Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Kristin Papesh to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, effective November 27, 2023. Additionally, Sheri Grissom, the Company's current Chief Human Resources and Transformation Officer, will solely focus on leading the Company's Transformation Management Office in her role of Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer beginning November 27, 2023. Papesh joins Fortune Brands from Walgreens Boots Alliance, serving most recently as Senior Vice President, HR Business Partnering, HR M&A and Labor Relations.

Prior to that role, she has held roles of increasing responsibility in the HR Business Partner and HR M&A specialties. Before joining Walgreens Boots Alliance, she was with Pfizer from 2015 to 2021, where she held various Human Resource leadership positions, first serving as Vice President, HR Pfizer Essential Health R&D, and then as Vice President, Human Resources, supporting Pfizer?s Worldwide Research, Development & Medical, Global Regulatory Affairs & Chief Business Office organizations. She joined Pfizer when it acquired Hospira in 2015, having been Hospira?s Vice President of Human Resources, Global Commercial from 2014.

In her new role at Fortune Brands, Papesh will report to Fink.