Eric Chutorash

Eric Chutorash is the Chief Executive Officer of SEMO Milling LLC, where they provide strategic direction and lead daily operations to ensure that both short-term and long-term financial and business objectives are met in alignment with the organization’s vision and values. From 2023 to 2025 they served as Chief Executive Officer of Fufeng USA, and previously as Chief Operating Officer, where they established the U.S. entity’s governance, tax structuring, fiscal, banking, compliance, human resources, and commercial functions, and oversaw site selection, M&A, incentives negotiation, engineering design, procurement, and the eventual construction of the entity’s new manufacturing plant. Earlier in their career at Ingredion Incorporated (2000–2001), they held multiple roles including Vice President, Industrial and Biomaterial Solutions, and Director, Strategic Business Development. They are pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Economics at Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance at DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.