Lance Chambers, MBA

Lead Private Equity company producing custom-prepared foods for retail, club, and foodservice channels for 40+ years. Manage seven direct reports across functions overseeing two manufacturing facilities and 225+ employees. Products are sold nationally and distributed with several blue-chip customers.

Selected to lead middle market Honey Company with 140 employees within three manufacturing facilities. Sweet Harvest Foods (SHF) has a global procurement organization and sells private label products to retail, foodservice and ingredient sectors. Private equity backed. Direct P&L accountability. Customers include Walmart, Costco and major chains in the supercenter, mass merchandise, grocery, wholesale club, military, convenience, dollar, drug, food service and ingredient channels. Significantly increased profitability, margins, revenues, pricing, customer penetration, plant utilization, cost savings, employee/management morale and productivity. HIGHLIGHTS • Successfully integrated Sweet Harvest Foods acquisition into Natural American Foods; increasing company sales by over 30% and EBITDA by 50%. o Memorialized where companies were aligned and implemented best practices where process and culture were different. Developed consensus as a leadership team; agreed on key initiatives and core values to move the combined company forward. o Communicated new ethos to all employees in all locations through a series of roadshows to gain buy-in. • Reduced inventory value by 27% by optimizing global procurement, sourcing and aggressive cash management. o Increased volume with brokers based on market insight. Changed mix of honey inventory to better align with sales.

President and CEO of ~$100M protein pizza topping manufacturing company with 175 employees within one manufacturing facility. Restructured company for growth by rebuilding management team, right-sizing production organization, and instilling accountability to drive revenue and profit growth. HIGHLIGHTS · Increased sales volume by 40% and increased EBITDA by 148% in first two years. · Created new operational strategy to improve organizational focus on consistent product quality. · Maximized shareholder value by selling company to CTI Foods in February 2016.

Recruited to lead growing $350M+ consumer-driven cheese company with 650 employees and three manufacturing facilities. Company operates independently with U.S. Board of Directors as a fully-owned subsidiary. Brands include Boursin, Kaukauna, Laughing Cow, Merkts, Mini Babybel, Price’s, and WisPride. Restructured organization for growth by rebuilding management team, reducing unnecessary costs, and instilling accountability to consistently deliver financial commitments. HIGHLIGHTS • Increased sales by $200M through organic growth, quadrupled profits and improved cash flow by 172%. • Built new $100M cheese plant in Brookings, SD to support Mini Babybel growth. • Developed vision, mission and growth plan to turn around business. Business was on track to triple revenues in less than 10 years to $0.5B through organic growth while growing profits by 6 times. • Integrated $20M Boursin cheese acquisition and developed new product pipeline behind specialty cheese brand.

Led $300M specialty cheese subsidiary of Kraft Foods with one manufacturing plant and several co-manufacturers. Managed 35 cross-functional personnel and guided a brokered sales organization evenly split between retail specialty deli and foodservice. Brands included Athenos, DiGiorno, Hoffman’s, JL Kraft Specialty Gourmet, and Polly-O. HIGHLIGHTS · Accelerated growth by developing long-range plan to broaden focus from specialty cheese to specialty deli and driving new product innovation. · Secured new distribution with national accounts for Polly-O and Athenos brands.

Field Artillery Officer