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Steven M. Neil is an American corporate executive, best known as the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Executive Vice President of Diamond Foods, Inc. Neil was also former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Cooper Companies, Inc., and Ocular Sciences, Inc., contact lens manufacturers.

Education and early career
Steven Neil earned his B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He worked with Applied Magnetics Corporation serving as Chief Accounting Officer from 1983 to 1993 before joining Perrigo Company in 1993; there he served as Chief Financial Officer and President of its International division from 1995 to 1997. He functioned as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Sola International Inc. from 1997 to 2003, Ocular Sciences, Inc. from 2003 to 2005 and Cooper Companies, Inc. from 2005 to 2008. In March 2008, Neil became the CFO of Diamond Foods, Inc.

Philanthropy
Under Neil’s management, Emerald Nuts sponsored the final five miles of the 2009 and 2010 ING New York City Marathon, which supports healthy lifestyles. Upon acquiring Kettle brand chips in 2010, Diamond Foods and the State of Oregon agreed to a public-private sector partnership to create an $8 million expansion to the Kettle plant in Salem, Oregon.