Kevin Storms career includes 35 years of consumer goods, food processing, and business-to-business experience. Kevin’s senior roles have encompassed full accountability for business unit leadership and financial performance across three continents and ten manufacturing plants.
For 11 years, Kevin served with the J.R. Simplot Company, a $6 billion privately-held food processor, marketer, and agribusiness. His domestic roles included Divisional VP & GM, Group Senior VP & GM, and Group President of a $1 billion + business unit. Most recently, Kevin was Corporate Senior VP of International Business Development with responsibilities of $200 million+ subsidiaries and joint ventures in China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
During his time with the J.R. Simplot Company, Kevin also developed new joint ventures, alliances, acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, and plant expansions across disparate geographies and cultures. He served on joint venture boards in China, India, Mexico, and the U.S. for which sales ranged from $10 to $120 million.
Prior to joining Simplot, Kevin was Executive Vice President and COO of the Case Swayne Company, a private equity-owned processor and marketer of products for the Quick Serve Restaurant industry. Kevin also spent 15 years with the J.J. Heinz Company in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Boise, Idaho in a progression of consumer and business-to-business marketing and general management roles. He led the Heinz Ore-Ida Foodservice Division for four years until its sale in 1997.
Kevin began his business career in consumer marketing with the Procter & Gamble Company following four years of service as an officer in the U.S Army. Kevin holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from Arizona State University. Kevin has also served on several public service boards, including nine years on the board of the Idaho Foodbank.