Leading Experts in Experts in the Food & Beverage Council

Peter Klein is the Founder of PK Associates, a growth management consulting firm where he has worked since October 2005. Mr. Klein has over 37 years of business experience in consumer companies and management consulting. He was the Senior Vice President for Strategy, Business Development and Global...

Robert Klugman is currently consulting as SVP of Strategy for First Beverage Capital, a warehouse buy leaseback company for the beverage industry. Prior to that he served as Global Chief Strategy Officer for Molson Coors Brewing Company until his retirement in 2005. In this role, he was responsible...

Rick Kowalski is currently the Chief Operating Officer at It's A Grind Coffee Franchise. He operates over 100 It's A Grind coffee houses that are primarily franchised. The company will double in size over the next year. There are currently seven company-owned It's A Grind locations. Mr. Kowalski is...

Peter Larkin currently is President of Larkin Public Affairs, a company he started in 2008 representing food industry clients and providing services including government relations, issues management, communications, community relations, environmental affairs and industry relations. In addition to Larkin...

Matthew Levine is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Business News, an online publishing and internet news portal, which he founded in 2005. Mr. Levine is a freelance consultant, writer and researcher and a member of EcoSpeakers speaker's bureau and does freelance analysis...

David Maloni is the Principal and Chief Commodity Analyst for American Restaurant Association Inc., a food commodity research, consulting and risk management organization founded in 1996 specifically directly to the US food service industry supply chain. David's areas of expertise include the grain...

Ron Marshall was, from 1998 until March of 2006, Chief Executive Officer of Nash Finch, a US$ 5B wholesale distributor supplying food and nonfood goods to more than 1,500 grocery stores in 27 states and 300 countries. In this role he quadrupled earnings over a six year period, improved EBITDA over 40%...

Jerry Monk was most recently a Director of Retail at Kraft Foods where he worked from 1970 until 2007. Mr. Monk directed and led the retail sales organization for Kraft’s West Area, which involved 6 Regions and approximately 225 Retail Sales Representatives. He managed routing and deployment of resources,...

Dan Nelson is currently an Advisory Board Member with Encore Associates, a strategic advisory, sales & marketing and solutions provider to the food and consumer goods industry, where he has been since 2008. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Chief Operating Officer for General...

Perry Odak was President & CEO of Wild Oats Markets until October 2006. Mr. Odak had oversight for all functions of sales, operations, and development for the 110-unit natural food supermarket chain with annual sales in excess of $1.1B. Prior to this position, he served as President & CEO of Ben & Jerry's...

Art Patch is an Independent Consultant with Encore Associates, a strategic advisory firm, sales and marketing organization, and solutions provider to the national food and consumer goods industry. Most recently, he was the Vice President & General Manager at Food Maxx, a 44 store price impact division...

Tom Pirko is currently the President of Bevmark, a premier food & beverage Industry consulting firm providing strategic counsel to senior management of the world's leading food & beverage companies. Mr. Pirko is an expert on strategic planning, competition, mergers, acquisitions, manufacturing, marketing...

Bill Schauber is a consultant at Encore Associates, a consumer packaged goods consultancy firm. Mr. Schauber is a supply chain and logistics operations executive with emphasis in procurement, distribution, logistics, import/export transportation and manufacturing. Prior, Mr. Schauber has worked with...

Anthony Schiano was the Chairman of Winestore Holdings, a wine retailer. Mr. Schiano is also a founder and director of Integrity Bank. Previously, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Giant Food Stores, a division of Royal Ahold. At Giant Food Stores, Mr. Schiano oversaw all aspects of...

Rick Shea is the President of Shea Marketing Consulting Inc since July 2006, a firm that specializes in providing marketing expertise to CPG companies. He has over 20 years of marketing experience at CPG food companies including Kraft, Unilever, George Weston Bakeries and Malt-O-Meal cereals. Mr. Shea...

Kantha Shelke is a diversified scientist, expediting new product and technology development in food and nutrition. She is the Founder and Principal at Corvus Blue, a consumer packaged goods consultant. Ms. Shelke also chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of a global food brand co., advises as Director...

Jesse Singerman is an Exec Force Associate at Encore Associates, Inc., a food and beverage consulting firm. Mr. Singerman has over 25 years of experience in natural/organic industry experience including wholesale and retail grocery experience. He served as President & CEO of Blooming Prairie Warehouse,...

Charles (Jeff) Stanley is currently the Director of Regional Sales at The Schwan Food Company, a frozen food company, where he has worked since June 2006. Mr. Stanley’s responsibilities include managing all major accounts (Food Lion, Publix, Winn-Dixie, etc.), reviewing sales and financial analyses,...

Brian Stevenson was a Senior Vice President with Interstate Bakeries Corp. until February 2005 when he formed B. Stevenson Associates, LLC a consulting firm. While at IBC, Mr. Stevenson directed the effort to change the way the company did business which included a complete reorganization from the...

Stewart Stolz was recently the Director of Operations at Fenwick Group, LLC dba Panera Bread, where he worked from August 2003 until January 2007. Mr. Stolz has been in the restaurant and retail businesses for over 30 years. His expertise lies in the area of People Development and Fiscal Responsibility....