October 29/Chicago/PRNewswire -- James E. Hurley, president and CEO of Vegetable Juices Inc., has been named a Fellow of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton Fellows is a lifelong network of thought leaders -- senior executives, Wharton faculty and leading experts -- that provides critical knowledge and unparalleled decision support to proactively meet the business challenges of nonlinear, disruptive change.

"It's very exciting to be chosen," said Hurley. "I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent at Wharton both in the classroom and as a guest lecturer and look forward to interacting with some of the best minds in business and academia."

Hurley was inducted at the Wharton Fellows master class in Washington in October.

From the November 9, 2009, Prepared Foods E-dition