Mr. Fareed Khan

Fareed Khan has held executive leadership roles in both mature and early-stage business across a variety of industries.  Over a 30-year career he has led significant strategic transformations encompassing accelerated M&A, portfolio transformation and aggressive change management.  Fareed started as a Mechanical Engineer, but his career has taken him through management consulting, operations leadership, and financial leadership positions.  Fareed is currently a senior leader at Just Food for Dogs, a rapidly growing company specializing in human-grade fresh dog food, where he is the CFO and General Manager of Retail.  Prior to this role, Fareed was Chief Financial Officer at Enjoy Technologies, a company creating the next generation of the retail store for the world’s leading telecommunications and consumer electronics companies. Prior to Enjoy, Fareed was Chief Operating and Financial Offer at Parallel, one of the nation’s fastest growing early-stage health and wellness companies, where he led all commercial, operations, finance, and investor-related functions during a period of rapid expansion.

Previously Fareed was Chief Financial officer for the Kellogg Company, a $14B revenue consumer products company, focusing on a global transformational agenda to accelerate profitable growth though portfolio changes and efficiency initiatives.   As Chief Financial Officer at US Foods, a $23B distribution business, he led their 2016 IPO raising over $1.1B and helped drive a transformation in the business focused on e-commerce leadership, innovation, and supply chain efficiency. Earlier in his career Fareed held a variety of operations leadership roles at USG Corporation with expanding responsibility over a 13-year period, including President and CEO of USG Building Systems a $4B manufacturing business with over 9,000 employees across 60 production facilities.

Fareed’s daughter Ava is Wake Forest student, Class of 2024, studying Biomedical Engineering.  His son, Zander, is a Wake Forest student, Class of 2026, focused on Business. 

Currently: Chief and Head of Retail, Just Food For Dogs, Irvine, California

Formerly: (1) CFO, Enjoy Technology, (2) CFO and COO Parallel, (3) CFO, Kellogg Company, (4) CFO, US Foods, (5) CFO, Ascendent, (6) President and CEO, USG Building Systems, etc.

Education: (1) 1993 – M.B.A., The University of Chicago, (2) 1988 – B.S. Eng. Mechanical Engineering, Carleton University