Irene Rosenfeld

Irene Rosenfeld grew up outside New York City. Excelling in school and competitive sports, she dreamed of one day becoming President of the United States. $2$ "I have been a hard charger my whole life," Rosenfeld said. "I tell the story when I was the treasurer of my Brownie troop, we had record intake." She attended Cornell University on a work$-$study scholarship, playing basketball until suffering an injury, ${?}^3$ and completing an MSc in business administration and a PhD in marketing and statistics. ${?}^4$ In $1981,$ Rosenfeld joined an advertising agency before moving to the consumer research department at General Foods Corporation. She was one of the first two women named to head a