2017 Annual Business Conference (ABC): Registered Attendees
The following list shows all attendees as of November 22, 2024. Click on each column header to sort by that category.
Attendee Name | Title | Company |
Therese Claypool | Account Manager | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Amy Plogmann | Administrator | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Scott Lackey | Agency Sales Manager | |
Andrew Martin | Agency Sales Manager | |
Mike Townley | Agency Sales Manager | Georgia-Pacific |
Tom Ehmen | Area Director, Customer Development | Mondelez International |
Kevin Green | Area Vice President | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Denny Lukavsky | Assistant Vice President, Purchasing, Grocery and Frozen | |
Maggie Gilliam | Associate | Planet Retail RNG |
Germaine Hunter | Associate | The Clorox Company |
Laura McGuire | Associate | Technomic Inc. |
Chelsea Briner | Associate Director | Mondelez International |
Rob Hornback | Associate Director Midwest Regional Team | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Cosmo Formichelli | Associate Director, Category Management | Nestle USA, Inc. |
Joy Mead | Associate Director, Marketing | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Jeff Miller | Biscuit Planner | Mondelez International |
Tim Schaefer | Brand Manager Galaxy | Merchants Distributors, LLC |
Angela Gray | Broker Manager | Mondelez International |
John Seguin | Business Development Manager | Planet Retail RNG |
Todd Gean | Category Manager, Candy | |
Irina Oswald | Category Manager, Non Perishables | |
Todd Fox | Category Manager, Private Label | Hy-Vee, Inc. |
Robert Zullinger | CBDM Northeast Team | |
Bruce Brown | Chief Customer Officer | WK Kellogg Co |
Scott Salmon | Chief Customer Officer | |
David Stis | Chief Customer Officer | Del Monte Foods, Inc. |
Tom Tomescko | Chief Customer Officer | L&R Distributors |
Jim Athey | Chief Executive Officer | L&R Distributors |
Federico Muyshondt | Chief Executive Officer | BODYARMOR | POWERADE |
Christopher Hooks | Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer | Save Mart Supermarkets, LLC |
Brian Audette | Chief Merchandising Officer | UNFI |
Dennis Hickey | Chief Merchandising Officer | Krasdale Foods, Inc. |
George Knobloch | Chief Operating Officer | Key Food Stores Co-operative, Inc. |
Ashley Roehm | Chief Sales Officer | Acosta |
Rick Brindle | Consultant | Wakefern Food Corp. |
Marc Thomas | Consultant, Events | FMI |
Kevin Post | Customer Business Lead | Mondelez International |
Joe Arthur | Customer Business Manager | Unilever |
Alayna Bustamante | Customer Category Manager | Mondelez International |
Glen Smith | Customer Develop Strategic Grocery | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
Sheila Shrofe | Customer Development Director | |
Beth Kincaid | Customer Development Director, Central Division | Unilever |
Shayna Steelman | Customer Meeting and Event Planner | |
Matt Rausch | Customer Sales Director | Georgia-Pacific |
Kristi Simmons | Customer Sales Executive, Missouri | The Hershey Company |
Mark Seagreaves | Customer Team Lead Ahold/Delhaize | Kellanova |
Bob Ferretti | Customer Team Leader | The Clorox Company |
Lisa Angeles | Customer Vice President | |
Graham Kidd | Customer Vice President | Mondelez International |
Douglas DeWilde | Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Craig Pariseau | Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Matt Schuster | Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Julie Seibert | Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Sherry Ellies | Director Customer Development | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
Julie Bitter | Director Customer Development, Southeast | |
John Campion | Director Northeast Teams | |
Brian Bosworth | Director of Center Store Merchandising | |
Craig Drefcinski | Director of Deli Sales | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Dan Kellenberger | Director of Sales | The Clorox Company |
Michael Yarbrough | Director of Sales | DFA |
Chuck Karnes | Director of Sales -- Large Format | Jack Links Protein Snacks |
Justin Leazer | Director of Strategy and Business Development | Schnuck Markets, Inc. |
Trent Nehls | Director Sales | Mars Wrigley Confectionery |
Michael Gilmartin | Director Shopper Insights | |
Tim Peterson | Director Team Sales | Kellanova |
Ryan Stimac | Director, Agency East | |
Mike Convey | Director, Category Management | |
