NGA Names New Board Members

The National Grocers Association (NGA) board of directors approved the appointment of four prominent industry figures to fill four unexpired terms recently left vacant.

The appointees are Christine Curtis, SVP and account management, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Keene, N.H; Jake Fontenot, SVP sales and merchandising, The Grocers Supply Co. Inc., Houston; Omar Khalaf, VP industry development, Kraft Foods Global Inc., Northfield, Ill.; and Bob McTeir, president, Merchant Distributors LLC, Hickory, N.C.

“Their many years of industry experience and expertise will be an asset to our board and NGA as an organization,” said Joe Sheridan, president and COO of Wakefern Food Corp., in Keasbey, N.J., and chairman of the board of the Arlington, Va.-based trade association.