Fresh Products, LLC. announced the addition of Chris Adams, who will join the Fresh Products team as Executive Vice President of Sales. Adams will report to Doug Brown, President. Reporting to Adams will be Pat Marcanio, Director of Sales - West and Ryan Tomkinson, Director of Sales - East.
Adams comes to Fresh Products following a high achieving career in the Jan/San industry. Starting at Gojo in the 1990s, he helped lead the wide spread adoption of Purell hand sanitizer in both commercial and education markets. Then as VP of Value Chain Development at Lagasse/Essendant, he was a principal in developing and implementing the Value of Wholesaling; (VOW,) proposition dramatically changing how distributors viewed wholesalers. In the last 4 years, Adams worked with Network Services Co. as Executive Director of Value Chain Services.
Adams returns to the manufacturing industry after 16 years with two of the industry’s largest distribution organizations. Adams has pioneered the use of metrics to improve services, grow sales and expand profitability. He has been recognized in the Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Press for his role in applying the Balanced Scorecard strategy.