About Us

Board and Advisors

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Warren Ache

Warren has considerable experience in executive management and business leadership acquired from a lengthy and diverse business career with a major international company. Following graduation from the University of Colorado with separate degrees in engineering physics and business finance, and following military service where he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal as a Combat Engineering Officer, he joined the Royal Dutch/Shell family of companies in their agricultural/animal health business center. Following assignments in a variety of business disciplines including engineering, finance, sales, marketing, and general business administration, he was appointed CFO and/or CEO of many RD/S subsidiary companies in diverse business areas including plastics/resins, catalysts, process technologies, metal products, and fine chemicals. Warren considers this diversity of management experiences as his most valuable attribute; i.e., he is a generalist rather than a specialist. Towards the end of his career, he became a Director of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures and completed numerous transactions. Following his career with RD/S, Warren founded, and later sold to Sprint, a successful telecommunications company. Currently, he serves as an elected Director and Board Member of two local government entities and also his community Owners Association.

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Joseph Garry

During a career spanning over forty years in the insurance industry, Joe was intricately involved in all facets of growing and managing a highly successful agency. Sales, personnel management, the oversight of marketing, accounting and automation systems were all achieved skills. During his career, the acquisition and sales of other agencies required strong negotiation skills. He was recognized as a “Hall of Fame” agent with the Allied insurance Group for sales growth. He also cultivated and maintained strong relationships with a number of insurance companies of various specialties.

After graduation from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Business Administration, Joe started and ended his career with Garry Insurancenter and is still involved with the firm in St Paul. Involvement with various civic organizations, serving as a board member of the St Paul Independent Agents Association and working with youth sports activities were also strong interests.

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Jay Sunderman

Jay Sunderman is a sixth-generation farmer operating in SW Iowa. Mr. Sunderman owns and operates Sunderman Farms and Feed Lot with 5,000 acres of primarily corn and soybean cash crops. Jay’s multi-faceted feed lot raises cattle as well. As a seasoned veteran of the many challenges and opportunities facing agriculture in America today, Mr. Sunderman brings a wealth of industry knowledge and relationships through various agricultural Boards and CO-OP memberships he is involved with. While Mr. Sunderman enjoys a past-time of restoring and showing antique tractors reminiscent of days gone by, he is also a keen observer of the role technology solutions play that are so necessary to mitigate risk and promote efficiencies within the farming vocation. As a successful business operator, Mr. Sunderman recognizes the critical nature of safe food products being delivered by the farming community to the consuming market that not only meet USDA and FDA compliance regulations but in fact excel in quantity and quality. Acknowledging this, Mr. Sunderman has a vested interest into FCMI’s unique farm-to-fork technologies and solutions that provide next generation enhancement opportunities.

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Thomas Kresky

Thomas Lawrence Kresky as spent the last forty years in the Hospitality Industry. Thomas owned and operated a multi-million steakhouse for fourteen years in Wisconsin. Mr. Kresky has managed other twenty million dollars per year restaurants located in California. As a senior executive in Las Vegas for over thirty years, Tom managed multiple casino facilities and was responsible for all facets of casino operations. Thomas was also responsible for the new startup of Las Vegas’s first Micro Brewery business.

With the Las Vegas market extremely saturated with food distributors, restaurants and food custodians, Mr. Kresky’s network relationships with owners, executive managers, and corporate chefs make Tom’s representation of FCMI extremely valuable. Tom’s relationship with Casino owners goes beyond Las Vegas with owners in control of Casinos throughout North America.

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Steve Montgomery

Steve is the President and owner of B2B Solutions, a professional services and consulting group servicing the retail environment. He has over 35 years of experience that spans top management positions in both entrepreneurial and large corporate business environments. He has served as President and Member of the Board of Directors for the 1000 food retail store Dairy Mart Corporation, General Manager for Convenience Stores and Manager of Convenience Retail Strategies and Programs for Amoco Oil Company. Mr. Montgomery is the only person to have been elected to the Retailer Board and Supplier Board of Directors of NACS. Steve is a regular contributor to articles on the convenience retail/petroleum marketing channel and is a frequent speaker at industry functions. He has worked with NACS as a Program Director and Program Moderator on topics ranging from Foodservice to Non-Traditional Competitors.

Steve is a member of Retail Wire’s Brain Trust, Expert 360, GLG Research Council, and the Convenience Retailing University Advisory Council. He is a former member of the Convenience Store Education Council and served for several years as a member of International Business Advisory Board of Western New England University. He holds a BS Degree in Agricultural and Food Economics from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA in Marketing from Western New England University

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James Balestra

Jim’s career of over 30 years has been as a Senior Executive in the fields of global transportation and logistics, cold supply chain management, telematics and security technology, and venture capital.

James founded Big Sky Partners International over ten years ago. He was the Founder and President of CF Forwarding, a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Freightways, Executive Director Special Commodities American President Lines, Managing Director International Roadway Express, Vice President of International Americold Logistics, Managing Partner CNF Ventures, Chief Operating Officer of Safefreight Technology, and Senior Vice President of USA Latium Fleet Management.

Jim earned his BA from LaSalle University and holds post-graduate degrees from Columbia University and the University of New Mexico.

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Scott Turner

Scott is the President of Turner Consulting, Inc., a full-service Warehouse Solution company specializing in warehouse design & layout, Logistical Change consulting and Technology Implementation. He is also the President of WareSys, Inc., a company that offers Temperature Monitoring systems and Technology products for the foodservice industry. His experience with food service-related distributors/warehouses spans 30 years with a strong understanding of the

operational issues related to increased productivity/efficiency, technology, food safety, and regulatory compliance. Turner Consulting has assisted numerous companies in changing the way they operate their business, from the owner level to the warehouse floor.

Scott was also a General Contractor for 11 years and spent part of his career in Railroad as a Marketing Manager in Petroleum and as a Product Manager, Product Development Manager & Channel Manager in the Telecommunication and Internet industries. He holds a Bachelor of

Individualized Studies from the University of Minnesota and an MBA – Organizational Management from the University of Colorado.

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David Marshall

David Marshall has been in the Hospitality Industry for over 35 years, working coast to coast managing food and beverage operations for organizations such as The Westin San Diego to The Hotel Viking in Newport Rhode Island. Mr. Marshall’s experiences also include opening new accounts for the Bon Appetit Management Company at the St. Louis Art Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Royal Caribbean Corporate Offices and Cerner World Headquarters.  Managing diversified hospitality operations and teams within the food industry has positioned David to acquire significant understanding of the need and benefits to creating innovative policies that drive efficiencies and sustainability for organizations. Acknowledging that the industry is in search of solutions for opportunistic change and not simply by means of acquiring analytical data, Mr. Marshall has joined the FCMI team that does provide proprietary solutions for its food industry clients.