Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated announced that Bob Wight will retire later 2016 after 28 years of dedicated service and Teresa Fortney will be appointed Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 24, 2016. Teresa Fortney is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 29 years of senior financial leadership experience in the consumer foods industry including Maple Leaf Foods, Schneider Foods and McCormick. Teresa is a University of Waterloo mathematics graduate who has spent most of her career in growth oriented, multi-site manufacturing and distribution environments in the food industry.

At Schneider, she developed her treasury skills, analyzed numerous acquisitions and implemented SOX while introducing project management and enhancing business process controls and systems. Most recently, she has been the CFO of Wescast, a role that allowed Teresa to further hone her investor relations, public markets, international and M&A expertise in a company that was publicly traded until its sale to Chinese interests in early 2013. Effective March 24, 2016 and until his retirement, Bob Wight will assume project leadership responsibilities for the successful integration of Macduff Shellfish, acquired by Clearwater in October, 2015.