Michael Richardson | Director, Category Management, Center Store | |
Glenn Frazier | Director, Category Strategy and Insights East | The Hershey Company |
Mike DeSimone | Director, Center Store | |
Christine Mittendorf | Director, Center Store | |
Steve Sorensen | Director, Center Store | Lund Food Holdings, Inc. (Lunds & Byerlys) |
Thomas Byom | Director, Central Region | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Tom Spaniol | Director, CSI Food West | The Hershey Company |
Peter Thompson | Director, Customer and Industry Development | |
Mary Beth Meyer | Director, Customer Business Leader, West | Mondelez International |
Ron Galbreath | Director, Customer Business Team | Mondelez International |
Michael Walton | Director, Customer Development, West | Unilever |
Andrew Sellers | Director, Customer Planning | The Hershey Company |
Philip Nicolette | Director, Customer Supply Chain | |
Chace MacMullan | Director, Digital and Brand Strategy | Schnuck Markets, Inc. |
Phillip Worley | Director, Grocery Operations | K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. |
Karen Bakewell | Director, Grocery, Frozen and Dairy Merchandising | SpartanNash Company |
Tom Cosgrove | Director, Industry Relations | FMI |
Dylana Silver | Director, Marketing | |
Kirk Clark | Director, Merchandising | Mitchell Grocery Corporation |
Sean Desmond | Director, Merchandising, NY Metro | Allegiance Retail Services, LLC (Foodtown) |
Michael Beckett | Director, Northeast | Danone North America |
Jeff Compton | Director, Retail Pricing | K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. |
Shawn Henderson | Director, Sales | General Mills, Inc. |
Scott Moore | Director, Sales | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Brent Payne | Director, Sales | |
Katia Ma | Director, Sales Operations and Trade Relations | Nestle USA, Inc. |
Mark Wilhite | Director, Sales, Retail Grocery | |
Wendy Hubbeling | Director, Team Lead | |
Brenda Benkert | Director, Team Sales | Kellanova |
Bob Richardson | Director, Trade Relations | The Clorox Company |
Richard Caplin | Director, U.S. Grocery Operations | Colgate-Palmolive Company |
Tim Cross | Director, Urban Business Development | Danone North America |
Ian Opradek | Director, US Food Wholesale | The Hershey Company |
Randal Kemnitz | Director, Western Regions, CPS | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Brian Lawson | Division Vice President | Nestle Nutrition |
Jesse Thelen | Divisional Vice President, Grocery East | |
Brad Horn | Divisional Vice President, US Retail Sales, East | |
Kimberly Kelsey | Event Marketing | |
Mark Harvey | Executive Director, Category Sales | |
Roger White | Executive SVP, Chief Operating Officer | Associated Food Stores, Inc. |
Terry Thomas | Executive Vice President and CCO | |
Chris Boever | Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer | |
Derek De La Mater | Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer | Conagra Brands |
Randy Munns | Executive Vice President and COO | Festival Foods |
Colleen Flaherty | Executive Vice President of Sales | |
Dan Glei | Executive Vice President, Merchandising and Marketing | K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. |
Steven Heggelke | Executive Vice President, Merchandising and Procurement | Bozzuto's Inc. |
Neal Leonhardt | Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing | |
Nick Carlino | Executive Vice President, Sales and Retail Operations | Merchants Distributors, LLC |
Ted Schnuck | Executive Vice President, Supermarkets | Schnuck Markets, Inc. |
Kim Reed | General Manager, Grocery | |
David Edwards | Grocery Procurement Manager | Wakefern Food Corp. |
Deanna Brady | Group Vice President and President, Consumer Products Sales | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Tom Tomaselli | Group Vice President Fresh Merchandising, Northeast Grocery Shared Services | Northeast Grocery, Inc. |
Joseph McQuesten | Group Vice President, Merchandising | Brookshire Grocery Company |
Stuart Bruton | Head Buyer | W. Lee Flowers & Co., Inc. |
Robert Lindstrom | Head of North America Customer Supply Chain | |
Mark Frazier | Head of Northeast Region Sales | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Chris Regennitter | Head of Refrigerated Sales | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Adam Roscher | Head of Sales, Kroger | |
