{"id":643406,"date":"2013-02-21T18:23:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/?p=187691"},"modified":"2013-02-21T18:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:23:25","slug":"humphreys-joins-icicle-seafoods-as-president-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643406","title":{"rendered":"Humphreys Joins Icicle Seafoods as President, CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Icicle Seafoods<\/strong> has named Amy Humphreys to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Humphreys succeeds Dennis Guhlke, who has resigned.\u00a0Humphreys previously served as President of Delta Western<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n

Icicle Seafoods, Inc. (\u201cIcicle\u201d), one of the largest and most diversified seafood companies in North America, today announced the appointment of Amy Humphreys to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, succeeding Dennis Guhlke, who has resigned.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Ms. Humphreys served as President of Delta Western, Inc., a leading petroleum marketing and distribution company in Alaska.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to welcome Amy to Icicle,\u201d said Mitchell Presser, a founding Partner at Paine & Partners.\u00a0 \u201cAmy is a proven and results-oriented leader with extensive experience in Alaska, including as President of Delta Western, Inc., and 11 years of strategic operational experience at American Seafoods Group.\u00a0 Her operating experience and leadership qualities make her the right person to lead Icicle during its next phase of growth and development.\u00a0 Under Amy, we are confident that Icicle will continue to build upon its position as a leading producer, harvester and processor of a diverse portfolio of seafood products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Presser added, \u201cUnder Dennis\u2019s leadership as President and CEO, Icicle made considerable strategic advancements, including diversifying into aquaculture with the acquisition of American Gold Seafoods, and a number of substantial investments and acquisitions in our core Alaskan operation, including the recent acquisition of Snopac.\u00a0 Dennis has successfully led Icicle through a critical growth phase, and the entire company is grateful for his leadership and dedication and we wish him every success in his future pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on her appointment, Ms. Humphreys said, \u201cThis is an exciting opportunity.\u00a0 Icicle has a highly diversified business with strong customer relationships, long standing fishermen partnerships, and a deeply talented and devoted employee base.\u00a0 I believe the Company has many opportunities to continue its growth in both wild and farmed seafood product offerings.\u00a0 I look forward to working with Icicle\u2019s management team and employees to enhance the Company\u2019s market position and accelerate its growth and success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to her role at Delta Western, Ms. Humphreys was Chief Financial Officer of Northstar Utilities Group, the parent company of five fuel distribution operating companies and a subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources.\u00a0 Prior to that, Ms. Humphreys held various executive roles at American Seafoods Group, including Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasurer.<\/p>\n

About Icicle Seafoods, Inc.
\nIcicle Seafoods, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified seafood companies in North America. Icicle\u2019s core business is the primary processing of seafood including wild salmon, pollock, crab, halibut, cod, sablefish and herring in most major fisheries throughout Alaska, with both on-shore and floating processing facilities. Icicle also owns the largest United States owned and operated salmon farming company located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States as well as a joint venture in Chile producing farm raised salmon and trout. Icicle\u2019s products are sold throughout the world into a variety of customer channels including industrial, food service, wholesale and retail. Providing these markets with the highest quality seafood has been a founding principle of Icicle. Icicle is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and is owned by investment funds managed by Paine & Partners, LLC, a New York, Chicago and San Francisco based private equity fund.<\/p>\n

About Paine & Partners
\nPaine & Partners provides equity capital for management buyouts, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs.\u00a0 Paine & Partners engages exclusively in friendly transactions developed in cooperation with a company’s management, board of directors and shareholders.\u00a0 The firm currently makes investments through its $1.2 billion fund, Paine & Partners Capital Fund III, L. P. and related entities.<\/p>\n

Paine & Partners focuses on the food and agribusiness industry globally, and its principals, through a predecessor fund, have made successful strategic investments in Seminis, then the world’s leading global developer, producer and marketer of vegetable and fruit seeds; and Advanta Netherlands Holdings BV, at the time, the largest independent agronomic seed company in the world.\u00a0 Paine & Partners\u2019 most recent investments include Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC, a U.S.-based plant health and nutrition investment platform; Scanbio Marine, a leading Norwegian producer of fish protein concentrate, fish meal, and fish oil; Costa Group, Australia’s largest integrated grower, packer and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables; and Eurodrip, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of drip irrigation solutions for agricultural and landscaping applications.\u00a0The complex investment opportunities in today\u2019s rapidly evolving agribusiness environment play to the strengths of Paine & Partners\u2019 differentiated approach.\u00a0 For further information, see www.painepartners.com.<\/p>\n

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Icicle Seafoods has named Amy Humphreys to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Humphreys succeeds Dennis Guhlke, who has resigned.\u00a0Humphreys previously served as President of Delta Western. PRESS RELEASE Icicle Seafoods, Inc. (\u201cIcicle\u201d), one of the largest and most diversified seafood companies in North America, today announced the appointment of Amy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}