Learn more about how CPFD is keeping safe during COVID-19 HOME COVID-19 SERVICES ABOUT LOGIN CAREERS CONTACT NEWS TEAM Meet the team at Coastal Pacific Food Distributors that keeps the company growing EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT JEFF P. KING, PRESIDENT & CEO Jeff King was appointed President in May 2019. Since joining CPFD in November 2006, Jeff has become an integral part of Coastal and has prospered in his former key roles as both Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer within the organization. As President & CEO, Jeff will have responsibility for all of the Company’s worldwide operations. In March 2008, Jeff was given the additional role overseeing CPFD's Prime Vendor Food Service Division, where he was responsible for administering contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (DLA TS), formerly the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) in Japan, Singapore, Diego Garcia, the Philippines and as a subcontractor in Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. Jeff has been integral in the writing, submission, and subsequent award of CPFD's key Prime Vendor contracts. Jeff began his career with Cal Pac at the warehouse level and, over the next 10 years at Cal Pac, he assumed increased levels of responsibility and management positions leading to his appointment to Chief Operating Officer, which he held for 8 years prior to the CPFD acquisition. In joining CPFD, Jeff brought his experience from the distribution end as well as the store level operations with the in-store deli and bakeries contract, to include sushi operations throughout the commissaries in the Far East. In addition, the Cal Pac division of CPFD is also the "Prime Vendor" to the Air Force Non-Appropriated Funds MWR activities located throughout the Far East market. Jeff is a member of the American Logistics Association. He has served as President of the ALA Northern California Chapter for 3 years. He was elected to the ALA's National Board of Directors from 2005 through 2010 and again from 2019 through 2020, while in this capacity, served on numerous committees involving issues surrounding the military resale system. Jeff holds a B.S. in Business and Economics from Saint Mary's College of California. TIM TVEITNES, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Tim Tveitnes was appointed COO in May 2019. Previously, Tim had served as Senior Vice President Operations overseeing corporate wide Warehousing, Transportation, Facilities, Loss Prevention and Distribution Services. Tim continues overseeing all of operations along with Customer Service. Tim has been an integral part of CPFD’s Senior Staff since joining the company in 2005 as the Vice President of Distribution. Prior to joining the company Tim served as Sr. Director of Distribution for Longs Drugs in California overseeing all distribution activities for the west coast and Hawaii. Tim has over 40 years of food distribution experience holding positions of increased responsibility with Wetterau, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Spartan Stores, The Copps Corporation and Nash Finch. KEVIN CARPENTER, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Kevin Carpenter is Chief Financial Officer for Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc. (CPFD), responsible for CPFD’s financial management and reporting as well as contributing to the strategic growth and financial strength of the Company. In his earlier roles at CPFD, Kevin held several senior leadership positions including Corporate Controller, Director of Finance and most recently Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining CPFD in 2013, Kevin spent 13 years in public accounting where he worked with CPFD and other companies within the industry as a Senior Manager and CPA providing tax and audit services at Dixon Hughes Goodman (previously Goodman & Company) in Norfolk, Virginia. Together with CPFD and public accounting, Kevin has over 20 years of manufacturing, distribution and government contract industry experience. Kevin holds a B.S. in Business Administration – Accounting from Old Dominion University. MONIKA BERTKE, CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER Monika Bertke joined CPFD in August 1997 as Corporate Controller overseeing CPF's corporate-wide finance and accounting departments. In June 2006 Monika was named Vice President of Finance and an Officer of the Company. Prior to CPFD she held various financial management positions with Fleming Foods in their franchise retail Food-4-Less division. Previous management positions in retail and manufacturing included jobs in procurement, transportation, internal audit and retail sales. Monika earned her M.B.A. from California State University, Sacramento, and her B.S. degree in Agricultural & Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis. CHRIS HOTT, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER Chris Hott joined CPFD in 2016 as Director of Information Technology overseeing its technical infrastructure and systems across multiple distributions centers. Chris was previously consulting for Coastal Pacific and was instrumental in their split of IT operations from a sister distribution company in 2010 and their journey to the cloud starting with Office 365 in 2011. He has assumed roles of increasing responsibility while at CPFD and is now Chief Information Officer. Most recently, Chris has been leading Coastal’s cyber security program and their efforts on NIST 800-171 compliance and DoD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Level 3 certification. Prior to CPFD, Chris worked for an enterprise systems integrator on a team enhancing and upgrading ERP software for manufacturers and distributors. Chris earned his BS degree in Financial Management from Clemson University. RICHARD S. PAGE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT GOVERNMENT & AGENCY AFFAIRS