Peter Erickson Senior Vice President, Innovation, Technology and Quality

As senior vice president of Innovation, Technology and Quality, Peter Erickson is responsible for the invention and commercialization of new food products and technologies by providing increasingly higher levels of health, taste and convenience.

Erickson's responsibility for the General Mills Quality organization is focused on delivering brands that its consumers can trust and value through its global leadership in consumer and product safety, in addition to its product quality, regulatory and technical excellence.

Erickson has been employed by General Mills for the past 20 years.  Prior to that, he worked in product development as a senior food scientist at General Foods Corporation in White Plains, N.Y.

Erickson received both a B.S. and M.S. degree in food science at the University of Massachusetts, where he continues to serve as a member of the university’s food science external advisory board.