Golden State Foods (GSF), a leading diversified supplier to the foodservice and retail industries is excited to announce the elevation of four of its senior executives based in GSF’s Irvine, California corporate headquarters to leadership positions. As part of its strategic restructuring, the company had promoted Brian Dick to President and Chief Executive Officer, while John Page has been designated as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. Further, Brad Tingey and Stephen Wetterau have been promoted as Corporate Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Senior Vice President, Strategy, Technology and Innovation respectively.
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Conrad Wetterau, Chairman of GSF’s Board of Directors stated – “These executive leadership changes will help Golden State Foods best support our customers and enable the continued growth of our company and our people, as we pursue strategic succession plans to optimize the deep expertise and proven capabilities of our senior leadership team.” “As four leaders who faithfully exemplify our company’s Creed and Values, Brian, John, Brad, and Stephen each bring to their expanded roles the essential qualities and business acumen that will positively impact the acceleration of GSF’s success and that of our customers in the future.”
Possessing 24 years of GSF experience, Brian Dick will continue to oversee all global operations and functions for the company, including food manufacturing, logistics and administrative groups. He will be delivering strategic leadership and vision for all worldwide activities to ensure the achievement of the organization’s multi-year strategic plans and annual plans, including the attainment of all customer satisfaction objectives and company’s financial and growth goals.
Brian Dick, who had joined Golden State Foods in 1999 has been serving as the Business Development Manager for GSF Egypt has been promoted several times into positions of increasing responsibility in business development, food manufacturing operations and corporate executive leadership roles, apart from his current position as President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also been serving on the U.S. Board of Governors for GS1, a non-profit information standards organization that facilitates industry collaboration to help improve supply chain visibility and efficiency using GS1 Standards. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dick earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and modern languages from Queen’s University, Belfast, North Ireland.
John Page, who has been a GSF associate for 19 years will continue to head the company’s Legal Department and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, including the GSF Foundation, as well as assume new responsibilities for Risk Management; Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory (FSQR); Environmental Health and Safety (EHS); and Sustainability. In his earlier role as Senior Corporate Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility and Chief Legal Officer since 2012, John had advised GSF in navigating corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures, which have enabled strategic growth and business diversification. John Page has been involved in guiding the advancement of the company’s environmental initiatives, diversity and fair treatment and community involvement and has been instrumental in GSF earning customer recognition in 2022 for its commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) with McDonald’s first-ever Global DE&I Award.
Page had started his career at GSF in 2004 as General Counsel and was promoted to Corporate Vice President and General Counsel in 2006. Possessing extensive experience of 13 years in providing legal counsel on matters involving licensing, international and domestic sales, supply chain management and strategic planning with companies such as Avaya Inc. (a spin-off of Lucent Technologies) and for clients such as Cendant, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, US JVC, National Westminster Bank and Barnes & Noble, he has also represented as an attorney for various legal firms in New Jersey and New York. Page graduated cum laude from Pace University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in History. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Brad Tingey, who has been serving GSF for 10 years has played a key role in building a team of very talented professionals with the technical skills and business acumen required for effectively guiding the financial affairs of GSF’s global portfolio of companies. In his new role, he will continue to lead all aspects of Finance, Accounting, Corporate Development, Tax and Treasury.
Earlier, Tingey had earned promotions in 2022 to Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and in 2019 to serve as GSF’s Corporate Vice President, Finance, after helping lead business analysis and development of various business models for GSF. Earlier in his career, he has held numerous managerial roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Southern California and New Jersey over the course of a decade. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree of accountancy.
A GSF associate since 2009, Stephen Wetterau will widen his scope of responsibility to include IT and Technology, in addition to his recently expanded role interfacing with the company’s global enterprises and partnering with the GSF Management Committee to help advance strategic priorities and support GSF’s strong culture of innovation. Wetterau had earlier served as Vice President, Logistics for Quality Custom Distribution, leveraging his strategy, structure and culture expertise to help GSF’s U.S. distribution centers successfully navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier in his GSF career, Wetterau has held roles of increasing responsibility that includes positions such as QCD’s Vice President, Logistics; Group Vice President, QCD West; Regional Operations Director, QCD West; Assistant General Manager for the company’s former City of Industry, California distribution facility; Strategic Procurement Manager – Centralized Leasing Corporation; and Continuous Improvement Analyst, QCD. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an emphasis in International Business from Chapman University in Orange, California.