Board of Directors

George Holm was appointed Chairman of Performance Food Group’s Board of Directors in January 2019. George became President & Chief Executive Officer of PFG when it was acquired by Vistar Corporation in May 2008. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vistar, which he founded in 2002. George grew Vistar, a multi-channel food, snack and beverage distributor, into a $3.5-billion company that was purchased by the Blackstone Group, a premier global investment and advisory firm, in 2007. During his 40-year career in the foodservice distribution industry, George has held leadership positions with Alliant Foodservice, US Foods and Sysco Corporation. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Grand Canyon University.

Mr. Fernandez serves as the Managing Director of SI Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on information technology and communications infrastructure. He has held that position with the firm since its inception in 1998. Mr. Fernandez served as Chief Executive Officer of Gartner, Inc., a leading research and advisory company, from 1991 to 1998, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gartner, Inc. from 1991 until 2001. He has also been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of three technology-driven companies: Dataquest, Inc., Gavilan Computer Corporation and Zilog Incorporated. Mr. Fernandez currently serves on the Board of Directors of Leggett & Platt, Incorporated. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Brunswick Corporation from 1997 to 2020, Time, Inc. from 2014 to 2018, Flowers Foods, Inc. from 2005 to 2014 and Sysco Corporation from 2006 to 2013. Mr. Fernandez graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in electrical engineering and completed post-graduate work in solid-state engineering at the University of Florida. Mr. Fernandez currently serves as our Lead Independent Director.

Barbara Beck became a Director in November 2019. Ms. Beck recently retired from her position as the Chief Executive Officer of Learning Care Group, Inc. (LCG), a global for-profit early childhood education provider. She served as Chief Executive Officer of LCG, from March 2011 until June 2019, and currently acts as an advisor to American Securities, the private equity owner of LCG, as a member of the Executive Council of American Securities. Prior to joining LCG, Ms. Beck spent nine years as an executive of Manpower Inc., a world leader in the employment services industry, including as President of Manpower’s EMEA operations from 2006 to 2011. Prior to joining Manpower, Ms. Beck was an executive of Sprint, a global communications company, serving in various operating and leadership roles for 15 years. Since 2008, Ms. Beck has served on the Board of Directors of Ecolab Inc., a global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to food, energy, healthcare, industrial, hospitality and other markets.

William F. Dawson, Jr. has served as a Director since 2002. Mr. Dawson is Chairman and CEO of Northway Partners LLC a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Prior Northway Partners LLC, Mr. Dawson spent 21 years at Wellspring Capital Management Group LLC (“Wellspring”) a leading middle-market private equity firm. He was CEO from 2014-2020 and then Co-Executive Chairman from 2020 to 2021, when he retired from Wellspring. While at Wellspring, he served as the chair of Wellspring’s investment committee since 2004. Mr. Dawson led or co-sponsored several of Wellspring’s most successful investments in distribution, consumer services, business services, healthcare, energy services and industrial companies. Prior to joining Wellspring, Mr. Dawson was a partner at Whitney & Co., where he was head of the middle-market buyout group. Prior to that, Mr. Dawson spent 14 years at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation where he was most recently a managing director at DLJ Merchant Banking. Mr. Dawson received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Laura Flanagan became a director in September 2021. Ms. Flanagan is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Ripple Foods and serves on the board of Callaway Golf and Ripple Foods. She served as Chief Executive Officer of Foster Farms, the West Coast leader in branded and private label poultry, headquartered in Livingston, California, from 2016 to February 2019. She was previously the President of the Snacks Division of ConAgra Foods, Inc., a packaged foods company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, from 2011 until 2014, and served as President of ConAgra’s Convenient Meals Division from 2008 until 2011. Prior to joining ConAgra in 2008, Ms. Flanagan was Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Tropicana® Shelf Stable Juices at PepsiCo Inc. from 2005 to 2008. Ms. Flanagan also held various marketing leadership positions at General Mills, Inc. and PepsiCo Inc. from 1996 to 2005.

