Mr. Conner, Executive Chairman of Bellisio Foods, Inc., has been with the Company since it was founded in 1990 leading the Company through family ownership and the $340MM, management/private-equity buyout in 2011. Doubling sales and profits in the next 5 years, resulted in the sale of the Company to Charoen Pokphand Foods of Bangkok, Thailand for $1.1 billion US in December of 2016. Mr. Conner now guides CP Foods' expansion objectives in North America.