Bio

John T. Stout, Jr. has over 35 years of food manufacturing experience. Prior to forming Plaza Belmont in 1998, Mr. Stout was President of Manildra Milling Corporation (Shawnee Mission, Kansas), an internationally owned food ingredient manufacturing company. In 1990, he helped form a group of investors who purchased Diana Fruit Company (Santa Clara, California) from Tyson Foods. Prior to that Mr. Stout was Executive Vice President of Dixie Portland Flour Mills (Memphis, Tennessee), a subsidiary of Holly Farms. Mr. Stout is active within the food industry having served as Chairman of the International Wheat Gluten Association, the Wheat Quality Council, the Allied Trades of the Baking Industry, and the Young Baking Executives of the American Bakers Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Bakers Association, The American Institute of Baking, Dixie Portland Flour Mills, Manildra Energy, Manildra Milling, Agricor, SPI Foods, Bryce Corporation, Premier Blending, Hilton House Foods, National Harvest, Casa de Oro Foods and MaMa Rosa’s. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, The Mennel Milling Company, The Andersons, Diana Fruit Company, Packaging Products and Labriola Baking Company. John has been active in the YPO, and has served as Moderator of the Alpha Forum in the Kansas City chapter of YPO. Mr. Stout has a BBA from Emory University.