Matthew Flanigan became a Director in November 2019. Mr. Flanigan retired in 2019 from his role as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (LEG), a global manufacturer of engineered components and products, where he also served on the Board of Directors for nearly 10 years. Mr. Flanigan was appointed Senior Vice President of Leggett & Platt in 2005 and became Chief Financial Officer in 2003. From 1999 until 2003, he served as President of the Office Furniture and Plastics Components Groups of Leggett & Platt. Mr. Flanigan currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board and Lead Director of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (JKHY), a leading financial technology company. He has served on the Board of Jack Henry & Associates since 2007, and he was appointed Lead Director by the independent directors of Jack Henry & Associates in 2012. Mr. Flanigan is also a member of the Board of Directors of Fast Radius Inc. (FSRD), a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company. He is Chair of the Audit Committee.

Kimberly S. Grant became a director in July 2017. Ms. Grant is the Global Head of Restaurants and Bars for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and is the chief executive leading all worldwide food and beverage operations for the company. Four Seasons currently operates 555 restaurant and bar outlets within 123 hotels and resorts and 46 residential properties in major city centres and resort destinations in 47 countries, with over 50 properties under development. In addition, Ms. Grant is a co-sponsor of FAST Acquisition Corporation, a publicly traded emerging growth company focused on affecting a business combination in the restaurant, hospitality, and related sectors in North America. Ms. Grant previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of ThinkFoodGroup, a global hospitality management company, which owns and operates innovative dining concepts created by two-star Michelin awarded chef José Andrés, from September 2014 to April 2020. Prior to this role, Ms. Grant was the President and Chief Operations Officer of Ruby Tuesday Inc., a publicly traded restaurant company, where she assumed various operations and finance leadership roles over her 21 years. Ms. Grant earned a Master of Science in Banking and Financial Services Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Thomas Edison State University, and she has attended various executive education programs at UC Berkeley School of Law (ESG), Stanford Law School, and Harvard Business School while a Director of Performance Food Group.

Jeffrey Overly has served as Director since 2013. Mr. Overly most recently served as an Operating Partner at The Blackstone Group. Before joining Blackstone in 2008, Mr. Overly was Vice President of Global Fixture Operations at Kohler Company. Prior to that, he served 25 years at General Motors Corporation and Delphi Corporation in numerous operations and engineering positions. Mr. Overly has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters in Business from Central Michigan University. Mr. Overly currently serves on the board of directors of Sona Comstar, PSSI, Schenck Processing, and ILG.

David Singer became a Director in November 2019. Mr. Singer retired in 2013 as the Chief Executive Officer of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of snack foods throughout the United States and internationally. Mr. Singer served as Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Snyder’s-Lance from its formation in 2010 until his retirement in 2013. He was the President and CEO of Lance, Inc. from 2005 until its merger with Snyder’s of Hanover, Inc. in 2010. Mr. Singer also served as a director of Lance, Inc. from 2003 until the merger with Snyder’s. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, a beverage manufacturer and distributor, from 2001 to 2005. Presently, Mr. Singer also serves on the Board of Directors of Brunswick Corporation.

Mr. Spratt most recently served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation, a global pharmaceutical distribution services and information technology company, from 2009 to 2015. Mr. Spratt joined McKesson in 1999 and held various executive positions at McKesson prior to becoming Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, including as Chief Information Officer from 2005 to 2009, Chief Process Officer for McKesson Provider Technologies from 2003 to 2005 and Senior Vice President, Imaging, Technology and Business Process Improvement from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Spratt previously served on the board of directors of Imperva Inc from May 2016 until the company was acquired by Thoma Bravo, LLC in January 2019. Mr. Spratt received a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Utah.

Mr. Thompson became a director in December 2020. Mr. Thompson is Chairman of the Board and President of Thompson Hospitality, a private retail food and facilities management firm. Mr. Thompson founded Thompson Hospitality in 1992. Mr. Thompson began his career with the Marriott Corporation in 1983, where he started with the Restaurant Fast Track Management Development Program and served in 15 positions in nine years, ending as Vice President Operations for the Host Division. Mr. Thompson currently serves on the Board of Directors of Duke Realty Corp. Mr. Thompson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Managerial Economics from Hampden- Sydney College and holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.