Fareed Khan

Fareed Khan is a senior executive with extensive experience across various industries, leading corporate finance functions, IPO and business transformations, and providing strategic and operational leadership over a 30-year career.

Raised in Canada and now based in the U.S., Mr. Khan brings extensive food industry experience through senior leadership roles at Kellogg Company, where as global CFO he drove transformational expansion, and US Foods, where, in 2016, he was instrumental in taking the company public, raising over $1.1 billion in the largest IPO of the year.

Mr. Khan has well over a decade of experience as Chief Financial Officer in large publicly traded multi-business companies, and PE-backed pre-IPO businesses with high growth and disruptive business models. He has deep experience in building strong finance fundamentals, including team building, process improvement and controls disciplines. Mr. Khan has driven transformational growth in new platforms, emerging global markets, and through M&A. He has led complex multi-year efficiency initiatives and brings deep experience in capital markets, having taken two companies public and setting the groundwork for a third.

Mr. Khan has extensive operational leadership and strategy experience established earlier in his career. This includes leading USG’s $4 billion revenue U.S. business as President and CEO, and over 5 years of strategy consulting experience at McKinsey & Company.

Fareed earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Carlton University. He is a Member of Wake Forest University’s Board of Visitors and Engineering Advisory Board and previously served on the board of Foundation Building Materials.

Mr. Khan is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Imperial Dade, a leading North American distributor of foodservice packaging supplies, industrial products, and janitorial supplies.