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Vi-Jon CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Rich Koulouris is the Vi-Jon's CEO. Vi-Jon has 1,350 employees, of which 17 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Vi-Jon executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
  • 70% of the management team is White.
  • 7% of Vi-Jon management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Rich Koulouris

CEO

John Brunner

Founder

Viola Brunner

Founder

Alice Clark Sphr, Shrm-Scp

Chief Human Resources Officer

Alice Clark Sphr, Shrm-Scp's LinkedIn

Alice Clark, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is a Chief Human Resources Officer at Vi-Jon and is based in Area, Tennessee. She has worked as St. Louis, MO at Post Foods; Regional Human Resources Manager at RALCORP HOLDINGS INC; and Vice President Human Resources at RALCORP HOLDINGS INC. Alice attended University of Mississippi.

Gregory Billhartz

President and Chief Strategy Officer

Gregory Billhartz's LinkedIn

Results-oriented business leader with demonstrated success managing people and projects in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments

Darren Baker

President and Chief Operating Officer

Darren Baker's LinkedIn

Joseph Meehan

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Keith Grypp

Chief Legal Officer

Scott Mekus

Chief Financial Officer

Eduardo Alves

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Eduardo Alves's LinkedIn

Eduardo Alves is a Chief Sales & Marketing Ofcr at Vi-Jon and Sr VP:Sales at Cumberland Swan Holdings Inc.. He works or has worked as Chief Sales Officer at Cumberland Swan Holdings Inc. and Chief Sales Officer at Vi-Jon. Eduardo attended Southern Methodist University, Harvard University, and WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

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Vi-Jon founders

Name & TitleBio
John Brunner

Founder

Viola Brunner

Founder

Vi-Jon board members

Name & TitleBio
Rich Koulouris

CEO

Ben Levy

Board Member

Ed Kolodzieski

Board Member

Jane Wilson

Board Member

Sharlyn Shar

Board Member

Vi-Jon leadership demographics

Vi-Jon gender distribution in management team

  • The Vi-Jon executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
  • Vi-Jon is 39% female and 61% male company-wide.
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Male
71%
Company-wide: 61%
Female
Female
29%
Company-wide: 39%

Vi-Jon executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Vi-Jon executive officers is White.
  • 70% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of Vi-Jon's management is Black or African American.
  • 8% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 72% of employees are White.
  • 11% of employees are Black or African American.
  • 8% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • Management team
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What employees say about the executives at Vi-Jon

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A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2024
Pros of working at Vi-Jon

Worked nights so less pressure, less management walking around for no reason. Benefits overall weren’t bad. They started an ESOP.

Cons of working at Vi-Jon

Management trying to run the biz into the ground. Too much micromanagement and they won’t spend any money to make money. It seems like the only time they upgrade anything or even paint is when visitors are coming. The ESOP doesn’t mean anything as employees have no power. They don’t train anymore, they don’t listen to employees and they don’t properly plan changes or upgrades. The environment has become toxic and they don’t care

Vi-Jon benefits

Health insurance was decent. They used to have someone who stocked the company store where they gave employees unsellable merchandise and it was good. They took that away, along with anything they used to do to boost morale or make it seem like they cared.

What do you like best about Vi-Jon's CEO and the leadership team?

Not really anything. Many upper positions change frequently. The plant manager of Smyrna brags how he started out as a line operator but he’s obviously forgotten what that’s like. He micromanages instead of letting his supervisors manage and he was fired once just to be brought back after the next guy wasn’t popular with the board.

How would you improve Vi-Jon's culture?

Make the ESOP mean something. Stock is nice but if employees have zero say so it’s not worth much. Engage the employees and make conditions better for them. Instead of just throwing warm bodies at a line to get product out, get them involved and train them properly. They created a line just to handle rework because it became such a problem.

How did you prepare for the Vi-Jon interview?

Had my resume and my work experience. There wasn’t much more than that. It was at a time when they paid to train people in skills that were necessary. Then they scrapped the whole training program

How does your compensation at Vi-Jon compare to the industry average?

The pay wasnt bad for my position but they changed the titles of all maintenance so they could make them more Freeform to get what they needed done. After awhile your only raise was yearly cost of living which amounted to a couple percent if you were lucky. No job reviews or progress.

What's the diversity at Vi-Jon like?

They hired anyone. And very strongly went for diversity whether the hired person was the most qualified or not.

What brings you the most joy at Vi-Jon?

I liked being able to work on projects and bring things to my manager that we could fix and that worked. Being able to make a difference for those working on the line

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