Beyond Meat Appoints Phil Hardin CFO

Further than Meat appointed Phil Hardin as its new finance main. Hardin joins the plant-primarily based meat maker from Amazon, wherever he worked for 15 years in finance and trader relations across several organization models. 

Hardin was most lately vice president of finance for Amazon Advertising and held other leadership roles, which include director of finance for EU buyer success, director of trader relations for Amazon.com, and director of finance for Kindle content material and digital subsidiaries. He will join the corporation next month.

The corporation also named Deanna Jurgens as its main growth officer and Margaret Trask as main persons officer. 

“In every circumstance, we performed substantial searches to discover best-in-class expertise and I could not be extra happy with the result,” claimed Ethan Brown, president and CEO of Further than Meat. “Whether Deanna’s really prosperous buyer-focused leadership at PepsiCo, Jackie’s amazing observe file of making groups and elevating the bar at JAFRA, or Phil’s lengthy tenure of strategic investing for outsized potential growth at Amazon, currently we have put in place vital members of the staff to enable travel the organization toward our aim of staying tomorrow’s global protein corporation.” 

Hardin replaces former CFO Mark Nelson, who retired on May possibly five but will stay as a marketing consultant until May possibly five, 2023. Nelson joined the corporation as its CFO in December 2015 and played a vital purpose in Further than Meat’s blockbuster public listing in 2019. 

Nelson has appear under issue just after staying named in a fraud statements lawsuit submitted by former Further than Meat supplier Don Lee Farms. Further than Meat countersued Don Lee Farms and a demo is scheduled for later on this calendar year. 

“We will establish our declare that Further than Meat misappropriated our trade techniques to manufacture the Further than Burger and other products and solutions. We will establish the breach of the distinctive source agreement and fraud declare dedicated by Mr. Nelson and other people,” claimed Donald Goodman, president of Don Lee Farms.

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