John Brase
President and Chief Executive Officer
2026 – Present
0 years (current)
Legacy
Leads Conagra's current reset focused on brand performance, volume, profitability, and execution.
Conagra Brands, Inc.
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Leadership History
5 leaders · 1919 to present
Conagra is a packaged food company built around convenience. Its brands sit in frozen, pantry, snack, sauce, dessert, and foodservice categories where retailer execution, pricing, promotion, and brand relevance determine results.
Conagra earns revenue by selling branded and private-label packaged foods through grocery stores, mass retailers, club stores, convenience channels, e-commerce, and foodservice customers. Its portfolio includes frozen meals, vegetables, snacks, sauces, cooking sprays, canned foods, desserts, meat snacks, and shelf-stable pantry brands.
President and Chief Executive Officer
2026 – Present
0 years (current)
Leads Conagra's current reset focused on brand performance, volume, profitability, and execution.
Former President and CEO
2015 – 2026
11 years
Led the branded-food transformation, including the Pinnacle Foods acquisition and portfolio reshaping.
Former CEO
2005 – 2015
10 years
Managed ConAgra through portfolio shifts and the Ralcorp era.
Former Chairman and CEO
1968 – 1992
24 years
Expanded ConAgra from milling roots into a much larger food processing company through acquisitions.
Founder
1919 – Present
107 years (current)
Helped establish Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the origin of what became Conagra.
Conagra's main risks are volume pressure after years of pricing, private-label competition, retailer power, commodity costs, frozen-food competition, health and GLP-1 consumption shifts, debt from past acquisitions, and the need to restore growth after a difficult fiscal 2026.
John Brase is President and Chief Executive Officer of Conagra Brands.
John Brase became CEO in 2026.
Sean Connolly was Conagra's prior CEO and led the Pinnacle Foods-era transformation.
Leadership is focused on restoring volume, improving profitability, supporting core brands, and competing against private label.