Gordon Carson Email & Phone Number

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Extensive expertise in all aspects of food and feed safety (Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations, US Food Safety Modernization Regulations, Global Safe Foods Initiative, HACCP, ISO 22000).
• In-depth knowledge of the food processing industry in Canada (vegetable oils, meat, and poultry, flour milling, bakery, frozen dough, fermentation).
• Experienced in leadership and strategic planning, budgeting, project management, marketing strategies, business re-engineering, and aligning action plans with corporate goals and objectives.
• Significant experience in managing highly educated and professional staff: recruiting, interviewing, training, mentoring, performance evaluations, human resource issues.
• Experienced in directing basic and applied research, product development, product quality control, and HACCP programs.
• Extensive knowledge of agri-food regulations and the associated industry issues in dealing with both domestic and international regulatory agencies on international market access issues, evolving food technologies.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• The Canola Council is the first industry association in Canada to encompass all links in the value chain. Together, we are building on the strengths of canola, Canada's greatest agricultural success story.Our members.
• Regulatory and industry resource to the Canola Council of Canada.
• Reconcile industry issues and marketing demands within domestic and international regulatory frameworks.
• Liaison with Canola Council executive to align and coordinate the regulatory affairs strategy with our members’ products and businesses.
• Collect and present key information of submission and consultation dossiers to achieve a winning strategy.
• Coordinate and lead regulatory activities of industry stakeholders.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• COPA is a federally incorporated non-profit industry association that represents the oilseed processors in Canada. Duties:Ongoing contract regulatory resource to the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA).
• Reconcile industry issues and marketing demands within the domestic and international regulatory framework.
• Liaison with Executive Director and Board members to align and coordinate the regulatory affairs strategy with our members’ products and businesses.
• Collect and present key information of submission and consultation dossiers to achieve a winning strategy.
• Coordinate and lead the activities of COPA’s industry committees (Food Feed Safety, Technical-Environmental, and Safety).
• Monitor the regulatory climate to maximize and obtain timely approvals from the regulating authorities.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• As a member of the Canadian food industry and Manitoba's largest poultry producer, Granny’s is a wholly-owned farmer cooperative that is dedicated to producing both high-quality food for our customers and opportunities.
• Successfully set up and established the company’s product development and research program embedded at the University of Manitoba’s Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals.
• Developed nutritionally enhanced new product platforms which allowed the company to rebrand and reposition itself into the emerging “Health and Wellness, Living Better” food categories.
• Established bioactive ingredient selection criteria, and delivery methodologies/processes to incorporate into unique new nutritionally enhanced poultry products.
• Provided leadership for new further processed product initiatives, product concept development, project plans, research protocols, establish lease and Intellectual Property contracts, directed company reporting and.
• Secured external funding opportunities to leverage organizational research investment.

Winnipeg, MB

• For 40 years the Canadian International Grains Institute has worked with the agricultural community worldwide in the promotion and utilization of Canadian field crops. The Institute is an industry leader in delivering.
• Directed all aspects of the Institute’s Baking, Milling, Pasta, Noodle and Steamed bread technology sections with a technical staff of 12, and an annual budget of $1 million+.
• Designed and customized educational programs to demonstrate the handling, food safety, marketing, processing and end-use technologies for Canadian cereal grains for both domestic and international customers.
• Extensive international travel to oversee the Canadian Wheat Board annual crop quality seminars and conduct new technology programs in overseas markets to support Canadian cereal crops.
• Developed technical sales information and materials for cereal grain market development.
• Initiated and directed applied research projects to investigate novel or extended end-uses of cereal crops and to monitor competing cereal crops from other countries.

Winnipeg, MB

• FOODTECH Canada is the first national collaborating network of Canadian food pilot processing and research facilities that offer you a single door to the ultimate resource for food innovation and commercialization..
• Served as a representative and founding board member for the newly incorporated Food Tech Canada.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Robin Hood Multifoods. a leading manufacturer and marketer of branded food products in Canada.
• Provided leadership and direction for corporate research and product development activities for baking and processing technologies, specialty grain products, functional food/nutraceuticals development.
• Successfully re-engineered and aligned new product initiatives with business opportunities and marketing strategies helping to turn flat growth retail and commercial flour business group into double-digit growth and.
• Initiated and directed the company’s new nutraceuticals and functional foods division.
• Spearheaded new technology initiatives and complex projects in the area of novel enzymes and ingredients to maximize production capacity and reduce cost.
• Liaison with government, industry associations and scientific community on regulatory affairs, food safety and emerging industry issues.

Scarborough, ON