Marcelo Bellarde

Sr Director of Plant Operations @Ventura Coastal, Llc

Leading performance transformation of the multi-plant citrus processing operation. Developed a skilled and experienced leadership team and focused them on the development and execution of strategic plans to drive business growth. Achieved and are sustaining world-class safety performance (3MM hours with 0 LTA), delivering year-over-year improvement in costs and yields, have successfully executed $100MM+ in capital projects including automation, new processes, processing, and storage expansion, and implemented performance management tools and systems that drive employee engagement, work standardization, and PDCA thinking