Tampa Maid Foods LLC is owned by Watkins Associated Industries, a family owned U.S. company. Tampa Maid is in the business of sourcing, processing and marketing quality value-added products from around the world to the foodservice and retail markets.
Shawn Meaney
Shawn is a food industry veteran with 30 years of experience in general management, supply chain, manufacturing, commodity procurement, trading, and risk strategy. He has held executive roles with a notable list of food and beverage companies including Keebler Company, Sara Lee Brands, E&J Gallo Winery and ConAgra Brands. In May of this year, he joined Tampa Maid Foods, a leading manufacturer of retail and foodservice seafood and vegetable products as its President and COO. Prior to Tampa Maid, Shawn led JM Swank, LLC, a $500MM US food Ingredient distributor, as a division of ConAgra Brands and as its CEO under private equity ownership. In addition, Shawn is a co-founder and shareholder of Buck Creek Distributing, a growing distributor of inputs into the craft brewing and distilling industries, and he led Buck Creek as an entrepreneurial CEO through its successful start-up phase. Shawn is a graduate of Iowa State University with a BBA in Business Logistics and holds an MBA from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business. Outside of work, Shawn is a multi-time ironman finisher, an avid outdoorsman, and an enthusiastic student of historical property renovation. In addition, Shawn has served on boards for both private equity-backed and non-profit organizations and is an active supporter of community-based efforts focused on child nutrition and food insecurity.