Beyond Meat® Announces New Executive Leadership Appointments to Accelerate and Support the Company’s Vision for Strategic ...
June 04 2021 - 9:00AM
Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND), a leader in plant-based meat,
today announced the appointments of Phil Hardin as Chief Financial
Officer, Deanna Jurgens as Chief Growth Officer and Margaret
“Jackie” Trask as Chief People Officer. These seasoned veterans
bring extensive experience to the Beyond Meat executive leadership
team to support the company's continued growth and
innovation-focused culture.
“We are excited to welcome Phil, Deanna and
Jackie to the Beyond Meat executive leadership team,” said Ethan
Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, Beyond Meat. “In each
case, we conducted extensive searches to identify best-in-class
talent and I could not be more pleased with
the outcome. Whether Deanna's highly successful
customer-focused leadership at PepsiCo, Jackie's impressive track
record of building teams and raising the bar at JAFRA, or
Phil's long tenure of strategic investing for outsized future
growth at Amazon, today we've put in place key members of the team
to help drive the business toward our goal of being tomorrow's
global protein company."
Phil Hardin joins Beyond Meat as Chief Financial
Officer after spending more than 15 years at Amazon in finance and
investor relations across many business units. Mr. Hardin’s
experience at Amazon, one of the world’s largest high-growth
companies, aligns with Beyond Meat’s challenger-brand mentality
aimed at disrupting the world’s largest food category. He most
recently served as Vice President, Finance for Amazon Advertising
and held several other leadership roles during his tenure at
Amazon, including Director, Finance for EU Customer Fulfillment,
Director, Investor Relations for Amazon.com, and Director, Finance
for Kindle Content & Digital Subsidiaries. Mr. Hardin will join
Beyond Meat in July 2021.
Deanna Jurgens joins Beyond Meat as Chief Growth
Officer after serving as Chief Global Sales Officer at skincare
company Rodan & Fields, where she was responsible for sales
across the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. Ms. Jurgens
brings over 20 years of experience with a proven record of growing
sales and profit through strategy, branding, marketing, operational
excellence and innovative approaches. She has also held senior
leadership roles across PepsiCo’s North America business during her
more than 15-year career at the food and beverage giant, most
recently as Senior Vice President for Frito-Lay’s largest operating
business. She was also responsible for some of PepsiCo’s largest
retail customers as Vice President and General Manager for Target;
Vice President of Sales for Quaker, Tropicana and Gatorade for
Sam’s Club; and Vice President of Insights, Strategy and Advanced
Analytics for Walmart. Ms. Jurgens is assuming the responsibilities
of Chief Growth Officer effective today, upon the retirement of
Charles Muth.
Margaret “Jackie” Trask joins Beyond Meat as
Chief People Officer after 14 years of leading human resources and
employee processes at cosmetics company JAFRA Cosmetics
International, where she most recently served as Senior Vice
President of Worldwide Human Resources. Ms. Trask brings more than
30 years of experience in all aspects of human resources, including
talent acquisition, employee development and employee engagement.
In her role at JAFRA, she led human resources for more than 2,200
employees in eleven countries and was instrumental in the
organization’s launch in three countries and the consolidation of
five European countries into one centralized hub. She also served
as a member of JAFRA’s Executive Committee. Prior to JAFRA, she
served as Vice President of Human Resources & Facilities at
Triad Financial Corporation and was a Compensation Consultant with
Hay Management Consultants and Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers
Watson). Ms. Trask joined Beyond Meat in March 2021.
Contact:
Media:Shira Zackaishira.zackai@beyondmeat.com
Investors: Fitzhugh Taylor and Raphael
Grossbeyondmeat@icrinc.com
About Beyond MeatBeyond Meat,
Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND) is one of the fastest growing food companies in
the United States, offering a portfolio of revolutionary
plant-based proteins made from simple ingredients without GMOs,
bioengineered ingredients, hormones, antibiotics or cholesterol.
Founded in 2009, Beyond Meat products are designed to have the same
taste and texture as animal-based meat while being better for
people and the planet. Beyond Meat’s brand commitment, Eat What You
Love™, represents a strong belief that there is a better way to
feed our future and that the positive choices we all make, no
matter how small, can have a great impact on our personal health
and the health of our planet. By shifting from animal-based meat to
plant-based protein, we can positively impact four growing global
issues: human health, climate change, constraints on natural
resources and animal welfare. As of March 2021, Beyond Meat had
products available at approximately 118,000 retail and foodservice
outlets in over 80 countries worldwide. Visit www.BeyondMeat.com
and follow @BeyondMeat, #BeyondBurger and #GoBeyond on Facebook,
Instagram and Twitter and @BeyondMeatOfficial on TikTok.
Beyond Meat Forward Looking
StatementsCertain statements in this release constitute
“forward-looking statements.” These statements are based on
management’s current opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans,
objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or
future results. These forward-looking statements are only
predictions, not historical fact, and involve certain risks and
uncertainties, as well as assumptions. Actual results, levels of
activity, performance, achievements and events could differ
materially from those stated, anticipated or implied by such
forward-looking statements. While Beyond Meat believes that its
assumptions are reasonable, it is very difficult to predict the
impact of known factors, and, of course, it is impossible to
anticipate all factors that could affect actual results. There are
many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from forward-looking statements made herein
including, most prominently, the risks discussed under the heading
“Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2020 filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 1, 2021, and the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 3, 2021
filed with the SEC on May 13, 2021, as well as other factors
described from time to time in Beyond Meat’s filings with the SEC.
Such forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of
this release. Beyond Meat undertakes no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statement because of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise
required by law. If we do update one or more forward-looking
statements, no inference should be made that we will make
additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking
statements.
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