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| MEET THE PANEL Every Team member listed on this site has multi years experience working in the foodservice, retail, Grocery, vending, c-store, and industrial channels from National Chains to independant restaurants and retailers, managing mutiple departments, personnel, brokers, and distributors, responsible for purchaising machinery, brochures, raw materials, and IT related equipment. Each has made a significant achievement within the industry and in doing so is now offering a way to give back, by allowing any individual to correspond, privately, or public, to gain information for your own personal or professional growth, to create a positive outcome.
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Cary Miller,Vice President Food industry News Cary Miller has been working in the food industry for over 30 years, and is now Vice president of Food industry News, the best read food industry trade magazine in the Chicago food industry. As a youngster his desire and career goal was to be a butler so that he could serve people. This was his passion then, and continues to this day. After studying hospitality industry administration in college, the early years of Cary's career was spent as a kitchen manager/chef, followed by managing the front of the house operations. Each management review encouraged him to seek a sales position. One day, when taking a break, reading Food Industry News, Cary decided to contact the publisher to discuss the opportunities of coming to work at Food Industry News. That was in 1988. Since Cary knew little about marketing and advertising, he read veraciously, attended seminars, adopted marketing mentors (Jay Conrad Levenson and Sir Roy Williams) and through the passion to serve, began helping food industry suppliers market their products and services to buyers in the Chicagoland food industry and beyond. Today Cary's service to the industry continues by providing sound help and creativity in helping suppliers to increase sales and market share. His client base includes small to large suppliers, local, national and international in scope. He also serves on several boards and committees, including the board of the Chicago Chef's hall of Fame and Culinary Museum. He is also past president of the Chicago Foodservice Marketing Association, (formerly known as the CFMC). He's also a member of the Les Amis d' Escoffier Society of Chicago, (an elite group of culinarians dedicated to preserve the traditions of French Cuisine) and was bestowed the honor of becoming a Disciple of Escoffier in 2007.
 Arthur Reingold,Founder/President AJES Group, LLC Arthur Reingold is the Founder/President of AJES Group, LLC and has 25 years of marketing and sales experience. AJES Group is a business development firm focused on helping companies grow through innovative business and marketing strategy development. He has an outstanding track record of delivering profitable growth by creating new brands / businesses, turning around troubled brands, and growing mature brands. Arthur has expertise across new product development, brand marketing and management, business strategy, and sales. Prior to founding the AJES Group, Arthur was Vice President of New Product Development for Kraft Foods where he led a turnaround of their Cheese and Dairy Sector’s new product performance. Before that, he was Vice President of Business Development for the Cheese, Meals, and Enhancers Sector where he created, staffed and led a new business development team in support of a new structure. During his seventeen-year career at Kraft, he held numerous brand management positions on both large and small businesses where he was successful at developing outstanding brand strategies and marketing plans. Perhaps Arthur’s most recognizable accomplishment at Kraft was leading the development, launch and expansion of DiGiorno Rising Crust Pizza. This new product created a new premium segment in the frozen pizza category and has been recognized in the press as “Kraft’s last big idea”. It is currently a $500MM business for Kraft and the number one frozen pizza. For his strong leadership and vision on DiGiorno Pizza, he received numerous industry and Kraft awards. He was named one of the “Top 100 Marketers” by Advertising Age, while Food and Beverage recognized him as their “Brand Manager of the Year”. Additionally, he received an Edison award for outstanding advertising from the American Marketing Association. Arthur was also a three-time winner of the Kraft Superior Achievement Award, Kraft’s highest award. Prior to Kraft, Arthur spent time with Coca-Cola USA in their field sales organization where we worked closely with bottlers to grow their soft drink business. During his time at Coca-Cola he learned the importance of brand equity as he introduced New Coke into a sales area that had the highest Coca-Cola Classic shares in the country. Arthur received his MBA from Georgia State University, where he also served as the Director of Marketing for their highly ranked Executive MBA Program, and earned his BA from the University of Tennessee. He and his wife are the proud parents of two children and two dogs.
 David Kaplan, Founder, Executive Director, Alliance for School Foodservice Leadership David has over 15 years of corporate sales and marketing experience and is currently Executive Director of the Alliance for School Foodservice Leadership, a national “think tank” comprised of the most innovative school foodservice directors and leading manufacturers. David and his Alliance for School Foodservice Leadership team have led the development of sales and marketing initiatives for Fortune 500 clients. The centerpiece of all Alliance initiatives is the inclusion of “value added” elements which are specially designed to provide solutions to meet the core needs of school foodservice directors and provide extra benefit beyond price and product. Clients include Nestle Hand Held Foods Group, Cadbury Schweppes, FWE, Carnation Instant Breakfast and Juicy Juice. In his 10+ years at The Coca-Cola Company, David held positions in K-12 School Channel Sales and Marketing, brand management, and consumer promotions. During his tenure on the $1 billion Coca-Cola school channel business, David led the team to a leadership position and created a strategy that featured the deployment of resources to educators designed to enhance student achievement. David is also proud to have a long time association with the Education Research Development Institute (ERDI), an organization of Superintendents and Education Suppliers dedicated to enhancing education. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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