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Marion, Ohio

Los Angeles, Calif.

Up and coming snack food company based in Los Angeles. Co-manufacture and distribute various high end snack food products under the Sunkist, World Peas labels and now launching a new innovative healthier snack, "PEETOS".

National Office, Chicago, Ill.

Leading the National Supply Chain team that partners to support over 200 member food banks across the United States. The Feeding America network sources food and funds for operations and programming to feed and support 46 million Americans that are food insecure, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors. Sourcing and distributing food that.

Charlotte, NC

Restructured entire product portfolio, established national footprint for a common service model, integrated several new operating systems tools, rationalized the manufacturing platform and positioned the company for sale with transaction completed in November of 2015. Purchased by Ecolab.

Charlotte, NC

Swisher Hygiene a $300MM publicly traded services company focusing on a broad offering of specialty goods and services for commercial, institutional, and hospitality customers. Swisher's core services include ware-washing, saniservice, linen, and a wide variety of manufactured and distributed specialty chemicals underpinning these services. Swisher was.

Charlotte, NC

A $550MM regional snack food company in 2006. Manufactured and distributed branded, private branded, and contract manufactured snack products throughout North America. Grew to $1.6B by early 2011 through four (4) acquisitions and the merger with Snyder’s of Hanover. Operated a large DSD network of over 3,000 routes. Manufacturing operations in the U.S. and.

Philadelphia, PA

A $240MM regional snack cake company. Manufactured and distributed branded and private branded snack cakes and other assorted baked snacks. Brands included TastyKake and Sensables. Operated a 500-route DSD network. Member of the senior executive team reporting to the CEO, directly responsible for manufacturing, procurement, distribution, logistics, R&D.

Led an operations team that supported two DSD sales regions making over 18K sales calls daily, generating over $900MM annual sales of well known brands such as; Lay’s, Ruffle’s, Doritos, Fritos, Cheeto’s, and Tostitos. Interfaced with Frito Lay’s Canadian business team as these businesses overlapped. Shared P&L responsibility with the two (2) Region.

Led operations team that supported the region sales team making over 9,000 daily sales calls and generating over $450MM in annual sales. Shared P&L responsibility with the Carolina’s Region Business Team, directly responsible for manufacturing, distribution, logistics, quality, engineering, and sales operations. Dotted line to the Region GM.

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