HOLTS SUMMIT, Mo. – Pro Food Systems Inc., which offers the Champs Chicken program to convenience-store and supermarket operators, recently expanded its team to include a new chief financial officer and four new vice presidents.
"We laid the ground work in 2014 to prepare for several major initiatives being implemented this year," said Shawn Burcham, CEO of Pro Food Systems. "The biggest reason for our consistent success can be credited to the outstanding team of people we have assembled that are dedicated to the success of our customers. To continuously scale up a rapidly growing company, we must have the right people in place to take us to the next level, including our Senior Leadership Team. As a result, we have rapidly expanded this team to include a new CFO and 4 new VP positions."
Trevor Monnig has accepted the critical new position of CFO. Monnig served as CFO for the last 11 years with a manufacturing and distribution company in the Midwest where he led accounting, purchasing, IT, human resources and marketing.
Among the new vice president positions, Dave Yarbrough was promoted to vice president of field operations in January and now leads a retailer support team of regional managers, territory managers and corporate trainers working from coast to coast.
Following a 19-year stint at a multinational consumer goods company, Brock Blaise accepted the newly created position of vice president of operations at Pro Food Systems. He assumed responsibility for both logistics and warehousing.
The company named 13-year Pro Food Systems veteran Darrell Hale as the new vice president of purchasing and customer support.
And the company promoted former director of human resources Carla Dowden to vice president of human resources in late 2014.
Including the leadership expansion, PFS grew its staff overall by nearly 25% last year, the company said.
"I believe we are now better positioned to accelerate our growth for 2015," said Burcham. "Our committed retailers can expect lower food costs and even more support from our corporate team to help them grow their sales and profits."
Pro Food Systems is the parent company of Champs Chicken and Cooper's Express. It distributes its chicken and other products out of the company's 65,000-square-foot corporate headquarters and national distribution center located in Holts Summit, Mo. The company has nearly 700 branded locations in 35 states.
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