Michael Nathenson — Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer at Blue Buffalo Pet Products

Mr. Michael Nathenson, also known as Mike, has been Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer at Blue Buffalo Pet Products, Inc. since 2012. Mr. Nathenson was with Dean Foods from 2009 to 2012, where he was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of the Dean Foods Dairy Group. He served as Executive Officer of Pepsico, Inc. since June 2009. Mr. Nathenson served as Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Pepsico, Inc. from 2008 to June 2009. Previously, Mr. Nathenson served as vice president, PepsiCo Financial Planning & Analysis. At PepsiCo, he spent almost 14 years in a variety of operational finance roles including as the Chief Financial Officer of Frito Lay's Australia subsidiary from 2000 to 2004. He then moved to the corporate side where he led PepsiCo's FP&A group from 2004 to 2008. He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.