Grimmway Produce Group

Grimmway Produce Group (GPG), Bakersfield, CA, announced that current president and chief executive Jeff Huckaby transitioned to a new role. Huckaby, who has been the company’s chief executive since 2016, will focus all of his time on GPG’s farming operation as chief agricultural officer.

A fourth-generation carrot farmer, Huckaby joined Grimmway in 1998 as a ranch manager. He went on to lead the company’s organic farming efforts, expanding the business from a few hundred acres into one of the largest organic farming operations in the country, spanning more than 50,000 acres. Named Grimmway’s executive vice president in 2006 and president in 2016, Huckaby has guided Grimmway through periods of rapid growth and major change, shaping the company into today’s Grimmway Produce Group.

Ken Silveira joins Grimmway Produce Group as chief executive, with nearly 40 years of leadership experience in the fresh produce industry across grower-shippers, value-added companies, and industry organizations. Most recently, he served as president of Bengard Ranch. He previously served as chief executive of The VPS Companies, president of Mastronardi Produce-West, and spent nearly two decades with Tanimura & Antle.