Mar 05, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) announced executive changes. Elane Stock, group president of Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP), has been elected group president of K-C International, and is succeeding Christian Brickman, who has announced his intent to pursue a senior executive officer position outside of K-C. Kim Underhill, currently president of K-C's European consumer business, has been elected president of KCP.

In addition to these executive appointments, K-C's global nonwovens operations and sustainability, safety and continuous improvement teams will now report to Mike Hsu, group president for K-C's North American consumer business. These teams previously reported to Stock. The European consumer business will now report to Gustavo Calvo Paz, who will become president of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Calvo Paz currently leads K-C's business in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

"K-C has a deep bench of talented leaders to drive our business plan strategies across the globe," said Chairman and CEO Thomas J. Falk. "Elane, Kim, Mike and Gustavo are all strong leaders with proven strategic, operational and innovation experience. These changes will help us further build our already strong consumer and professional businesses."

All of these changes are effective April 1, 2014. Hsu, Stock and Underhill will report to Falk. Calvo Paz will report to Stock.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products.