Darling Ingredients announces leadership changes

Darling Ingredients (DAR) EVP and CFO Brad Phillips will retire from the company after 36 years, effective June 15, 2025. Robert Day, currently EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, will assume the role of EVP and CFO effective on the day after the company files its 2024 Form 10-K, which is expected to occur on Feb. 25, 2025; after which, Phillips will remain employed until his retirement date to assist Day in his transition. Sandra Dudley, currently EVP, Renewables and U.S. Specialty Operations, will succeed Day as Chief Strategy Officer, under the new title of EVP, Renewables and Chief Strategy Officer. Carlos Paz will join the company as EVP, Global Risk Management, Ingredients. Day joined Darling Ingredients in August 2023 as Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to joining the company, he served as a partner at Ascendant Partners. From 2015 to 2022, Day was with Ceres Global Ag. Corp., where he served as CEO from 2016 to 2022. Prior to that, he was Managing Director Asia at ED&F Man; and he held a variety of executive and senior management roles with Cargill. Dudley joined Darling Ingredients in 2015 and has served as EVP, Renewables and U.S. Specialty Operations since October 2021. Prior to joining Darling Ingredients, from 1998 to 2004, she worked at ConAgra Foods. Paz joins Darling Ingredients from Ceres Global, where he served as President and CCEO from August 2022 until December 2024. Prior to joining Ceres, he spent over 20 years at Cargill.