Maple Leaf Foods Inc. announced changes to its Senior Leadership Team as it embarks on its next chapter of value creation. The changes come as part of the leadership transition plan announced earlier this year as Curtis Frank, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, prepares to step into the role of President and Chief Executive Officer by the spring of 2023, and Michael McCain begins to step back from his CEO role to focus on his role as Executive Chair. Casey Richards, current Senior Vice President of Marketing, is promoted to the newly created role of President and Chief Growth Officer.

In this new role, Casey will assume accountability of our value-added prepared meats and poultry businesses under one combined organizational unit to drive profitable growth through clear strategic alignment and agile decision making. Under Casey's leadership, we are also establishing a dedicated growth-focused center of excellence called Accelerate. Accelerate will help Maple Leaf unlock new opportunities for growth by bringing together our world-class brand building expertise, data-driven insights and analytics, innovation and new technologies, and e-commerce and digital experience.  Iain Stewart, current Senior Vice President of Operations & Supply Chain, is promoted to the newly created role of Chief Supply Chain Officer. Under Iain's leadership, the Company will further refine its manufacturing strategy to leverage its expertise in operations, purchasing, supply chain and engineering into a sustainable competitive advantage.

Iain will expand Maple Leaf Foods' Operational Excellence System (OES) Center of Excellence, ensuring efficiencies and sustainability practices are consistently embedded throughout our operations, and optimizing operations and profitability within the pork complex. Adam Grogan, currently President of Maple Leaf Foods' subsidiary, Greenleaf Foods, SPC, is appointed to the role of President, Alternative Protein. Adam will continue to lead the Greenleaf business, and will add responsibility for commercializing and broadening the Company's innovation and investment strategy in meat protein alternatives, all as part of the Company's future-oriented vision to deliver long-term financial and sustainability performance.

Jumoke Fagbemi, will join Maple Leaf Foods in January as its new Senior Vice President, People. Jumoke is a well-respected human resources professional with more than 20 years of experience and a proven record of successfully implementing cost-effective, value-driven people strategies grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion principles. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, Jumoke will play an integral role in leading the Company's human resources team and our strategic people initiatives.   Patrick Lutfy, current Vice President of Marketing, is promoted to the role of Senior Vice President of Marketing, replacing Casey Richards.