Lawrence Kurzius is President – McCormick International for McCormick & Company, Inc. He has responsibility for McCormick’s consumer and industrial businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, Australia and emerging markets. He is a member of McCormick’s Management Committee.
Prior to this, he was the Company’s President – Europe, Middle East and Africa starting in 2007. He was President – U.S. Consumer Foods in 2005 and 2006. Mr. Kurzius joined McCormick’s U.S. Consumer Foods in 2005 as Vice President and General Manager – Sales and Marketing following the acquisition of Zatarain’s in 2003. Mr. Kurzius joined Zatarain’s in 1991 and became President and CEO in 1997. Prior to joining Zatarain’s, Mr. Kurzius was a marketing executive with the Quaker Oats Company and Mars, Inc.’s Uncle Ben’s Company.
Mr. Kurzius graduated from Princeton University, Magna Cum Laude in Economics and is a former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s New Orleans Branch.