtesy of Barry McNamara, Monmouth College***
