Ruiz Food Products Inc., the largest frozen Mexican food manufacturer in the United States, is announcing a series of executive leadership and board changes designed to position the company for its next growth period. The Ruiz Foods Board of Directors selected the company’s current chief operating officer, Kimberli Carroll, as president and chief executive officer. She will also serve on the board of directors. Current CEO Dan Antonelli will transition to the new position of executive board chair. Kim Ruiz Beck, a Ruiz Foods owner and current board chair, remains on the board as an owner-director. These changes are effective Jan. 21, 2024.
“As the Ruiz Foods board of directors considered the direction for our next CEO, the best candidate was right here on our leadership team,” said Kim Ruiz Beck. “Kim Carroll quite literally grew up inside the Ruiz Foods organization over two decades. She began her career in marketing, was a member of the team that developed and deployed the most successful new product in the company’s history, and has served as a leader implementing dynamic, transformative change throughout our entire supply, production and distribution chains.