After serving for greater than 13 years, Mike Brown has retired from his function as president of the Nationwide Rooster Council (NCC), NCC Chairman Randy Day introduced at present.
“We thank Mike for his work in constructing a powerful basis at NCC and for his years of labor to promote the hen business in Washington, D.C.,” mentioned Day, who’s the retired former CEO of Perdue Farms. “We are actually turning our consideration to conducting a nationwide search to decide on the proper particular person to guide this group and this nice business into the following decade and past.”
Day additionally introduced that the NCC Government Committee has appointed Gary Jay Kushner to function interim President. Kushner, who not too long ago retired from the partnership of the regulation agency Hogan Lovells US LLP, served as NCC’s exterior normal counsel for greater than 40 years. Previous to that, Kushner served as in-house authorized counsel to a number of meals business commerce associations, together with as normal counsel to what was then the American Meat Institute. “Gary is aware of inside and outside the hen business and the problems that can form our future,” mentioned Day. “He’s a confirmed chief with a regular hand and the proper particular person to information NCC as we choose our subsequent president.”
Gary KushnerCourtesy Nationwide Rooster Council
“NCC has a unbelievable group that’s laser-focused on our mission of advocating on behalf of America’s hen producers. I look ahead to attending to work collectively as soon as extra whereas the group places in place its management for the long run,” mentioned Kushner.
