Leadership at Reyes Holdings
Reyes Holdings' success reflects the experience and expertise of its leadership team. Each member of the team brings years of professional experience, industry knowledge and ethical commitment making Reyes Holdings a leader in logistics and distribution as well as in the business communities in which the company operates.
Reyes Holdings Executive Team
The Martin-Brower Company Executive Team
Reinhart FoodService Executive Team
Reyes Beverage Group Executive Team
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Dean H. Janke, Executive Vice President Business Development, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Dean Janke is Executive Vice President Business Development for Reyes Holdings. He is responsible for business development and overseeing the integration of Reyes Holdings' acquisitions. He joined Reyes Holdings in 1986 after spending nearly ten years at KPMG in the Private Business Advisory Service group. Since then, Dean Janke has played a role in every major acquisition undertaken by Reyes Holdings including more than 50 completed transactions.
During his tenure, Dean Janke has held a variety of positions relating to finance, operations and business development within the organization. In 1992, Dean Janke led the successful effort to diversify Reyes Holdings' ownership interests into the foodservice distribution industry with the acquisition of Joseph Webb Foods. In 1994, he led an acquisition team that successfully completed three fold-in acquisitions doubling the size of Harbor Distributing, and in 2005, he led a team in negotiating the largest acquisition to date for Reyes Holdings with the purchase of Reinhart FoodService in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 2006, he managed ten acquisitions increasing run-rate sales volume for the organization and broadening the territory for each division.
Dean Janke is a Trustee for Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Accountancy.
Daniel P. Doheny, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Daniel Doheny is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Reyes Holdings, overseeing all financial aspects of the business including acquisitions, financing, internal controls and reporting, capital investments and budgeting. He also plays a key role in strategy development, information technology, real estate and human resources.
Prior to joining Reyes in 2000, Dan Doheny spent more than 16 years with KPMG LLP in Chicago, IL and Montvale, NJ, six years as an audit partner. While with KPMG, he established, and was Partner in charge of, the Audit Committee Institute.
Dan Doheny serves as director on a number of civic and business organizations in Chicago. He is on the Board of Directors of the Special Olympics Illinois and Junior Achievement. He is also President of the Chicago Chapter of the Lumen Institute and a member of the University of Illinois Illini Leadership Council. Additionally, Dan Doheny is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Economic Club of Chicago, Financial Executives International and the University of Illinois President's Council. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in accountancy and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Nicholas L. Giampietro, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Nicholas L. Giampietro is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Reyes Holdings, L.L.C. He joined Reyes Holdings in 2001. Nick Giampietro is responsible for the overall delivery of legal services to Reyes Holdings and its various businesses and supports Reyes Holdings' active mergers and acquisitions practice.
Nick Giampietro has participated in transactions in more than 30 countries and is fluent in Italian. Before Reyes Holdings, he served as Vice President - Mergers & Acquisitions of Moore Corporation Limited where his responsibilities included structuring and negotiating acquisitions, dispositions and strategic alliances in the United States as well as Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Moore, he was Vice President & Senior International Counsel of Brown-Forman Corporation where he served as a member of the Advancing Markets Group senior leadership team and was responsible for the delivery of legal services to Brown-Forman and its operating units. Nick Giampietro began his legal career at the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom where he maintained offices in Chicago and Hong Kong engaging in a broad domestic and international corporate practice that included mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and corporate finance.
Nick Giampietro serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and as a director of the Corporate Counsel Institute of Northwestern University School of Law. He is also a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Association for Corporate Growth, Justinian Society of Lawyers, American Bar Association and Illinois Bar Association. Nick Giampietro graduated as class valedictorian at Notre Dame with a degree in business administration and is a certified public accountant. He earned his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law.
Anjoo Rai-Marchant, Chief Information Officer, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Anjoo Rai-Marchant is the Chief Information Officer for Reyes Holdings, L.L.C. overseeing all of Reyes Holdings information technology operations.
She joined Reyes Holdings in 2008 with over fifteen years experience as an IT professional working for global companies based in the US, Europe and Asia. Anjoo Rai-Marchant’s experience includes direct management of all aspects of technology, including application development, infrastructure and project management. Most recently she was with Barclays Capital working in their technology department based in the UK, as Global Head of Relationship Management and Head of Management Information and Process Improvement. Prior to that, she worked at Macromedia (now Adobe Systems) and Ernst & Young.
Anjoo Rai-Marchant is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). She speaks French and is fluent in Hindi. Anjoo Rai-Marchant graduated from the University of Akron and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Kristin Hayes, Senior Vice President Business Development, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Kristin Hayes is Senior Vice President Business Development for Reyes Holdings responsible for sourcing synergistic distribution acquisitions. She joined Reyes Holdings in 2007 from food retailer, SUPERVALU, where, as the Chief Strategy Officer, she led the strategy development for several major acquisitions, including crafting the initial valuation and deal structure for the retail acquisition of Albertson’s. Prior to SUPERVALU, Kristin Hayes was Director, Corporate Strategy for Motorola; Director, Strategy for SEARS; Consultant to senior management for McKinsey and Co.; Founder and President of Spectrum Center for Integrated Care; and an analyst for Salomon Brothers Inc.
Kristin Hayes is a fluent German speaker who has traveled extensively visiting 51 countries. She was a teacher to Kenya's Masai Mara tribe, worked as a staff reporter for the Japan Times in Tokyo and was a Rotary Scholar and Parliamentary intern in Germany. Kristin Hayes graduated from Princeton University and holds an MBA from Harvard.
