Joey Burrows

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About Joey Burrows

High-performing leader with 7 years in Research and 14 years in the Pet Food industry, recognized for building high-performing teams, developing talent, and delivering measurable results. I thrive on collaboration, connecting with stakeholders across functions and regions to solve complex challenges and drive operational excellence. I excel at planning, executing, and driving complex projects across functions and regions, ensuring alignment, efficiency, and impact. Passionate about continuous learning and structured execution, I focus on creating sustainable impact—improving processes, enhancing quality and safety, and strengthening team performance. Relationship-building and people development are central to my approach, ensuring collaboration, alignment, engagement, and shared success. Outside of work, I stay active jogging, playing sports, walking my dogs, and hitting the gym. I’m also an avid reader of history and spy novels — always curious, always learning. Some of my other skillsets include: Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Quality Systems, Research, Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), GMP, GLP, Budgeting, Design Thinking and Data Analytics. I'm a strong R&D, Operations and Quality professional with an Advanced Honour's Degree in Project Management from Humber College, along with a Bachelors Degree in Agroecology with a major in Animal Science from the University of British Columbia and Guelph.