Kara Gordon Warren has been appointed to the board of directors of Gordon Food Service, effective October 2016. Warren will be the first fifth-generation member of the Gordon family to join the board. She is the daughter of CEO Jim Gordon.
Warren is currently the assistant general manager for the company’s Florida division and will become the division’s general manager in April 2017.
Warren attended Taylor University and worked outside the family business at a Chicago publishing company after graduation. She began her career at Gordon Food Service in 2003 as a sales representative, first in Chicago and then in Grand Rapids, Mich. She joined the company’s category management team in 2007. She was named director of ebusiness in 2011, director of business transformation in 2013 and marketing director for the Great Lakes division in 2014.
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