Sean Griffin – Chief Executive Officer of SuperValu, Inc. – Email Address

Mr. Sean F. Griffin has been Chief Executive Officer at SuperValu Inc since September 2018 and served as a Head of Integration from August 1, 2018 to September 2018. Mr. Griffin served as Head of Integration at United Natural Foods, Inc. since October 01, 2018. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at United Natural Foods, Inc. from August 1, 2018 until October 01, 2018 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from September 2014 until August 1, 2018 and served as its Group President of Supply Chain, Distribution & National Sales since June 2012. Mr. Griffin served as Senior Vice President of United Natural Foods, Inc. since June 2012. Mr. Griffin served as a Senior Vice President of National Distribution at United Natural Foods, Inc. from January 2010 to June 2012. Mr. Griffin served as President of Springfield Foodservice Corp. Mr. Griffin served as President of East Region Broadline for Performance Food Group Co since January 2009. Mr. Griffin joined Performance Food Group in 2003 and served as its President at PFG - Springfield from 2003 to 2008. Prior to joining Performance Food Group, Mr. Griffin served as Executive Vice President and General Manager for US Foodservice (formerly Alliant Foodservice) in Boston. He has over twenty-eight years in the foodservice industry. He began his career with Sysco Corporation in 1986 and has held various leadership positions in the foodservice distribution industry with U.S. Foodservice, Alliant Foodservice and Sysco Corporation. He has been Director of SuperValu Inc since October 22, 2018.

SuperValu, Inc. is an American retailing company. The corporation, headquartered in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie, Minnesota,^[1] has been in business for over a century. It is the fifth-largest food retailing company in the United States (after Kroger and Albertsons), and ranks in the top 100 on the 2015 Fortune 500 list. Supermarket News ranked SuperValu #1 in the 2008 "Top Wholesalers for 2008".^[2]

On June 2, 2006, Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, Inc. and 1,124 of its stores were sold to SuperValu. The sale was approved by the shareholders of both SuperValu and Albertsons on May 30, 2006. In January 2013, the company announced it was selling the Acme Markets, Shaw's, and Jewel-Osco chains and their remaining Albertsons stores to Cerberus Capital Management for $100 million in cash with Cerberus assuming $3.2 billion in existing debt. SuperValu would keep its Cub, Farm Fresh, Shoppers, Shop ‘n Save and Hornbacher’s brands as well as its wholesale supply operation while the Acme, Shaw's, Star Market, and Jewel-Osco stores were reunited with Albertsons.^[3] The deal closed March 21, 2013.