[Beyond Meat in TB&P] Two veteran Tyson execs join Beyond Meat

Doug Ramsey and Bernie Adcock, who put in a combined 61 years at Tyson Foods, have left the company to take executive positions at Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat it is aggressively trying to scale its operations and commercialization in the U.S., European Union, and China.

Ramsey most recently led Tyson’s troubled chicken business as president of that business unit from 2017 until May when he took over the leadership of McDonald’s international business at Tyson Foods. He is joining Beyond Meat as its chief operating officer. Adcock logged about 30 years at Tyson Foods working his way up to integrated supply chain officer. He is taking a newly created role at Beyond Meat as the company’s first chief supply chain officer.