Just before Christmas, Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, a Wisconsin cheese-manufacturing cooperative, promoted Kevin Pieh from chief financial officer and interim CEO to CEO.
Pieh has been with Ellsworth Creamery, a cooperative of 180 dairy farmer families in Wisconsin, since 2022. He had been serving as interim CEO since last September, when the company said “Paul Bauer is no longer employed as CEO.”
Prior to joining Ellsworth Creamery, Pieh held leadership positions with Land O’Lakes in the Dairy Foods, Corporate Finance and Truterra divisions. Pieh also has experience in the financial services industry.
Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.
