Considering the history of Jay Jandrain's family in meat processing, and his lifelong exposure to food production, it is not surprising that today, he leads one of the most iconic companies in the meat and poultry industry, Mount Olive, NC-based Butterball LLC. He's been chief executive officer and president of Butterball for almost two-and-a-half years - since December 2018 - but he's worked for the company for 19 years. As leader of the world's largest turkey processor and producer, Jandrain is committed to transforming the company and the turkey industry away from an over-reliance on selling only whole birds for Thanksgiving and maybe Christmas - and marketing turkey in various forms as a year-round protein product. But when Jandrain graduated from Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, with a degree in food science, he wasn't sure at all that he wanted to work in the meat and poultry industry.
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