Ryan Mark Fernandes

Ryan Mark Fernandes is the Supply Chain Director at Sun Rich Fresh Foods.  His responsibilities encompass the management of logistics and procurement for all 5 sites servicing the North American market, in addition, to leading the charge on sourcing new product lines or business ventures for future growth.  Ryan was brought into the organization to formalize and raise the level of procurement to make it a strategic, centralized division of the organization.  Focus has been spend on building category plans for the different raw material spends with a vision to better incorporate risk mitigation strategies to avoid the swings that occur in the Global Agricultural Market. 

In addition, the procurement team has begun the move from transactional vendor relationships to strategic partnerships to find savings from innovation and efficiencies that will impact the bottom line over multiple years.  Looking forward, Sun Rich looks for the procurement team to further incorporate non-supply chain spend and to increase the level of engagement on new product ideation and implementation.

Prior to Sun Rich, Ryan held various leadership positions at Maple Leaf Foods and Anheuser-Busch Inbev Canada.