Headquarters:
277 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto, ON
Year founded:
2012
Number of employees:
2,000+
Phone:
1 877 682 8772
Email:
pierina.decarolis@mdlz.com
Website:
mondelezinternational.com
LinkedIn:
ca.linkedin.com/company/technical-standards-safety-authority-tssa
Mondelez Canada
Naniss Gadel-Rab
President
Marina Petrusic
Senior Director of Health, Safety & Sustainability
Nand Kulkarni
Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain
Leadership
Naniss Gadel-Rab is a transformational leader with more than two decades of global experience across supply chain, sales, strategy, marketing, and e-commerce. She began her career as an engineer through Unilever’s Future Leaders Program in the Middle East and went on to work across multiple markets.
As president of Mondelez Canada since 2025, Gadel-Rab is responsible for leading one of the company’s fastest-growing businesses while accelerating digital and social transformation. She is known for her authentic, people-first leadership and for turning change into growth and opportunity.
President
Naniss Gadel-Rab
Marina Petrusic is a senior leader advancing excellence in health and safety across Canada’s grocery and CPG sectors. As senior director of health, safety & sustainability at Mondelez Canada, she embeds safety as a core business priority – driving performance, resilience, and long-term growth.
With over a decade of industry experience, Petrusic is known for her strategic leadership, strong executive influence, and ability to transform safety culture at scale. She champions proactive, people-first environments where safety is a shared value, elevating standards and empowering teams to perform at their best every day.
Senior Director of Health, Safety & Sustainability
Marina Petrusic
Nand Kulkarni is VP, supply chain at Mondelez Canada, and North America integrated supply chain, digital lead, responsible for advancing digital transformation across the organization. He leads the N-Ply chain digital roadmap, driving investment prioritization, capability building, governance, and adoption.
With 26 years of experience, including 15 at MDLZ across AMEA and North America, Kulkarni has a strong record of results delivery. He previously led digital transformation in India, where the Sridty plant was recognized as a World Economic Forum Digital Lighthouse, and successfully turned around the supply chain at Mondelez Canada.
Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain
Nand Kulkarni
Yossef El Bromboly
Senior Director & People Lead
Yossef El Bromboly is senior director & people lead at Mondelez Canada. Since joining Mondelez in 2022, he has driven a strong people agenda across commercial and enabling functions, focusing on talent management, organizational design, and team effectiveness. He later led Mondelez Canada Supply Chain, enhancing ways of working, advancing labour strategy, and strengthening culture initiatives, contributing to an engagement score of 84 in 2025.
Yossef is a trusted strategic partner and culture champion. Prior to Mondelez, he held diverse HR roles across Egypt, MENAP, and Canada, with organizations including Takeda, Bayer, Wady, and Americana.
Senior Director & People Lead
Yossef El Bromboly
Lisa Dymond
Vice President, People, and Culture
Lisa Dymond joined the TSSA in July 2023 as vice president, people, and culture, leading the HR, labour relations, and training and certification teams. In this role, she oversees the development and implementation of programs that support people leaders and employees, foster an engaged workforce, and build a culture aligned with TSSA’s Outcome-Based Regulator approach.
Dymond brings extensive experience as a strategic leader in both Canada and the UK, with senior roles at the BBC in London and CBC in Toronto. Her most recent positions include VP of human resources at WSIB and VP of client services at Metrolinx.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s University and a postgraduate certificate in human resources from Seneca College.
Vice President, People, and Culture
Lisa Dymond
For Mondelēz Canada, safety is a core value that shapes every decision across the company’s Canadian sites: Mondelēz Canada Corporate Office, East York Bakery, Hamilton Candy Factory, Cadbury Chocolate Factory, Scarborough Bakery, Bertrand Halls Factory, and the Hamilton Distribution Centre.
The distinction Mondelēz Canada draws between a priority and a value is central to understanding what sets it apart. Priorities, as the company sees it, can be traded off against productivity or cost pressures, whereas values cannot. “Safety is not a function or a program – it is a value,” the company states plainly, and that belief anchors everything from how leaders walk the floor to how employees report near-misses.
One of Mondelēz Canada’s most distinctive programs is its Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) strategy. In addition to traditional methods, such as formal inspections, VFL is embedded as a daily leadership habit: site directors, managers, and supervisors regularly walk the floor, engage in safety conversations, and listen deeply to frontline employees.
