Susan Walters-Flood

Susan, like the rest of the leadership, is an energetic, disciplined and innovative entrepreneur. Given Susan’s deep experience in the food manufacturing and finance industry, her focus is on the building blocks of TPHC: brand performance/customer value, production partner network/supply chain, shared services and business and financial performance. The social missions of TPHC energize Susan’s passion to take TPHC to the next level: “It is more than just moving more product… it is about the nutrition, sustainability and the people that TPHC serves!”

Prior to joining TPHC, Susan was the President of Nu-World Foods, a strategic leader in specialty food ingredients and contract manufacturing. This was a pioneering venture for 20 years, taking an unknown company and unique product offerings (Ancient Grains ingredients) and services into the marketplace. Ultimately, Nu-World grew into a multimillion-dollar enterprise that served niche brands like Enjoy Life Foods and mega brands such as Chobani, Kellogg, Conagra and more. The keys to success at Nu-World were operational/product excellence, product innovation and quality, supply chain partnering, financial focus, customer experience and passionate people. The journey, with all of it twists and turns, honed Susan’s skills and her resolve to build a strong and successful company winning with proprietary products and processing value, customer relationships and great people!

Susan’s success at Nu-World was fostered by her business acumen and business performance improvement skills developed throughout her career at Arthur Andersen. From 1991 thru 2001 Susan worked with companies large and small to define new business strategies, design new organizations (including outsourcing and shared services), implement improved systems, processes and metrics, as well as engage and train their teams to change and improve their financial business performance. Susan loved her time as a management consultant. Helping organizations be the best that they can be is something that Susan did with Arthur Andersen and has continued to do throughout her career.

Susan’s passion for building business is innate. She began to shape her craft while attending Business School at Indiana University and also gaining her Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management. She enjoys consulting but loves business building, with all of the challenges and opportunities, the fun is propelling a strong and successful organization forward.