10 Perdue Farms marketing leaders
Jonathan Swadley, Vice President Marketing at Perdue Farms, opens this list of Perdue Farms marketing leaders, which also includes vice presidents of integrated marketing and foodservice marketing and directors of brand marketing and brand management. A reader can learn how marketing leaders work at Perdue Farms from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Cody Walter
LinkedInExperience: Director of Brand Management · Perdue Farms
Cody Walter has been Director of Brand Management at Perdue Farms since June 2025, and the role listing names PERDUE® Ready-To-Eat Brands. At Perdue Farms they were Senior Marketing Manager (2021–2025), Asst Marketing Manager (2018–2021) and Account Representative (2016–2018), and they were Product Marketing Manager at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. in 2021.
Doug Wickman
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Foodservice · Perdue Farms
Doug Wickman has been Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Foodservice at Perdue Farms since October 2008, based in Salisbury, Maryland. At Perdue Farms they were Vice President of Foodservice Marketing and Business Development (2005–2008), and they were VP Marketing at Conagra Brands (2001–2004) and VP of Marketing at Tyson Foods (1990–2001).
Erika Welk
LinkedInExperience: Director of Brand Marketing · Perdue Farms
Erika Welk has been Director of Brand Marketing at Perdue Farms since July 2025, based in Salisbury, Maryland. At Perdue Farms they were Director of Sales Planning (2023–2025), Director of Marketing Operations, E-commerce (2022–2023), Senior Merchandising Manager - Ecommerce (2020–2022) and E-commerce Merchandising Manager (2019–2020).
Gail McWilliam
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Marketing- Perdue Premium Prepared Foods · Perdue Farms
Gail McWilliam has been Vice President Marketing- Perdue Premium Prepared Foods at Perdue Farms since August 2012, based in Berlin, Maryland. At Perdue Farms they were also Sr. Marketing Director (2010–2012), Marketing Director (2006–2010) and Sr. Marketing Manager- RTC (2005–2006), and they were Marketing Manager- CPG Products at Conagra Brands (1998–2004).
Jeff Knabe
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Marketing Perdue Masterbrand & Ready-To-Cook · Perdue Farms
Jeff Knabe has been Senior Director of Marketing Perdue Masterbrand & Ready-To-Cook at Perdue Farms since July 2025, in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area. At Perdue Farms they were Senior Director of Marketing Innovation & Renovation Fresh & Prepared Foods (2023–2025) and Director of Marketing Prepared Foods Innovation (2021–2023), and they were Marketing Director | Brand Strategy at McCormick & Company (2019–2021).
Jennifer Cannon
LinkedInExperience: Director of Marketing - Foodservice, Wholesale, Industrial and International · Perdue Farms
Jennifer Cannon has been Director of Marketing - Foodservice, Wholesale, Industrial and International at Perdue Farms since January 2025, based in Salisbury, Maryland. At Perdue Farms they were Senior Foodservice Product Marketing Manager (2013–2025), and they also list a Category Sales Manager role there with no end date.
Jody H.
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Integrated Marketing · Perdue Farms
Jody H. has been Vice President of Integrated Marketing at Perdue Farms since October 2023, based in Berlin, Maryland. At Perdue Farms they were also Senior Director of Marketing (2022–2023), Marketing Director, National Brands (2014–2022), Brand Director - Harvestland Coleman Natural Brands (2013–2014) and Senior Marketing Manager - Ready to Eat (2012–2013).
Jonathan Swadley
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Marketing · Perdue Farms
Jonathan Swadley has been Vice President Marketing at Perdue Farms since July 2021, based in Easton, Maryland. They were also Vice President Marketing at Foster Farms (2015–2021), Marketing Director at Kraft Heinz (2013–2015) and VP of Marketing at Lactalis USA (2012–2013), and the profile names Perdue among the brands they have worked on.
Justin Pirotte
LinkedInExperience: Director of Brand Management · Perdue Farms
Justin Pirotte has been Director of Brand Management at Perdue Farms since July 2025, in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area. They were Senior Marketing Manager at Perdue Farms (2022–2025), Senior Marketing Manager - Upstream Innovation at McCormick & Company (2020–2022) and Channel Marketing Manager at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (2017–2019).
Karen Hill
LinkedInExperience: Brand Director of RTC Innovation Renovation · Perdue Farms
Karen Hill has been Brand Director of RTC Innovation Renovation at Perdue Farms since June 2026 and was Brand Director, Own Brands & Deli there in 2026. They were Global Strategic Marketing Manager, Health and Life Science at W. R. Grace (2024–2025) and Senior Marketing Manager, Convenient Meals, Design Innovation at McCormick & Company (2022–2024).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's brand portfolio and channel to the decision you face, since retail brand, foodservice and integrated marketing roles see different parts of the work. Weigh how recently someone took on their current role against the depth of the roles they held before it.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What does your marketing role own day to day, and how does it work with the sales and innovation teams around it?
- 02What did you change first when you took on your current marketing role, and why?
- 03What would you tell someone stepping into a brand marketing leadership role at a food company for the first time?
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