Hongfei Zheng

About Hongfei 

Hongfei Zheng joined Cargill Animal Nutrition in 2020, and currently is the President and Group Leader for Cargill Animal Nutrition North Asia, responsible for business management and development in China, South Korea, and Japan. Since rejoining, she successfully led the transformation in CAN and led the team to deliver consistent growth through customer focus and glocal (global-local) innovations.

Before her role at Cargill Animal Nutrition, she served as Vice President, Strategy, Knowledge & Insights for Coca-Cola’s businesses in Greater China and Korea from 2018-2020 and was responsible for corporate and portfolio strategy, consumer, insights, digital transformation, and M&A. She successfully built Coca-Cola’s 2025 Greater China strategy.

Prior to Coca-Cola, Hongfei worked at Cargill China as the Head of Corporate Strategy and Development from 2017-2018. She is a member of Cargill China's leadership team and has worked closely with executive team members, and board members to develop APAC and China business strategies and investments.

Hongfei also previously worked at Hilti Ltd., a European engineering solution company as the Head of Oil &Gas and Chemical Business in China from 2013-2016, and the Marketing Director of APAC. She successfully managed to double the business income and triple profit in two years. Before that, Hongfei worked at Bain & Co. for eight years offering strategy consulting services to multinational and Chinese enterprises.

Hongfei obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Economics degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with a Master’s (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) and an MBA from INSEAD (France).