Luohe, China - January 25, 2016, Luohe, China - WH Group Limited, a pork company, announced that Kenneth Marc Sullivan and Mu You have been appointed as executive directors.
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Mr. Sullivan served as president and chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, since December 2015 and as a director of Smithfield since January 2016.
Mr. Sullivan has served in various other positions with Smithfield since joining Smithfield in 2003, including vice president of internal audit from 2003 to 2007, vice president and chief accounting officer from 2007 to 2010, vice president of finance and chief accounting officer from 2010 to 2013, vice president and CFO from 2013 to March 2015, executive vice president and CFO from March 2015 to October 2015 and executive vice president and COO from October 2015 to December 2015.
Prior to joining Smithfield, Mr. Sullivan spent 12 years at various large accounting and consulting firms.
Mr. Sullivan has been a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Virginia, the U.S. since April 1993. He obtained his bachelor of science degree from the School of Business of the Virginia Commonwealth University in August 1988.
Mr. You has served in various positions within the Group. He has served as director and president of Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development, an indirect non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, since August 2015.
Previously, Mr. You served as vice president and general manager of the meat products division of Shuanghui Development from November 2014 to August 2015. He also served as the general manager of Henan Luohe Shuanghui Industry Group, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, from July 2007 to November 2014 and has been appointed as a director of Shuanghui Group since January 2014.
In addition, Mr. You served as the manager of the Hangzhou branch of Shuanghui Group Sales Company from March 2002 to February 2003, the head of sales department of Shuanghui Group Sales Company from February 2003 to June 2004, the general manager from June 2004 to October 2004, the general manager of the meat products division from October 2004 to July 2007 and the director of Shuanghui Development from November 2007 to August 2012.
Mr. You graduated from Henan Business College majoring in planning and statistics in July 1991, and subsequently obtained the completion certificate for the master of business administration program of the Graduate School of Renmin University in March 2005. ■