Joseph Cresta | Head of Southeast Region | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Sergio Nahuz | Head of U.S. Sales | The Kraft Heinz Company |
John Havens Jr. | Industry Relations Consultant, Nestle USA, Inc. | Nestle USA, Inc. |
Yana Gegechkori | Industry Relations Coordinator | Unilever |
Todd Schilling | Interim Director, Grocery, Frozen and Dairy | |
Nathan Bower | Key Account Manager | |
Scott Cameron | Key Food Consultant | |
Sarah Johnson | Manager Business Analytics | |
Doug Langan | Manager of Customer Business Development, North America Regional Teams | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Pat Smith | Manager, Customer Engagement | Mondelez International |
Mark Kielczynski | Manager, Grocery Logistics Grocery Marketing Division | Wakefern Food Corp. |
Adam Hayes | Manager, Industry Affairs | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Karen Doggendorf | Manager, Industry Relations | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Thomas Neylon | Managing Director | Acosta |
Judi Kletz | Managing Director, Industry Affairs | |
Lizzy Freier | Managing Editor, Menu Analysis | Technomic Inc. |
Aimee Harvey | Managing Editor, Retail Foodservice | Technomic Inc. |
Julie Jones | ManagingDirector, Grocery and Home Hardware | |
Carrie Birth | Marketing Director Skin/Personal Care Walmart Team | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Kurt Mehring | MegaMex Sales Manager | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Steve Collette | Merchandising and Marketing Manager | |
Dan McConegly | National Account Manager | |
Thomas Parsons | National Category Sales Manager, GP | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Chris Hopp | National Manager of Category Sales | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Alison Castillo | Omni Delivery Lead | Unilever |
Nick Albrecht | President | The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co. |
Rodney Antolock | President | |
William Kies | President | Kies Consulting, LLC |
Tim Lowe | President | Lowes Foods, LLC |
David Mitchell | President | Mitchell Grocery Corporation |
Jason Ramsey | President | Merchants Distributors, LLC |
S. Neal Berube | President and CEO | |
Dan Funk | President and CEO | Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Doug Behrens | President and Chief Customer Officer | |
Steve Mayer | President, Bashas’ Operating Company | Bashas' Inc. |
Brian George | President, Chairman and CEO | Alex Lee, Inc. |
Kurt Laufer | President, Customer Development | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
Krishnakumar Davey | President, Strategic Analytics | |
Michael Crouse | President, US Food Service | |
James Frusciante | President, US Retail Sales | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Connie Chang | Principal | Circana |
Peri Edelstein | Principal | Boston Consulting Group |
Meghan Tisch | Project Coordinator and Executive Assistant | Circana |
Megan Fritz | Region Sales Director, National Wholesale | General Mills, Inc. |
Lyndsay Rogers | Region Vice President, Morning Foods Sales | Kellanova |
Richard Morrow | Region Vice President, Snack Sales | |
George Casab | Regional Business Manager | Nestle Nutrition |
John Fowler | Regional Business Manager | Nestle Nutrition |
Mark Hagerman | Regional Business Manager | Nestle Nutrition |
Brad Owens | Regional Business Manager | Nestle Nutrition |
Mike Stupecky | Regional Business Manager | Nestle Nutrition |
Bubba O'Brien | Regional Sales Manager, Southeast | The Clorox Company |
Brandi Gamble | Regional Senior Sales Manager | |
Mike Maraldo | Regional Vice President | Giant Eagle, Inc. |
Doug Davis | Retail Execution Manager | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Dave Jones | Retired | |
Becky Lubker | Rotational Partner | |
Jan Ruehlicke | Sales and Marketing | |
Doug Wilson | Sales Director Northeast | DFA |
Sara Kelly | Sales Director, Target | Mars Wrigley Confectionery |
Richard Prast | Sales Team Leader | The Clorox Company |
Patrick Walsh | Senior Advisor, Consultant | FMI |
Yan Lo | Senior Customer Manager | |
Lindsay Smith | Senior Customer Manager | |
Paul Wildermuth | Senior Customer Manager | General Mills, Inc. |
Bruce Evans | Senior Director of Sales | Georgia-Pacific |
Chad Hansen | Senior Director of Sales | Georgia-Pacific |
Sheri LeBrun | Senior Director Region Accounts | |
Michael Algard | Senior Director, Agency Regional Grocery | Colgate-Palmolive Company |
Peter Collins | Senior Director, Business Development & Membership | FMI |
