ISI appoints new UK Managing Director
GLEN Mathews, a senior executive with Hilton Seafood, has been appointed as Managing Director of Iceland Seafood UK, with effect from the end of February.
He has more than 30 years’ experience in the seafood processing sector. Mathews was previously in the position of Production Director of Hilton Seafood (formerly Icelandic Seachill) for 20 years, managing three factories with over 1,400 employees.
The move is part of a raft of changes being brought in for the Iceland Seafood International group’s UK operation. In November, ISI Group CEO Bjarni Armannsson (pictured) said a “combination of ramping up a renovated factory, dealing with challenging logistics from southeast
Asia and merging two factories in a period of COVID-19 issues and
Brexit” were creating difficulties for the UK division.
He announced changes would be made to strengthen the local management team of IS UK “to address the business complexities, the increased retail exposure and harvest the upcoming growth of the business”.
Reynir Jonsson, the Group CFO stepped in as an interim Managing Director and at the same time it was announced that Glen Mathews would be joining the business at end of February 2022. Iceland Seafood has now appointed Mathews as Managing Director of IS UK.