Patricia Kief

Vita

Patricia Kief has been Head of Marketing at the ZNU since spring 2018. She supports the center management strategically and operationally in the communication and marketing of ZNU activities, partner management and the further development of the ZNU portfolio. Patricia Kief has over 20 years of professional experience in the food industry. After working for companies such as Dr. Oetker and Mars, she held various marketing positions at Ornua Deutschland GmbH, where she was responsible for the communication of the Kerrygold umbrella brand. As the responsible sustainability manager, she implemented, realized and further developed the ZNU standard “Sustainable Management” from 2013. She has also worked as a lecturer in ZNU seminars and was a practice partner in the ZNU research project “The handprint - a measure of the positive sustainability impact of products”. Patricia Kief studied economics at the University of Paderborn and the Université du Maine in France. She specialized in marketing and international management.