Manufacturing | Food & Beverage
President and CEO
Schreiber Foods | Green Bay
Ron Dunford was named president and chief executive officer of Schreiber Foods in 2019. The employee-owned, Green Bay-based dairy company produces cheese, cream cheese, yogurt and other products for fast-food restaurants, grocery stores and wholesalers. It reports annual sales of more than $5 billion, distributing its products from plants in the U.S., Germany, Mexico, India and Brazil. Ranking among Forbes’ top 100 largest private companies nationally, Schreiber has more than 9,000 employees.
Dunford has been with the company since 1996. He was named a vice president in 2000, senior vice president in 2002, president and chief operating officer of food service chain sales in 2003, president and COO of global operations in 2006, and president of Schreiber U.S. in 2014.
Dunford has been on Schreiber’s board of directors since 2003. He has also served on the boards of Mentors International, the Innovation Center for U.S Dairy, the International Dairy Foods Association and Utah State University Center for Entrepreneurship. He is also past chairman of the National Cheese Institute.
He is currently a co-chair of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s $20 million “Ignite the Future” campaign, alongside Packers president Mark Murphy and other Green Bay business leaders.
Education: Bachelor’s, Utah State University