Food Marketing Institute Elects New Directors to its Board

ARLINGTON, VA – Food Marketing Institute (FMI) introduced new directors to its board during its annual meeting at the in Miami this week. FMI Board Chairman Joe Sheridan, president and COO, Wakefern Food Corp, announced the following appointments.

Incoming Directors

  • John Alston, Brookshire Brothers, Inc.
  • John Derderian, Allegiance Retail Services, LLC
  • Nick Graham, Heartland Markets
  • Chieh Huang, Boxed Wholesale
  • Marc Jones, HAC, Inc.
  • Rob McDougall, Gelson’s Markets
  • Steven Spinner, United Natural Foods, Inc.
  • Tim Steiner, Ocado Group, plc

Returning Directors

  • Robert Baesler, Baesler’s Inc.
  • Reynolds Cramer, Fareway Stores, Inc.
  • Rudy Dory, Newport Avenue Market
  • Greg Gregerson, Gregerson’s Foods, Inc.
  • Thomas Heinen, Heinen’s Grocery Stores
  • Robert Ingle, Ingle’s Markets, Inc.
  • Henry Johnson, W. Lee Flowers & Co., Inc.
  • Omar Jorge Pena, Compare Foods Supermarkets
  • Tres Lund, Lund Food Holdings, Inc.
  • Hendrik Meijer, Meijer, Inc.
  • Jack Shakoor, Jack’s Super Foodtown
  • Dean Peterson, Harmon City, Inc.
  • Colleen Wegman, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
  • Johnathan Weis, Weis Markets, Inc.

New Chairman’s Appointees

  • Wesley Eubanks, The Pictsweet Company
  • Valerie Oswalt, CEO, Century Snacks

The purpose of the FMI Board is to promote and carry out the objectives and purposes of FMI; to represent the total and varied membership of FMI; to establish major policies for FMI; to demonstrate a model of an active, participative and sharing membership; to appoint the president; and to provide industry leadership.

A full member listing of FMI’s leadership can be found here.

To review a microsite and video summarizing FMI 2018 accomplishments, visit http://www.FMI.org/YearInReview

About FMI

As the food industry association, FMI works with and on behalf of the entire industry to advance a safer, healthier and more efficient consumer food supply chain. FMI brings together a wide range of members across the value chain — from retailers that sell to consumers, to producers that supply food and other products, as well as the wide variety of companies providing critical services — to amplify the collective work of the industry. www.FMI.org