Joey Bates | Senior Director, Center Store Merchandising | Harris Teeter LLC |
Edward Murphy | Senior Director, Customer Marketing and Planning | |
Anthony Pleasants | Senior Director, Mid-Atlantic | Danone North America |
Jeff Admiraal | Senior Director, Shopper Analytics & Insights | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Joe Beck | Senior Director, Strategic Food, East Customers | The Hershey Company |
Tony Patrignelli | Senior Director, Trade Optimization and Customer Operations | |
Tess Hohman | Senior Manager, Industry Initiatives | General Mills, Inc. |
Alyssa Bronikowski | Senior Manager, Industry Relations and Sales Communications | |
Nick Walsh | Senior Manager, Liquidation Sales | |
Jarret Bonfitto | Senior Manager, Member Development | Topco Associates LLC |
Marc Bailey | Senior Region Manager, Grocery East | |
Patrice Polta | Senior Region Manager, Grocery West | |
Amy Guerre | Senior Sales Director | Mars Wrigley Confectionery |
Vinnie Rinaldo | Senior Trade Event Manager | Mars Wrigley Confectionery |
Lauri Luker | Senior Vice President | |
Tom Murray | Senior Vice President | DFA |
Gina Kelly | Senior Vice President & Chief Customer Officer | The Clorox Company |
Andy Knoblauch | Senior Vice President of Center Store Merchandising | |
Dennis Host | Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications | Coborn's, Inc. |
Jim Goers | Senior Vice President, Account Management and National Brands | |
Deana Sabatino | Senior Vice President, Business Development | |
Brian Duff | Senior Vice President, Buying and Logistics | |
Matt Gregory | Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer | |
Chris Lavoie | Senior Vice President, Client Development | Acosta |
Robert Policano | Senior Vice President, Dairy and Frozen Merchandising | |
Ian Prisuta | Senior Vice President, Grocery Merchandising | |
Robert Crane | Senior Vice President, Head of Sales & Commercialization | The J.M. Smucker Company |
Curtis Funk | Senior Vice President, Merchandising | Lund Food Holdings, Inc. (Lunds & Byerlys) |
Richard Gunn | Senior Vice President, Merchandising and Marketing | |
Chuck Thompson | Senior Vice President, Merchandising and Marketing | Harris Teeter LLC |
Isaac Wiese | Senior Vice President, Procurement | Hy-Vee, Inc. |
Danny Lane | Senior Vice President, Regional Manager Southern | Associated Wholesale Grocers - Oklahoma City Division |
Chris Chromy | Senior Vice President, Sales | Conagra Brands |
Jim Donzelli | Senior Vice President, Sales | Conagra Brands |
David Merritt | Senior Vice President, Sales | Conagra Brands |
Kurt Mueller | Senior Vice President, Sales | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Jesse Garcia | Senior Vice President, Sales and CCO | |
Richard DeSimone | Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing | |
Jimmy Taylor | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Capabilities | Conagra Brands |
Jeff Monroe | Senior Vice President, South Region | DFA |
James Sterbenz | Senior Vice President, U.S. Retail Sales | |
Kevin Jackson | Senior Vice President, U.S. Retail Sales and N.A. Away From Home | |
Rochelle Seideneck | SVP, Enterprise Marketing | Giant Eagle, Inc. |
Leon Bergmann | SVP/GM, West | C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Pia Heine | Team Leader, Grocery | |
Martin Becker | Team Leader, Regional Grocery Sales | |
Chris French | Team Leader, Replenishment | Georgia-Pacific |
Hillen Lee | Vice President | The Procter & Gamble Distributing Company LLC |
Paul Cooke | Vice President and Director, Industry Relations | |
Steve Berg | Vice President and Managing Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Pete Marucci | Vice President and Managing Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Richard Hess | Vice President Client Development | Acosta |
Heather McIntyre Froud | Vice President Global Walmart - Meals & Beverage | Campbell Soup Company |
Donna Banks-Ficcio | Vice President Grocery, Frozen, Dairy, Merchandising - Central Region | UNFI |
Tom Sweeney | Vice President Merchandising and Brands | |
Leah Gardner | Vice President NA Customer Excellence/Supply Chain | The Kraft Heinz Company |
Jack See | Vice President of Sales, West Division | |
Greg Carbone | Vice President Sales, East Region Accounts | Kellanova |
Kari Swift | Vice President Strategic Sales Family Care | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
