Ned Hentz
Founder & CEO
Ned has worn many hats during his career in marketing. He spent the last 20 years working closely with his father-in-law, Lee Iacocca, on a variety of projects, including the Olivio Premium products, which markets and distributes a line of healthy food products featuring olive oil as a key ingredient. Annual sales at Olivio now exceed $21 million. His first job after college was writing speeches for the Chairman of Dun and Bradstreet. During his career in advertising he worked as a copywriter at Jordan, Case & McGrath in New York, McCann-Erikson in Los Angeles and BBDO in New York City. He served as the Chairman of the Nutrition Roundtable at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Nutrition for ten years and is active on several other boards and trade associations. Ned graduated with honors from Middlebury College and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He and his wife Kate live in Massachusetts and have four children.