Tom Bailey
Operations Executive | Leading Operations for Growth
- Role
- Chief Operating Officer at Henry Broch Foods
- Location
- Waukegan, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Bailey
Food Industry Operations Executive with broad, multi-plant/multi-discipline leadership experience in food processing & packaging, both ingredients & flavors, as well as RTD & RTE retail production. Impactful people leader developing future leaders and teams with a history of delivering outstanding results: data-driven, focused on growth, and elevating both performance and people. Broad technical leadership experience including: large scale sterile fermentation, enzyme modification, kettle cooking, spray drying, dairy culturing, liquid flavor compounding, reaction flavors, dry blending, cryogenic freezing, extrusion, dry & wet enrobing, UF/RO, MAP, hot & cold fill, Tetra Pak aseptic processing & packaging, retort, VFFS, blow molding, pick & place, and biological waste water treatment. Experienced in acquisition, divestiture, integration, turnaround, and optimization. Union and non-union leadership. Skilled in Union Avoidance. Functional management of and expertise in Quality, Food Safety & Technical Services, Supply Chain, Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Operations.
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Jan 2026 — Present · Waukegan, IL, US
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS, Chemical Engineering
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
Skills
- Gmp
- Quality System
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Management
- Business Process Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Dairy
- Six Sigma
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (Haccp)
- Process Engineering
- Flavors
- Continuous Improvement
- Food Processing
- Dairy Products
- Haccp
- 5s
- Manufacturing
- Food Industry
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Packaging
- Ingredients
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