Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 3/30/17


Butterball announced it has promoted Dean Lisenby to vice president of supply chain and continuous improvement and Neal Walsh to vice president of strategic business initiatives and purchasing.

Dean Lisenby
Lisenby will continue to oversee supply chain management, in addition to his new responsibility for directing the company’s logistics group, ensuring seamless processing, warehousing and customer distribution.

As the director of supply and demand planning at Butterball, Lisenby led several successful supply chain planning software implementations and major company-wide developments and advancements, including a large distribution center and a case-ready plant. Prior to joining Butterball in 2008, Lisenby spent 10 years at Perdue Farms as director of supply planning.

Neal Walsh
As vice president of strategic business initiatives and purchasing, Walsh will be responsible for collaborative efforts to identify the most profitable integrated value of the Butterball meat supply. Walsh will continue to oversee corporate purchasing, in addition to co-pack procurement and management. He will also guide Butterball’s processing facilities’ protein utilization, as the company continues efforts to widen its competitive advantage through best-in-class processes and consistency.

Prior to joining Butterball, Walsh spent 19 years at Perdue Farms, rising through the ranks from plant operations to corporate purchasing manager. He joined Butterball in 2007, where he developed and implemented a corporate purchasing policy and drove organizational change by combining the purchasing functions of Carolina Turkeys and Butterball into one business unit.