FoodChain ID, a food safety, testing, and sustainability organization, is announcing that its board of directors appointed Conor Kearney as CEO, effective immediately. Kearney succeeds Brad Riemenapp, who led FoodChain ID as CEO for more than five years before passing away in May after bravely battling cancer.
Kearney joined FoodChain ID in 2021 and most recently served as interim CEO during Riemenapp’s medical leave of absence. Prior to that, Kearney was FoodChain ID’s senior vice president of strategy and operations. Before joining FoodChain ID, he spent 11 years at Staples Inc. in numerous leadership roles — most recently managing a multi-billion product division — and 5 years at McKinsey & Co. Kearney earned his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Dartmouth College.