Good morning, it's Lila MacLellan filling in for Sheryl Estrada. In 2022, Tyson Foods arguably took a risk by appointing John Randal Tyson as the chief finance officer at his family’s $21 billion chicken and meat processing firm.
When he was given the vaunted title, Tyson was 32, making him the youngest CFO in the Fortune 500 at the time. But unlike a handful of other 30-something finance leaders at big public companies, Tyson had little formal business experience on his résumé. He was slotted into a CFO role that many consider to be second-in-command at the nearly 90-year-old company, where his father John H. Tyson has been chairman since 1998.
