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UNC Clean Tech Speaker

David Yates

David Yates
Retired President
Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition

Biography

David Yates is a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.  His focus at UNC is helping Early Care and Education (ECE) providers to serve healthier foods to young children.  In 2016, he was a fellow in the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative.  He retired as the President of Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition, Inc.  Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of the Gerber Products Division.  David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance, both from the University of Chicago.