Ronald Cameron joined Mountaire in 1968 and became chairman and CEO after the death of his father, G. Ted Cameron, in 1978. Cameron is also a member of Bear State Financial Holdings, an Arkansas investment group that controls Bear State Financial Inc. of Harrison, formerly First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas.

Mountaire, a poultry producer under the Mountaire Foods and Mountaire Farms brands, had $2 billion in revenue in 2013 and more than 6,000 employees nationwide, making it the second-largest private company headquartered in Arkansas ranked by 2013 revenue.