Michael Kruse

Michael Kruse is an experienced packaging engineer with a career spanning over a decade, currently serving as an Associate Principal Packaging Engineer at General Mills since January 2012, where packaging R&D supports the Blue Buffalo pet food brand. Prior roles at General Mills include Senior R&D Engineer - Team Leader, Senior R&D Engineer, and Packaging Engineer II, focusing on snacks products and Pillsbury brand. Michael's background includes internship experience at General Mills and Ecolab, as well as work as a Supplemental Manufacturing Worker at IBM. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Packaging with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where involvement included serving as President of the Stout PMI Student Chapter.