Jan Tharp Email Address

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer │ Relationship Development │ Global Operations

Everyone loves Bumble Bee tuna. After all, America has enjoyed the great taste of our premium seafood products for more than 100 years. Yum!

- JTharp143@gmail.com - Creating outstanding value for both shareholders and consumers in highly competitive consumer product markets is my passion. Growing the bottom line by improving a company’s performance, efficiencies and operational excellence is my specialty. Leveraging my deep business background acquired working in market leaders Bumble Bee Seafoods, StarKist Foods, Cliffstar and HJ Heinz with my open door, transparent management style, I deliver outstanding profitability and efficiency by building cultures of empowerment, collaboration, continuous improvement, and respect. A high energy leader, I inspire an organization to cultivate the profitable business partnerships founded on trust. Notables:MARKET SHARE AND REVENUE GROWTHDeveloped 60+ new grower contracts for Cliffstar Corporation (now Cott Beverage) across the US to support several lines of organic and conventional fruit juice products. Reduced product costs by 20%, increased market share by 10%+, and generated new organic business revenue of $83M+.TURNAROUNDSLed a StarKist Food Supply Chain turnaround – executing supply chain strategies that reduced labor costs by $6M, saved $6.5M in operations consolidation, and reduced debt by $28M. Completed project within 12 months.OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENTAnalyzed, developed and executed consolidation plan impacting Bumble Bee Seafoods’ Global Operations. Reduced eight factories to five – project saving significant operational costs and reducing company debt.PRODUCTIVITY AND SAFETY ENHANCEMENTLaunched Bumble Bee Workforce Engagement Program, 'Drive to Zero,' that saved in labor costs, increased efficiencies and improved safety performance through a reduction in Loss Time Incident Rate [LTIR].GLOBAL SOURCINGOpened China as a new source of supply for Cliffstar Corporation – reducing product costs by 30%+ and enabled increase of top- and bottom-line growth EBITDA by 15% over five years. CLIFFSTAR grew from $200M to $825M in seven years.