Shannon Hodock McCoy | Vice President, Acosta Clorox | Acosta |
Jack Kelly | Vice President, Category Management | |
Ray Harrison | Vice President, Center Store | |
Tim Horton | Vice President, Center Store | Schnuck Markets, Inc. |
Jeff King | Vice President, Center Store | Bozzuto's Inc. |
Jodi Robinson | Vice President, Center Store | Lund Food Holdings, Inc. (Lunds & Byerlys) |
Mark Johnson | Vice President, Center Store Merchandising | |
Ross Purdy | Vice President, Center Store Merchandising | K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. |
Joe Zink | Vice President, Center Store Merchandising | Festival Foods |
Terry Palmisano | Vice President, Center Store Sales | |
David Panter | Vice President, Center Store Sales and Merchandising | Associated Food Stores, Inc. |
Rob Gehring | Vice President, Chief Sales Officer | |
Christy Lee | Vice President, Client Development | Acosta |
Kendall Mayo | Vice President, Client Development | Acosta |
Beth Jolly | Vice President, Communications, Meals & Beverages | Campbell Soup Company |
Mark Luebbers | Vice President, Customer Business Development | |
Kathy Hayden | Vice President, Customer Business Solutions | |
Mark Arrington | Vice President, Customer Development | |
Steve Schumacher | Vice President, Customer Development, Supermarkets, West | Unilever |
Jeff Siegel | Vice President, Customer Interface Group | |
Eric Fouts | Vice President, Customer Supply Chain | |
Paige Norwood | Vice President, East Operations Nestle Team | Acosta |
Michael West | Vice President, Food West | The Hershey Company |
Brent Cotten | Vice President, Global Customer and Industry Affairs | The Hershey Company |
Michael Browne | Vice President, Grocery | WK Kellogg Co |
Mark Criswell | Vice President, Independent Merchandising | C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
Dennis Belcastro | Vice President, Industry Affairs and Customer Development | Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
Adam Dill | Vice President, Industry Initiatives | |
Michael Ridenour | Vice President, Industry Relations | UNFI |
David Nolen | Vice President, Knowledge and Insights | The Hershey Company |
Lynn Johnson | Vice President, Managing Director | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Barry Bounds | Vice President, Marketing | |
Margaret Core CAE | Vice President, Marketing | FMI |
Brian Holt | Vice President, Marketing | |
Jim Fitterer | Vice President, Merchandising | Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
James Johnson | Vice President, Merchandising | |
Bill Lipsky | Vice President, Merchandising | UNFI |
Dan Magnuson | Vice President, Merchandising, Grocery, Frozen Foods, and Dairy | |
Chris Woodbury | Vice President, National Merchandising | C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. |
John White | Vice President, National Warehouse Sales | DFA |
Chuck Munn | Vice President, Non-Perishable Merchandising | Harris Teeter LLC |
Sharon Delaney | Vice President, Procurement | Bozzuto's Inc. |
Rob Cohen | Vice President, Refrigerated and Frozen | Bozzuto's Inc. |
Shane Sgambelluri | Vice President, Regional Accounts Grocery | |
Rob Mayber III | Vice President, Retail Excellence | Kellanova |
Michael Atkins | Vice President, Retail Sales | |
Rich King | Vice President, Retail Sales | Post Consumer Brands |
Curtis Bolden | Vice President, Sales | Conagra Brands |
Jason Edevold | Vice President, Sales | Post Consumer Brands |
Duane Meade | Vice President, Sales | |
Kendi O'Mard | Vice President, Sales | The Clorox Company |
Timothy O'Neill | Vice President, Sales | |
Nicole Juntunen | Vice President, Sales and Marketing | Be Green Packaging LLC |
Jon Albrecht | Vice President, Sales and Merchandising | Acme Fresh Markets |
Joe Mrozek | Vice President, Sales East | |
Cass Black | Vice President, Sales South | Mondelez International |
Michael Klopstein | Vice President, Sales South Region | |
Damon Caton | Vice President, Sales, US Grocery and Retail Execution | Campbell Soup Company |
Jeff Edwards | Vice President, Supply Chain | Bozzuto's Inc. |
Joe Toscano | Vice President, Trade and Industry Development | Nestle Purina PetCare Company |
Christian Albitz | Vice President, U.S. Grocery Sales | |
Greg Hasper | Vice President, Wholesale | |
Gerry Buckles | VP Category Management & Procurement | Associated Grocers, Inc. (LA) |
Patrick Schwab | VP Sales-East-Retail | Hormel Foods Corporation |
Joe Heinert | Zone Operations Manager |