November 2022 Meeting

Speaker

Sean Leighton
Global Vice President of Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory
Cargill

Overview: We are in a new era of food safety. Join us on November 29th to network and learn from Sean Leighton on food safety leadership strategies. Building a corporate food safety culture is central to elevating productivity, reducing turnover, and fostering better teamwork. To be successful in corporate food safety, you need to understand the effects of business on food safety and of food safety on business.

Sean Leighton is Cargill’s Global Vice President of Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory. With a career spanning more than 15 years in the food and beverage industry, Sean has intimate knowledge of the science and standards that make food safe, and the strategies to ensure the quality of supply chains that feed our world.

Before joining Cargill in 2017, Sean served as Vice President of Quality Assurance, Safety, and Environmental Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company, where he spent 12 years in roles of increasing responsibility. He also worked at Land O’ Lakes Incorporated.

Sean’s passion for food safety and quality extends beyond Cargill. He is the incoming president for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and sits on the advisory board of many organizations including, but not limited to IAFP’s Journal of Food Protection, The Center for Food Safety (UGA), GMA’s Science & Education Foundation and the Food Fraud Think Tank (MSU).

In these leadership roles, and in his daily work at Cargill, Sean is leading cutting edge work to nourish our world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

Sean holds a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,a master of science degree in food science from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from Emory University.