Tim Smucker
Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer The J.M. Smucker CompanyTimothy P. Smucker is Chairman of the Board and Co-CEO of The J. M. Smucker Company and the great-grandson of J. M. (Jerome Monroe) Smucker, founder of the company bearing his name. Tim shares the office of the Chief Executive Officer with his brother, Richard, who is also the Company’s Executive Chairman.
Tim graduated from The College of Wooster in 1967 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before being named Chairman in 1987, he held various marketing and operational positions with the Company, including President and Chief Operating Officer.
In addition to serving on the Board of Smucker’s, Tim is a director of Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., and Hallmark Cards, Inc. He is Chairman Emeritus of the GS1 Management Board, a global standards organization and a member of the Steering Committee of Heartland Education Community, Inc., an Orrville community education reform effort.
He is married to the former Jennifer Coddington, and they have three children and five grandchildren.