Richard (Rick) Page joined CPFD in April 2009 and is currently the Executive Vice President of Government and Agency Affairs. Rick’s responsibilities include collaborating with industry leaders to identify, develop and pursue opportunities to engage with government officials regarding company or industry initiatives. Rick is also responsible for developing strategies, evaluating pending legislation and agency mandates and building relationships and facilitating communications throughout the supply chain. Prior to his current position, Rick served as CPFD’s Senior Vice President of Customer Services overseeing the expanding CPFD Hawaii commissary distribution as well as identifying and developing business opportunities with the military exchanges. Prior to joining Coastal Pacific, Rick served as Chief Operating Officer with the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) Headquarters in Fort Lee, VA, responsible for worldwide operations and sales for 254 commissaries and 10 Distribution Centers located in 13 countries serving over 12 million authorized customers. During the period of October 2007 through June 2008 he served as the Acting Director. Throughout his 30-year Federal career, Rick served in every facet of commissary operations from Store Director, Region Chief Operations and Merchandising, Zone Manager, Deputy Region Director on three occasions, Acting Region Director and was appointed as a member of the Senior Executive Service in May 2002 as the DeCA West Region Director. Prior to joining the military commissaries, Rick began in the retail food industry (1968-1978) with Alterman Foods in Georgia serving in all areas of retail to include Store Director. Rick has received numerous awards including the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Service Award, DeCA's Distinguished Service Medal (2), DeCA Meritorious Service Medal (3), Navy Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Association DoD Civilian Person of the Year and the Federal Executive of the Year for Central Pennsylvania. Rick holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia and is a member of the American Logistics Association and was elected to the American Logistics Association National Board in 2013, serving as the Vice Chair for 2014-2015 and Chair for 2015-2016. Rick was also a past Chair of the American Logistics Association’s Exchange Council. In 2017 Rick was presented with ALA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. BRIAN MURDOCH, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Brian Murdoch is Executive Vice President for Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc., and is a member of the company’s Executive Management Team. In his role as EVP Brian is responsible for leading the company’s OCONUS & CONUS Prime Vendor (PV) Program and plays an essential role implementing business development for the company. Over the course of over 25+ years at CPFD, Brian has had oversight in the inception and significant expansion and growth of CPFD’s PV program supporting our US Troops “around the globe”, working closely with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (DLA TA), Air Force Non-Appropriated Funds (AFNAF) and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA). In 1995 Brian joined CPFD in conjunction with CPFD’s acquisition of Select Foods, where he was the Head Buyer in charge of both commissary and Lucky Northern CA procurement programs. Brian is a member of the American Logistics Association and Research and Development Associates for the Military Food Industry. SENIOR MANAGEMENT PAT RANGA, VICE PRESIDENT EDI/E-COMMERCE Pat Ranga joined the Coastal Pacific Food Distributors (CPFD) Team in April 2010 as Vice President EDI/E-Commerce to support the rapid growth of CPF EDI initiatives/projects. Prior to this appointment, Pat was the EDI Manager at MDV/Nash Finch with responsibilities to support both MDV and CPFD EDI operations in a joint IT services model. Pat has over 25+ years of experience in project management, implementation, and integration of complex and disparate systems using total automation tools to reduce cost and increase efficiency. His wide ranging expertise includes an in-depth understanding of the Military Re-sale Market and designing systems and processes to support CPFD's critical Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructure. Pat pioneered many innovations at CPFD including direct connect with major DOD agencies via secure protocols (Secure FTP, AS2). This ensured speedier processing of EDI data, reduced cost of processing, and increasing supply chain efficiencies via effective B2B information flow. Pat holds a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering, an MBA from University of Madras in India. He also obtained a M.S. in Information Systems from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Prior to his move to United States, he held a position of Manger-Software Support at Burroughs (Bahamas) Limited. DIVISION MANAGEMENT GEORGE ASHWOOD, DIRECTOR OPERATIONS - STOCKTON DIVISION KEITH BOWDEN, DIRECTOR OPERATIONS - ONTARIO DIVISION MIKE EVELER, GENERAL MANAGER - FIFE DIVISION MARLIN VAN VLEET, GENERAL MANAGER - HAWAII DIVISION TAMARA ANDREWS, CORPORATE DIRECTOR MERCHANDISING FRANK COSTA, DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - RESALE DIVISION ANNE FONG, DIRECTOR AFNAF/MWR VAUGHAN JACKSON, DIRECTOR PRIME VENDOR OPERATIONS ASIA PATTI RYLAND, DIRECTOR DELI/BAKERY/SUSHI JULIE TERREL, DIRECTOR PRIME VENDOR OPERATIONS ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT KATIE HOYT, BUSINESS MANAGER DEBBIE MAY, BUSINESS MANAGER JOE RITORTO, BUSINESS MANAGER STEPHANIE SUPPLEE, BUSINESS MANAGER MICHELLE ALBERTO, PRIME VENDOR PROCUREMENT & BUSINESS MANAGER BOARD ADVISORS MATTHEW PAYNE FRANK PECORARO BILL UNGERMAN TERRY F. WOOD LEARN MORE: TEAM BIOS TEAM CULTURE CORE VALUES SUPPLIER DIVERSITY NEWS PRIVACY COVID-19 © 2020 CPFD