Silver Bay COO leaves to take up role at Peter Pan
THE chief operating officer of Alaska salmon processor Silver Bay Seafoods has left the group for the Peter Pan Seafood Company, which recently changed hands.
Silver Bay executive Branson Spiers, formerly general manager of the company’s California operations, will take over as interim COO in the wake of Hickman’s departure.
At the end of 2020, Tokyo-based Maruha Nichiro sold Peter Pan to an investment group including Alaska-based private equity group McKinley Capital Management, RRG Global Partners
Fund and Rodger May, the current owner of the Northwest Fish Company.
The new vertically integrated Peter Pan Seafood Company is composed of Peter Pan Seafood’s assets and the value-added sales channels of Northwest Fish. Peter Pan is one of Alaska’s oldest salmon processing companies.