Plant-based foods company Daiya Foods announced the appointment of finance veteran Melissa Lee to the position of Chief Financial Officer for the company. As a member of the Daiya Senior Leadership Team, Lee will report directly to Michael Watt and she will be responsible for leading the Finance and IT Teams for Daiya, according to a press release.
Prior to her time in the US, Lee held progressively senior finance roles in merchandising, supply chain, store operations, and e-commerce over her 10 years with Walmart Canada. Her early finance career started at Unilever Canada, where she held a range of business partnering and FP&A roles from 2002 – 2010.
“The appointment of Melissa Lee to the position of Chief Financial Officer comes at an exciting time for Daiya; we have just opened our new state of the art plant-based food manufacturing and innovation facility, the largest and first of its kind in North America,” Michael Watt, CEO of Daiya Foods said. “I look forward to working closely with Melissa as we accelerate Daiya’s leadership position in the plant-based movement.”