JBS USA, the worldwide leader in meat and poultry-based food solutions and a majority shareholder in Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, named Lance Kotschwar head of ethics and compliance for the company’s operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He will join the JBS USA leadership team, reporting directly to JBS USA President and CEO, Andre Nogueira.
Kotschwar will oversee the company’s global compliance policies and programs, including the code of conduct, whistleblower hotline, global anti-corruption policies, antitrust and competition law, trade compliance and conflict of interest policies, ensuring that JBS USA and Pilgrim’s operations around the world implement and maintain the highest ethical standards. An experienced regulatory and compliance professional, he spent nearly a decade in the agriculture industry implementing and managing compliance programs and regulatory issues, on top of his nearly two decades of Federal legislative and regulatory experience with USDA and both bodies of Congress.