Keith Goerl

About Keith Goerl

Motivated and respected leader with extensive experience meat and food processing for foodservice, retail and B2B applications. Core competencies in leading people, communication, and commercialization. Experience in leading change and establishing priorities in dynamic matrix organizations to deliver business results. Strengths include innovation, formulation, processing, reverse-engineering, cost reductions, and product improvements from ideation to commercialization.

Experience

1. Channel Lead, Industrial Sales & Co-manufacturing

   Miniat

   Jan 2026 — Present · South Holland, IL, US

   Responsible for selling premium sous vide cooked meat to industrial clients and leading co-manufacturing opportunities in the sous vide cooked meat category.

Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Animal Science - Meat Processing

  1989 — 1992

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Master of Science (M.S.), Animal Sciences - Meat Processing

  1992 — 1994

Skills

• Continuous Improvement
• Product Development
• Product Innovation
• Quality System
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Frozen Food
• Cpg Industry
• Process Simulation
• Meat Processing
• Meat
• Leadership
• Portfolio Management
• Commercialization
• Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Ingredients
• Process Improvement
• Sap Implementation
• Agile Project Management
• Food Processing
• Innovation
• Sap
• Change Management
• Consumer Products
• Recipes
• Strategic Planning
• R&D
• Food
• Research Development
• Food Manufacturing
• Food Industry
• Food Technology
• Management
• Food Science