Executive Management
Kenneth J. Sobaski, MBA
President & Chief Operating Officer (also Director, Capella University)
Kenneth J. Sobaski, MBA
Kenneth J. Sobaski was appointed president and chief operating officer of Capella Education Company in 2006 and was elected to the Capella University board of directors in 2007. Between 2002 and 2005, he served as an officer and vice president — sales, marketing, and business development of Polaris Industries Inc. The previous year, he was an officer and vice president — marketing and business development for that company. From 1999 to 2001, Sobaski served as president of ConAgra Grocery Brands of ConAgra Foods, Inc. His prior experience also includes executive marketing, general management, and sales positions for a number of consumer product marketing companies, including The Pillsbury Company, The Drackett Company (a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb), Kraft Foods, Inc., and General Mills, Inc. Sobaski earned a Bachelor of Arts from St. Olaf College and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.