Bill Dubose

Bill joined D. L. Newslow & Associates, Inc., as Vice President in June 2008. Bill has many years of experience in business and project management, quality assurance, management systems (ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, ISO 9000), food safety, government compliance and GMP/HACCP prerequisite compliance. Bill’s expertise includes development and implementation of quality and food safety based systems. Bill is also an approved HACCP instructor with special emphasis on the juice industry. Bill’s strengths include a strong foundation for organization and business management. Bill also has a strong understanding and commitment to effective management system development, understanding regulatory requirements and dealing with the regulatory and facility evaluations for compliance.

Bill enjoys applying his technical and operations background into a variety of processes and systems. His background has encompassed many different industries. Bill’s focus has not only been in the beverage industry, but also with the vast suppliers of raw materials, ingredients and various other suppliers to this industry. Bill has over twenty five years of team driven process management/root cause skills and knowledge of the food and beverage industry. His career experiences span quality assurance, plant management, division QA management, citrus/juice processing, juice packaging, quality systems, teams (internal and customer), technical management of citrus essential oils, citrus and apple essential oils/flavors processing, supply chain, product management and sales.

Bill’s experience includes 13 years at Kerry (SunPure) Ingredients and Flavors where he was on the “ground floor” of a start-up company that purchased and processed citrus and essential oils. He was a key member in developing a state of the art essential oil manufacturing site, building sales from $0 to $35M in only seven years. The business evolved into a joint venture (Cargill CitroPure) that led to a successful buyout (Kerry). At Kerry (SunPure), Bill led the development of the technical and operations teams, supply chain of citrus essential oils/by-products, toll manufacturing, selective sales accounts, and product management of grapefruit oils and terpene by-products. Bill has always had a passion for safety and customer service. Through his leadership of multiple teams, they achieved 1 million man-hours of no lost workday injuries in seven years. In addition, he initiated a root cause customer service measurement system that increased on-time sales delivery by 70%. This has remained in-force with the on-time customer delivery system currently exceeding 95%. Bill’s career also included managing eight U.S. sites, two international locations, and multiple contract packers as the Citrus & Beverage Operations QA Manager for Coca-Cola Foods. Responsibilities also included citrus processing (Florida and Brazil), all forms of juice packaging, and their quality systems. Bill led an aseptic juice contract packaging start-up, developed technical support of the California citrus industry supply chain, and managed a citrus processing plant in Florida. Bill is an active member in the International Association of Food Technology (IFT).

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