United States, April 2026 — Marva Steed has joined Fourteen Foods as Chief Human Resources Officer. Her appointment marks an important leadership move for the company as it continues to strengthen its people strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture. With extensive experience in human resources leadership across retail and aviation, she brings a strong track record in talent, compliance, succession planning, employee relations, and business-aligned HR transformation.
Before joining Fourteen Foods, Marva Steed served as Executive Vice President Human Resources at Dufresne Spencer Group, LLC dba Ashley, where she spent more than eleven years as a key member of the executive management team, reporting directly to the CEO. In that role, she drove innovative staffing and HR practices that supported significant revenue growth, led a major annual payroll operation for a diverse workforce, transformed benefits offerings to improve recruitment and retention, and helped build a unified, performance-driven culture. She also led due diligence for mergers and acquisitions covering legal, payroll, HR, and insurance matters, while pioneering corporate values that energized the workforce and contributed to stronger business performance.
Prior to that, she built a substantial career at Pinnacle Airlines Corp., where she served as Director of Human Resources. In this role, she was responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s human resources function, including labor and employee relations, talent acquisition, benefits administration, safety and security, training and development, regulatory and legal strategy, succession planning, performance management, and DOT and FAA drug and alcohol regulatory compliance. Earlier, she also served as Senior Human Resources Manager at the company, further strengthening her HR leadership foundation.
Her career reflects broad and progressive experience across strategic HR leadership, workforce management, culture building, legal and regulatory compliance, training, succession planning, and organizational growth. With this extensive background, Marva Steed is well positioned to lead the people agenda at Fourteen Foods as the company continues to invest in service-minded teams, hospitality, and community impact.
About Fourteen Foods
Fourteen Foods has built its success on service-minded teams, loyal fans, and a commitment to the communities it serves. While operating in the food and soft-serve space, the company describes itself as a memory-making, smile-generating business that thrives on celebration with its teams, fans, and local communities. It positions itself as an experience brand that empowers its teams to serve with love and compassion while delivering exceptional hospitality every day.
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