March 29, 2024

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Beyond Meat Appoints Phil Hardin CFO

Over and above Meat appointed Phil Hardin as its new finance chief. Hardin joins the plant-dependent meat maker from Amazon, where he worked for fifteen decades in finance and investor relations across many business units. 

Hardin was most just lately vice president of finance for Amazon Advertising and marketing and held other management roles, which include director of finance for EU customer achievement, director of investor relations for Amazon.com, and director of finance for Kindle information and digital subsidiaries. He will be part of the company up coming thirty day period.

The company also named Deanna Jurgens as its chief development officer and Margaret Trask as chief men and women officer. 

“In every case, we carried out comprehensive queries to recognize ideal-in-course expertise and I could not be much more pleased with the end result,” reported Ethan Brown, president and CEO of Over and above Meat. “Whether Deanna’s really productive customer-focused management at PepsiCo, Jackie’s remarkable monitor report of making groups and boosting the bar at JAFRA, or Phil’s prolonged tenure of strategic investing for outsized future development at Amazon, now we’ve put in position essential customers of the workforce to assistance generate the business toward our objective of becoming tomorrow’s world protein company.” 

Hardin replaces former CFO Mark Nelson, who retired on May 5 but will continue being as a expert until finally May 5, 2023. Nelson joined the company as its CFO in December 2015 and performed a essential purpose in Over and above Meat’s blockbuster community listing in 2019. 

Nelson has arrive under question immediately after becoming named in a fraud promises lawsuit submitted by former Over and above Meat provider Don Lee Farms. Over and above Meat countersued Don Lee Farms and a demo is scheduled for later on this calendar year. 

“We will show our assert that Over and above Meat misappropriated our trade secrets and techniques to manufacture the Over and above Burger and other solutions. We will show the breach of the special offer agreement and fraud assert dedicated by Mr. Nelson and other folks,” reported Donald Goodman, president of Don Lee Farms.

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