Butterball CEO and leadership

Jay Jandrain, president and chief executive officer of Butterball, LLC, is responsible for leading business strategy for the world’s largest turkey producer. Jandrain previously served as chief operating officer for Butterball, LLC, overseeing plant operations, corporate purchasing, transportation and warehousing, demand and supply planning, corporate engineering and research and development (R&D). Jandrain joined Butterball in May of 2002 as the director of product R&D. He has since held roles including vice president of deli sales, vice president of product R&D, vice president of integrated business strategy and executive vice president of sales.

Prior to Butterball, Jandrain held multiple sales, marketing and R&D management positions with companies such as Cargill and Plantation Foods. He received his Bachelor of Science in Food Science from Cornell University.

Bill Klump is a Chief Marketing Officer at Butterball and Board Member at Intl Dairy-Deli-Bakery-Assoc. He has worked as Chairman at Intl Dairy-Deli-Bakery-Assoc.

Kerry Doughty is a President & Chief Executive Officer at Butterball.

Suzanne Griffin joined Butterball, LLC in 2012 and currently serves as senior vice president, general counsel and chief risk officer. Making use of a broad legal background in agriculture, industry and finance, she provides legal advice to senior management and works closely with the business lines on business and commercial issues. She is also responsible for environmental and workplace safety management as well as providing oversight for other risk related issues.

Prior to joining Butterball, Griffin was a partner at Poyner Spruill, LLP. Griffin also spent three years as Deputy General Counsel at the US bank subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada and has significant agriculture law experience from her eight years in leadership roles with Continental Grain Company. Griffin has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, College of Agriculture and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

Barry Gum serves as chief financial officer for Butterball, LLC. Gum is responsible for all treasury, accounting and IT functions. Gum earned a Business Administration- Accounting degree from the University of Kansas. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a senior auditor. He came to Butterball after 22 years at our partial owner, Seaboard Corporation, where he worked in various financial leadership roles both at Seaboard Farms- Poultry Division and corporate.

Neal Walsh, chief operating officer, has direct responsibility for company operations across Butterball’s six turkey processing facilities and all operational support functions. He focuses on executing Butterball’s strategic company priorities and long-range operations plan and is an executive champion in driving Butterball’s culture of continuous improvement.

He joined Butterball in 2007 and has held several roles of increasing responsibility within the company’s operations team including vice president of strategic business initiatives and vice president of operations.