Sweet Harvest Foods
Prashanth Prabhakar has an extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Prashanth is currently the Chief Operations Officer at Sweet Harvest Foods, where they have been working since 2020. Prior to that, they held positions such as Senior Vice President Operations and Quality, and Vice President of Operations and Food Safety & Quality at the same company.
Before joining Sweet Harvest Foods, Prashanth worked at Johnson & Johnson starting in 2019. Prashanth served as a Senior Manager in Operations and Manufacturing at NeuWave Medical, as well as a Senior Manager in Global Operational Excellence. Prashanth was responsible for driving strategic business and operation capacity planning and leading various supply chain and operations project management activities.
Prashanth also has experience in the food industry, having worked as the Senior Director of Corporate Quality at Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP from 2015 to 2018.
In addition, Prashanth has held positions at Medtronic, Cardiac Science, GE Healthcare, Rochester Medical, and Mayo Clinic, where they gained expertise in quality management, regulatory compliance, and operations.
Overall, Prashanth Prabhakar has a diverse background in operations and quality management, with experience in the food and medical device industries.
Prashanth Prabhakar obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University. In addition to their degree, Prashanth also holds certifications in CQA and CQM/OE from ASQ - World Headquarters. The specific dates of obtaining these certifications are not provided.
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Sweet Harvest Foods
Sweet Harvest Foods is dedicated to giving back to the communities in which we live and work. In addition to participating in the Minnesota Keystone Initiative to give back a minimum of 2 percent of profits each year, we also allocate time our employees can use to volunteer during business hours. Recent employee efforts include organizing a groupto help with local flooding disaster relief.Current efforts include:Raising money, matching funds, contributing time and donating items for the annual Toys for Tots driveFinancial donations to local educational foundationsFinancial assistance to people in need within our local communitiesDonations for in-class educational tools such as a Smart Board and other technologies that are beyond the reach of some classroom budgetsVolunteer teaching in classrooms that brings food production and nutrition knowledge to elementary studentsCharitable giving to programs supporting children with special needs, including Special Olympics, National Children's Cancer Society, National Down's Syndrome Society, Local Rotary Foundations, Smile Train, American Association of the Deaf and Blind, Feed My Starving Children and Opportunity PartnersFinancial support towards training and work programs that assist adults with special needsEmployees Our culture of teamwork and our profit-sharing structure reinforce our commitment to individual employees. As a result, our employees develop the knowledge, skills and abilities required to produce high-quality products.Current efforts include:Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)Safe Quality Food (SQF)Occupational safetyCross-trainingWeekly training sessionsProfessional and career development, supported by an educational assistance policy