Tom Byrne, president of Titan Frozen Fruit, has been promoted to president and CEO, succeeding founding CEO Jon Larsen, who will now serve as the company’s chairman. Titan is a portfolio company of Vestar Capital Partners.
Byrne has a background in the fresh/frozen food manufacturing and packaging industries. Prior to joining Titan in 2023, he was a senior vice president and division manager at Golden West Packaging Group, was president of Growers Express and held senior executive roles at Sambrailo Packaging and Peninsula Packaging.
Titan recently opened a 136,500-sq.-ft. berry processing facility in Santa Maria, Calif., where it’s headquartered.
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.
