Affiliates / Alliances

Affiliates

Pentallect has aligned with a number of well-known food industry leaders as affiliates of the firm. These affiliates provide issue-specific thought leadership and strategic counsel to the Pentallect management team and are available to assist with client engagements as needed.

Pentallect Affiliates include:

Chris K. Davis spent 30+ years with Sysco in finance and operations leadership roles, advancing to President at a struggling OPCO where he pioneered processes that led to his being called to spearhead Sysco’s numerous centralization, technology, and business transformation initiatives.  Chris led Sysco’s multi-year financial and shared services transformation, capturing over $30 million in annual cost savings while gaining one-of-a-kind experience at using technology to lower expenses and improve performance.

Mike Roach is an industry expert in foodservice distribution and the transformation of the foodservice supply chain. He is the former President of Ben E Keith Foods, the nation’s eighth largest foodservice distributor, and served as Executive Vice President of its parent, Ben E Keith Company.

Bob Sala provides expertise on foodservice distribution including business strategy, supply chain management, strategic alliance development and strategic sales and marketing. Bob is the founder, former CEO and a member of the board of Distribution Market Advantage, Inc. (DMA), a foodservice distributor-owned marketing and services company that provides restaurant chains with national distribution and supply chain solutions. He led the development and deployment of DMA’s e-Advantage cloud-based order management, data analytics and inventory management system.

Alliances

Pentallect is engaged with leading food industry associations to share insights and perspectives, jointly assess evolving industry dynamics and trends, and to serve as a resource to the associations’ leadership and members to support industry growth. Pentallect has also developed unique products and services specifically tailored to members of associations.