“The safety culture at Mondelēz is not just about compliance or preventing incidents – it’s about a deep, personal commitment to the well-being of every person we work with. It means understanding that safety is a shared responsibility that extends far beyond policies and procedures. Every colleague deserves to leave our facilities in better condition than they arrived. This isn’t just about physical safety – it’s about fostering an environment where people can thrive, grow, and feel genuinely cared for”
Navneet Tandon,
SENIOR QUALITY DIRECTOR, MONDELĒZ CANADA
Kelly Hart
Vice President, Operations
Neil FitzGerald
Vice President, Strategic Analytics
Dan Brazier
Vice President, Information Technology
Simon Williams
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Kelly Hart is vice president of operations at the TSSA. She was promoted to this role in 2025 after a distinguished career at TSSA, which began in 2012 when she joined as assistant general counsel. Hart has held various leadership positions at TSSA, including director of fuels safety, manager of public information and records and director of investigations.
A member of the Ontario Bar since 2002, she has dedicated her career to protecting the public interest, with previous roles in the Office of the Ontario Attorney General (Criminal) and the Law Society of Ontario.
Vice President, Operations
Kelly Hart
As vice president of strategic analytics, Neil FitzGerald is responsible for organizing data, analytics, and AI to strengthen TSSA’s evidence-based decision-making and improve safety outcomes across Ontario. FitzGerald brings over 25 years of experience across data management, governance, business intelligence, AI, and advanced analytics. He has delivered impactful data solutions across diverse industries including high tech/software, commercial real estate, and oil and gas.
FitzGerald earned his degree in computer science from Queen’s University, his MBA from the Ivey School of Business, and advanced certification in the application of AI from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vice President, Strategic Analytics
Neil FitzGerald
Daniel Brazier, CPA, CA, serves as TSSA’s vice president of information technology (IT), following his previous role as chief financial officer, where he held broader responsibilities that included oversight of IT operations.
In this focused mandate, Brazier leads TSSA’s IT strategy and implementation, with a priority on modernizing the organization’s IT policies, infrastructure, and security to support its outcome-based regulatory approach.
Before joining TSSA, he held interim management and consulting roles with the Ontario Securities Commission and Moneris. Earlier in his career, he held a range of executive finance positions in Canada and internationally with CIBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and UBS.
Vice President, Information Technology
Dan Brazier
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Training at Mondelēz Canada is designed as a continuous journey rather than a periodic event. New employees complete a comprehensive safety induction before beginning work. Role-specific hazard training, lockout/tagout and process safety workshops are all part of a layered curriculum, supplemented by toolbox talks and safety moments on every shift. Cross-site capability-building programs bring together employees from different facilities to learn from one another, accelerating improvement and deepening a shared safety identity.
Mondelēz Canada’s forward commitments reflect the same ambition that has defined its journey so far. A zero-harm target underpins all future risk-reduction initiatives, while continued investment in psychological safety aims to ensure every employee feels genuinely empowered to speak up. Data-driven analytics and digital safety tools are being introduced to identify and eliminate risks proactively – tools the company views not as a replacement for human connection, but as an amplifier of it.
Mondelēz Canada firmly believes that a safety culture is not a destination but a journey, with its leadership approach grounded in the principle that when people feel safe, cared for, and valued, they perform at their very best.
Accountability is built into the model from the top down. Mondelēz Canada President Naniss Gadel-Rab, VP of Integrated Supply Chain Nandkumar Kulkarni, and Senior Director of HSE & Sustainability Marina Petrusic have been instrumental in elevating safety from a compliance function to a cultural movement – one that every leader across the company is expected to champion.
Several programs give Mondelēz Canada’s safety culture its operational backbone. Its Integrated Lean Six Sigma model weaves safety standards directly into daily production routines, making safe behaviour inseparable from how work gets done. A Behavioural Observation System empowers employees to conduct peer observations and deliver feedback, shifting ownership from management to every employee.
Regular Gemba walks take leaders onto the floor to surface concerns and demonstrate genuine investment in employee well-being. Complementing this are anonymous reporting channels, joint health and safety committees at every site, and cross-site safety forums where representatives from all locations and functions share learnings and drive collective action.
“Safety is a value for me. There is a strong difference between priorities and value. Priorities can evolve over time, but value stays fundamental. Hence, we bring safety at the core of everything we do. Our Zero Harm approach is powerful, and it makes the work so meaningful for us and our loved ones. We are incredibly proud of our journey so far and even more committed to the journey ahead”
Nandkumar Kulkarni,
VP OF INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN, MONDELĒZ CANADA
