Kraig R. Naasz has been named president and CEO of the American Frozen Food Institute and will take the helm on February 1. Naasz was president and CEO of the National Mining Association until August 2008.

In October 2008, Naasz joined the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., according to news reports. Clearly the Institute wasn't too worried about Naasz's Republican pedigree, even with Democrats in charge of Congress and the White House.

Most recently, Naasz was a senior advisor at Washington Advocates. He replaces Leslie G. Sarasin who left the Institute late last year to head up the Food Marketing Institute.

(Photo courtesy of National Journal's Liz Lynch)

                                                                                                                  --Bara Vaida