United States, April 2026 — Christine Hunter has joined Traditional Medicinals as Chief Human Resources Officer. Her appointment marks an important leadership move for the independent botanical herbal wellness company as it continues to strengthen its people strategy, culture, and organizational capability. With extensive experience across human resources, people and culture, executive coaching, organizational development, and business transformation, she brings a broad and seasoned leadership profile to the role.
Before joining Traditional Medicinals, Christine Hunter served as Senior Vice President, People and Culture at Mezzetta. Prior to that, she spent more than eight years at Central Valley as Senior Vice President, Human Resources, where she was responsible for human resources and strategic projects. Alongside these corporate leadership assignments, she also built entrepreneurial experience as Owner of Hunter Land Management, LLC and Owner of Hunter Consulting, where she specialized in human resources consulting, executive coaching, business growth, and real estate development.
Earlier in her career, she served as Vice President, Operations and Staffing at Zynga, where she led human resources and staffing and also acted as Chief of Staff for the CEO. She also contributed to the professional HR and OD community through governance roles with the Bay Area Organization Development Network, serving both as Secretary, Board of Directors and earlier as President, Board of Directors. These roles reflected her broader engagement in leadership development, organization design, and professional community-building.
A significant part of Christine Hunter’s leadership journey was built at Big Heart Pet Brands, where she served as Vice President, Talent and earlier as Director, Learning and Organization Development. In these roles, she led talent solutions across the company, including performance management, engagement, talent assessment, succession planning, learning and development, and talent acquisition. She also helped drive HR transformation, culture change, leadership competency development, succession planning redesign, and enterprise learning strategies. Her work during this phase highlighted strong expertise in building talent systems and aligning people practices with business strategy.
Before that, she held roles such as Senior Program Manager, Change Management at Juniper Networks and Senior Organization Development Consultant at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, where she worked on large-scale business transformation, ERP and SAP change management, leadership engagement, process improvement, communication planning, and consulting relationships with senior executives. Earlier, she served as Human Resources/Training Manager at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Ventana Big Sur, Operations Project Manager at Centralink, Teacher at Sonoma Valley Unified School District, and Teacher, Peace Corps with the United States Government in Mali, West Africa. Her career journey reflects a unique blend of HR leadership, organizational development, education, consulting, and mission-driven work.
With this depth of experience, Christine Hunter brings to Traditional Medicinals a strong background in people leadership, talent strategy, culture change, executive coaching, and organizational transformation. Her appointment as Chief Human Resources Officer comes at a time when companies in the wellness and consumer products space continue to place growing importance on values-led leadership, employee experience, and sustainable organizational growth.
About Traditional Medicinals
Traditional Medicinals is an independent botanical herbal wellness company where a history of plant knowledge meets modern herbal science. A Certified B Corporation and California Certified Green Business, the company emphasizes sustainability, ingredient purity, and social and environmental activism, and is recognized as the leading seller of wellness tea in the United States.
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