Atlanta Community Food Bank promotes Jeff Werner to chief information officer
Jeff Werner moved from interim CIO to a permanent executive role as Atlanta Community Food Bank handled 112 million meals and 3 million neighbor visits in FY2025.
Atlanta Community Food Bank promoted Jeff Werner to chief information officer on June 30, putting its interim technology leader into a permanent executive role with responsibility for technology strategy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, and data and analytics. The move adds Werner to the food bank’s executive leadership team under president and CEO Kyle Waide.
Werner joined the organization in early 2023 as director of business intelligence, then took on the interim CIO post before the promotion. That path matters inside a food-recovery operation where systems do more than support office work: they help keep partner agencies supplied, track neighborhood demand, and make sure volunteer-driven logistics do not break down when donation volume spikes or routes change.
The scale of Atlanta Community Food Bank shows why the role has become central. The organization said it distributed 112 million meals in fiscal year 2025 and supported 3 million neighbor visits. It works with more than 700 community-based nonprofit partners across 29 counties, and it describes itself as the fourth largest food bank in the nation by distribution.
Its own facts-and-stats materials add more context for the kind of infrastructure Werner now oversees. The food bank says one in eight neighbors in its service area is food insecure, it distributes more than 9 million meals each month, and it serves nearly 820,000 neighbors across metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Those numbers point to a network that depends on dependable data handling, secure systems, and coordination across partner sites, inventory flows, and service records.
For food-recovery groups that rely on volunteers, route planning, and pantry partnerships, the promotion is another sign that technology leadership is no longer a back-office role. The food bank’s leadership page places Werner alongside Waide and the rest of the executive team, underscoring that information systems now sit at the center of how large hunger-relief organizations move food, measure reach, and keep services running.
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