Gregory Brown
Executive Director at the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST)
- Role
- Executive Director at Global Dialogue On Seafood Traceability Gdst
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gregory Brown
A hard-working, honest, imaginative Food Industry Executive with extensive global operations, business development, strategic buying, category management, food safety & quality, certification and consulting experience, Greg Brown has been a self-motivated, highly accomplished, innovative contributor to a range of restaurant, food service, catering, public health, and non-profit organizations. Whether working in franchise operations, new concepts, privately owned groups or Fortune 500 companies, Greg has consistently been a high-integrity, conscientious “change-agent”, successfully adapting to worldwide business practices and diverse cultural environments, delivering value through profitable, sustainable supply chain solutions.
Experience
Executive Director
Global Dialogue On Seafood Traceability Gdst
Feb 2022 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Recruited to be the GDST’s inaugural Executive Director with immediate responsibility to set up and manage a nine-month organizational transition away from the stewardship of its two founding NGOs, into a five-year business plan for a totally new, fully independent, partnership/participation, standards, and advocacy organization. The GDST is an international business-to-business initiative established to enable digital seafood traceability in support of regulatory compliance, business efficiency/profitability, and corporate ESG responsibility across the seafood industry worldwide, by advancing standardization and adoption of interoperable traceability throughout global fishery and aquaculture supply chains. Responsibilities include evolving the location/management of the Dialogue/secretariat activity to achieve consensus within the global membership & engaged stakeholders on advancement of the standard and development of practical tools & support services to facilitate interoperable traceability implementation.
Education
Occidental College
Bachelors, Diplomacy & World Affairs
1977 — 1987
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