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Bryan D. Farnsworth is vice president of quality management for Hormel Foods and is responsible for overseeing company quality, plant regulatory and food safety activities. In this role, Farnsworth spearheads the company’s continuous improvement initiatives, including Quality Improvement Process and Six Sigma.
With 26 years of experience at Hormel Foods, Farnsworth has been involved in all aspects of quality control within the company and has developed a keen vision for the role of quality management within the organization. He began his career in 1981 as a quality control trainee in Fremont, Neb. where he was quickly promoted to quality control engineer. Over the next ten years of his career, Farnsworth held various quality and process control positions at several of the company’s locations, including Austin, Minn. and Beloit, Wis. In 1991, he became director of quality control for Jennie-O Foods in Willmar, Minn. He stayed with Jennie-O Foods for five years, where he also held plant management positions at the Willmar and Montevideo, Minn. locations. In 1996, Farnsworth was named director of quality management for Hormel Foods and in 2005 he was promoted to vice president of quality management.
Farnsworth graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor of science degree in manufacturing administration and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Executive Program.
Farnsworth is very active with the American Meat Institute (AMI), serving as a member and former chairman of the AMI Inspection Committee, which addresses issues involving federal inspection of livestock, poultry and processed meat products. He is an adviser member of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Foundation Board. Farnsworth is also a member of the Food Processors Association, where he sits on the Meat and Poultry Products Committee and is a member of the American Society for Quality. He is also on the board of directors for the American Red Cross. | 