Elton Evans is Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TruSource, a collective of leading regional produce companies built to scale while preserving the local trust the industry depends on.

He operates on a core conviction: scale only creates value if it strengthens what customers and communities already rely on. That belief took shape at Sysco, where he served as Vice President and CFO of Foodservice Operations inside a $48 billion distribution business, and was sharpened through a deliberate CFO-to-CEO path across PepsiCo, Cardinal Health, Stanley Black & Decker, and US LBM. Over the course of his career, Elton has helped lead and scale multibillion-dollar businesses across food distribution, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, and building products.

In 2024, Elton joined Red Arts Capital as an Executive Advisor, where he led the work that became TruSource. Today, he is building a network that adds shared capability and operating discipline while preserving the local brands, customer relationships, and service cultures that made each company strong.

For Elton, the work has always been larger than distribution. How reliably fresh food moves affects how communities are fed, and his experience across financial leadership, operations, M&A, governance, and the fresh-food supply chain gives him a deep understanding of the systems required to expand access to fresh produce and support healthier communities.

Elton is a member of The Executive Leadership Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science from North Carolina A&T State University and an MBA from Bellarmine University, with executive education at Duke University and through the Columbia Business School CFO Program.