Trident Seafoods board member Mike Quinn will transition to the company’s executive team as chief operating officer on Oct. 1 to lead operational strategy and execution, Trident’s CEO Joe Bundrant announced on Sept. 5.
Bundrant also announced the appointments of Jeff Welbourn as president of Trident USA and Kenji Nasu as president of Trident Alaska. Their appointments are also effective on Oct. 1.
Quinn, Welbourn and Nasu are the right leaders and the right changes that will position Trident for future growth, enabling us to continue our mission of responsibly sharing wild Alaska seafood with the world, Bundrant said. These appointments, said Bundrant, “are the next steps in Trident’s long-term vision to modernize operations and refocus our global commercial strategy.”
Quinn, who previously spent 25 years with Microsoft Corp., has served on Trident’s board of directors for the past five years. At Microsoft he had held leadership roles in sales, global manufacturing and supply chain operations, strategic planning and finance. Most recently,
Quinn was Microsoft’s vice president of sales-global account management, responsible for developing a multi-year global sales, marketing and product roadmap strategy. Before Microsoft, Quinn held multiple financial and leadership positions at biotechnology and healthcare companies in Washington, California, and Texas. He also had international experience includes expat assignments in Dublin, Ireland, and Shenzhen, China.
“Creating this new position and adding a proven leader like Mike is the next step in Trident’s evolution to a customer-centric, business unit-led strategy that will return value to all stakeholders,” Bundrant said. “More importantly, as Mike has shown from his work on Trident’s board of directors, he is deeply committed to this company, our people, and the Alaska seafood industry.”
Quinn expressed excitement about his upcoming post.
“Trident has been an industry leader for over 50 years, and despite the unprecedented challenges in the seafood sector, I see tremendous opportunities ahead,” he said.
In his 17 years with Trident, Welbourne served most recently as senior vice president for Alaska operations. He has extensive experience in the company’s commercial operations including establishing Trident’s China business channels, leading global species management and leading Trident’s Alaska operations through a significant transformation.
Nasu has been employed at Trident for more than 20 years, most recently as senior vice president of global species. Nasu joined Trident in 2004, when the company acquired Norquest Seafoods. Prior to Norquest, Nasu managed two Alaska-based salmon processing plants for a Japanese seafood firm.
Omar Sadeque, who jointed Trident in April of 2023, will continue to lead Trident International, Bundrant said.
