Perdue Farms hires chief compliance officer
Maryland-based agribusiness, Perdue Farms, has made Catherine Muldoon its new chief compliance officer.
In this role, she will manage and oversee all aspects of how Perdue Farms’ businesses and brands comply with all federal, state, and local rules and regulations, and other external regulatory requirements, as well as internal policies. Muldoon will establish, implement, and administer a compliance structure to strengthen the company’s existing compliance efforts.
“We’re pleased to have someone with Catherine’s depth of experience to help bolster our current compliance practices,” said Herb Frerichs, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Perdue Farms. “The animal protein industry and broader agricultural sectors are becoming increasingly complex. Creating a centralized structure to oversee our companywide compliance program will ensure that we are not just complying with laws and regulations but exceeding them, while living up to our culture of trust and integrity and doing the right thing.”
Prior to this role, Muldoon served as long-time chief legal officer at BDP International, a global logistics transportation firm, where she created a comprehensive code of conduct and business ethics program. Most recently, she served as general counsel for Baldor Specialty Foods Inc, a US food procurement and distribution company.
She holds a Bachelor of Art’s degree in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a juris doctor from the School of Law at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, and an executive MA in business administration from the Lebow College of Business at Drexel University in Philadelphia.