Julie Smolyansky
Julie Smolyansky is the CEO of Illinois-based dairy company Lifeway Foods.
She was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to Ludmila and Michael Smolyansky. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was one.[1] She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996.[2]
Her father founded the kefir company Lifeway Foods in 1986.[3] She joined the business in 1997. After he died of a heart attack in 2002,[4] Julie, aged 27, became the youngest CEO of a publicly traded firm.[5]
She, along with her brother as CFO, transformed the company into a multinational firm, growing its revenue from $12 million to $98 million in 2013.[6]
Smolyansky has served on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
References
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- ↑ SEC filing, Lifeway Foods Inc, 31 December 1999
- ↑ Business Wire, 11 June 2002, Lifeway Foods Announces Death of President Michael Smolyansky; Board Appoints Julie Smolyansky as Successor.
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External links
- Entrepreneur: Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Foods, interview with Bill Moller
