New leadership team for Maple Leaf Foods

Maple Leaf Foods is shuffling the executive deck as it prepares for the departure of Michael McCain as president and chief executive officer and makes way for Curtis Frank to take those roles in the spring.

McCain will remain as executive chairman of the board.

Casey Richards, senior vice president of marketing, is promoted to the newly-created position of president and chief growth officer. Richards will assume accountability for the value-added prepared meats and poultry businesses under one combined organizational unit to drive profitable growth, Maple Leaf said in a news release.

Iain Stewart, senior vice president of operations and supply chain, is promoted to the newly-created role of chief supply chain officer. He will lead an effort to further refine the company's manufacturing strategy to leverage its expertise in operations, purchasing, supply chain and engineering into a sustainable competitive advantage, Maple Leaf said.

Adam Grogan, president of Maple Leaf's Greenleaf Foods subsidiary, is appointed president of alternative protein. Grogan will continue to lead the Greenleaf business and will add responsibility for commercializing and broadening the company's innovation and investment strategy in meat protein alternatives to deliver long-term financial and sustainability performance.

Jumoke Fagbemi

Jumoke Fagbemi will join Maple Leaf's senior leadership team in January as the new senior vice president for people.  She comes from Merck and since 2020 has been senior vice-president of human resources for Airbus.

Patrick Lutfy, vice president of marketing, is promoted to senior vice president of marketing, replacing Casey Richards.