Tuffy’s Pet Foods, a brand of Perham, Minn.-based KLN Family Brands, hired Darren Fujii as
its chief growth officer.
Fujii received his MBA from Notre Dame and spent years consulting for several companies
including Kelloggs, MGM Studios, McCormick and Company, Con Agra Foods, WW Grainger and
Briggs & Stratton.
He has held leadership positions from vice president of business transformation at Con Agra
Foods to chief information officer and CFO at Isagenix International.
Most recently he was president of Natural Pet Partners (dba Pet Club) leading a turnaround
for a 50 store independent pet retailer in Arizona and Colorado.
Fujii is aggressively leading targeted efforts to rapidly expand Tuffy’s digital marketing
and social media engagement in a cooperative venture with retail partners, said company
officials.