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Al Jansen, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Butterball, LLC, is responsible for sales in the food service, retail, commodity and export channels as well as product research and development, customer service, and integrated business strategy.

A graduate from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and an MBA from the University of Baltimore, Jansen brings more than 20 years of experience in the food industry. Prior to his position at Butterball, Jansen spent 18 years at Perdue Farms in a variety of leadership positions including vice president of sales club and mass merchandisers as well as general manager of the turkey business unit. He also held several sales and operations leadership roles at Perdue. Before his successful career at Perdue, Jansen was with Agrimetrics as a senior director of broiler programs.