Sandy has more than 35 years of experience in the wholesale and retail grocery marketing field. Prior to her retirement from Safeway as Director of Specialty Marketing, Sandy was charged with building a centralized specialty foods team at Safeway and with consolidating purchasing into a national distributor network. She is an expert in ethnic, natural, and gourmet foods and in developing demographically focused programs through specialty foods. Additionally, Sandy has many years experience leading the marketing programs for a chain of price impact stores. Sandy was the first woman inducted into the Sales Manager’s Club of San Francisco Hall of Fame in 2002.