Food safety and sanitation industry leader PSSI has promoted an executive.

As senior vice president for the central region, Monty Christenberry  will oversee PSSI’s partnerships and operational initiatives with food processors in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, parts of Kansas and the company’s Gulf Coast Southwest and Southcentral Divisions.

Christenberry joined PSSI in 2003 and worked most recently as the company’s vice president of operations.

“Monty has an engaging leadership style that has been instrumental in building our business and our internal culture at PSSI,” says Dan Taft, president and CEO of PSSI. “He is passionate about the advancement of food safety and we are happy to have him as part of our senior team to continue expanding our partnerships across the Central Region.”

“I am proud to work for an organization that prioritizes its people and culture,” says Christenberry. “We have an outstanding team of the industry’s most talented and dedicated people and I am honored to help support and lead them to continue building on our success.”