C.H. Guenther & Son, maker of branded and private-label food products, on Oct. 23 announced Rod Hepponstall as its CEO, effective Nov. 6. He replaces John Buckles.
Hepponstall leaves High Liner Foods, a global seafood company with more than $1 billion in revenues, where he was president/CEO and a member of the board of directors. Today’s announcement said he led High Liner through multiple transformation initiatives, streamlined its global supply chain to better position the company for growth and integrated people, processes and technology across the firm resulting in record adjusted EBITDA in his final full fiscal year.
Earlier, he held senior foodservice and retail positions at Lamb Weston, Conagra Brands, Grupo Bimbo and Maple Leaf Foods.
C.H. Guenther & Son, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is owned by Pritzker Private Capital along with management and co-investors. CHG has more than 4,600 employees in 29 food manufacturing locations in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, and in its corporate office in San Antonio, Texas.
