Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A.-based Peter Pan Seafood Company announced it has hired two new employees for positions created due to the company’s recent growth.
The company announced Michael Mussell will join Peter Pan as the new executive vice president of project, ingredients, and canning, and Matt Frazier has joined the company as a new regional sales manager.
“Both Michael and Matt are exceptionally talented,” Peter Pan Seafood Owner and Chief Growth Officer Rodger May said. “We have significantly moved away from a commodity company to a value-added company. As we continue to work with our customers to meet their exact needs, including developing more value-added products, both Michael and Matt will play a key role in helping us deliver the high-quality Alaska products our customers are looking for.”
Mussell has worked in the seafood industry for 30 years, and in the past served as the chief operating officer at Austevoll Seafoods/Austral Group, as lead of marine platforms at 3D Corporate Solutions, and as chief commercial officer of ingredients for Nutrimar.
“Peter Pan is undergoing a transformation,” Mussell said in a release. “I am enthusiastic that I can bring my experience to help create more value from underutilized co-products while furthering our environmental commitment to being good corporate citizens and create shareholder value at the same time.”
Frazier has 15 years of experience in the seafood industry, and has worked with a number of different seafood companies and spent a decade working on commercial fishing boats.
“Part of my role will be working closely with the end customers to develop the products they want and need,” Frazier said. “We’re really focused on relationships and that includes combining forces with the fleet to harvest wild Alaska seafood sustainably and responsibly and then deliver the kinds of value-added products the end customer is looking for.”
Photos courtesy of Peter Pan Seafood Company