Jeff Carlsen, Vice President of Human Resources, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Jeff Carlsen is Vice President of Human Resources for Reyes Holdings. He joined Reyes Holdings in 2003 after spending over 20 years in various positions in Compensation, Benefits, M &A and Human Resources. Most recently he served for four years as a senior member of a Compensation & Benefits / Business Integration & Divestiture practice in one of the “Big Four” public accounting firms. Over the course of his career, he has been engaged in more then 200 transactions in many industries with a primary focus on consumer products. In his prior positions he has integrated such M&A transactions as Nestlé’s purchase of Ralston Purina; Hitachi’s purchase of IBM’s disc drive business. His skills have helped him lead Reyes Holdings HR team in both due diligence and integration on multiple transactions.
Jeff Carlsen has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting and economics from the University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business as well as a Juris Doctor from Drake University Law School.
Joseph DeJean, Vice President Finance, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Joe DeJean is Vice President of Finance for Reyes Holdings, responsible for finance and accounting for Reyes Beverage Group. He joined Reyes Holdings in 2000 with 26 years of business experience in various industries including distribution, manufacturing, direct mail and public accounting.
Prior to joining Reyes Holdings, Joe DeJean was Controller and Vice President of Finance for Maurice Sporting Goods, a privately-held sporting goods distributor that provides category management services to mass merchants such as WalMart, Kmart and Sears. He was also a Controller and Assistant Treasurer for GRI Corporation, a publicly held direct mail company, Tax Manager and Internal Auditor for Clevite Industries and a Public Accountant with Blumenfeld, Weiser, Friedman and Company.
Joe DeJean is a member of the AICPA and the Illinois CPA Society. He earned a degree in accounting from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Kurt J. Roemer, Vice President and Treasurer, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Kurt J. Roemer is Vice President and Treasurer of Reyes Holdings, L.L.C. responsible for the company's financing activities, interest rate and commodity risk management, and cash management. Prior to joining Reyes in 2002, he spent more than 17 years with Heller Financial, a Chicago based commercial finance company where he was Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. During his tenure with Heller, Kurt Roemer was responsible for a broad range of Treasury areas including Capital Markets, Derivatives, International Treasury Operations, Foreign Exchange trading, and Cash Management. Kurt Roemer graduated in 1983 from the University of Illinois with a degree in Accountancy.
Peter A. Swan, Senior Vice President Corporate Finance, Reyes Holdings, L.L.C.
Peter Swan is Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance for Reyes Holdings. He is responsible for the financial aspects of acquisitions, consolidations, external reporting, budgeting and payroll. He also plays a key role in financing, capital investments and taxes.
Pete Swan has more than 22 years of experience in accounting and finance beginning with KPMG where he provided audit and business consulting services to middle-market manufacturers and distributors in the Private Business Advisory Service group. After joining Reyes Holdings in 1993, Pete Swan performed a variety of financial functions including financial due diligence on Reyes Holdings beer and food acquisitions. In 1998, he played a key role in the successful acquisition of Martin-Brower, which he later served as the Senior Vice President of Finance overseeing many of its financial functions from 2000 until through early 2005. Beginning with Pete Swan’s return to the Reyes Holdings corporate level in 2005, he served as the financial lead for the largest acquisition to date for Reyes Holdings with the purchase of Reinhart FoodService in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 2006, he played a significant role in ten acquisitions increasing run-rate sales volume for the organization and broadening the territory for each division.
Pete Swan is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois Certified Public Accountants Society. He graduated from Bradley University with a degree in Accountancy.
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Gregory A. Nickele, President & CEO, The Martin-Brower Company, L.L.C.
Gregory Nickele is President and Chief Executive Officer for The Martin-Brower Company, L.L.C. He joined the company in 2002 as President of Martin-Brower's US Operations. Before joining Martin-Brower, he was the President of Field Operations for Alliant Foodservice, Inc. (formerly Kraft Foodservice) in Deerfield, Illinois, which had revenues of $6 billion. Greg Nickele began his career in 1990 with Alliant Foodservice as General Sales Manager in Denver and has held several senior executive positions in sales, marketing and operations with Alliant Foodservice. Before joining Alliant Foodservice he was Director of Sales at Sysco Corporation.
Greg Nickele is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA) and serves on the Board of Hub One Logistics. He is also a member of the Board of Managers for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. He graduated from Triton College in River Grove, Illinois with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management.
John A. Roussel, US President, The Martin-Brower Company, L.L.C.
John Roussel is the US President of Martin-Brower's domestic operations. Prior to this role, John Roussel served as Martin-Brower's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He also serves on the board of Hub One Logistics and is an officer of several companies within Martin-Brower. Prior to joining Martin-Brower, John Roussel spent 15 years at Georgia Pacific (formerly Fort James), most recently as Vice President, Finance for the Away from Home Business. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Finance for Operations and Logistics. He also held various other assignments within Georgia Pacific's consumer products business. Among other affiliations, John Roussel is a member of Financial Executives International. He graduated from Bentley College with a B.S. in Finance and holds an M.B.A. from Louisiana State University.
Peter Hobbes, President Martin-Brower Canada
Peter Hobbes is President of Martin-Brower Canada as well as an Officer with two other Martin-Brower companies and the Chairman of McDonald's Canadian Supplier Leadership Team. He joined Reyes Holdings as President of Martin-Brower Canada in 2002 and has over 25 years of foodservice operations experience.
Previously, Peter Hobbes was Vice President and General Manager for Campbell's Soup Away from Home division following a role as the company's Vice President of Marketing for North America. Prior to that, he worked for Pepsi Canada, advancing to Director of Business Development from National Account Sales Manager. Additionally, he worked for J.M. Schneider Foods and Keg Restaurants earlier in his career. Peter Hobbes holds an HBA in Economics from York University, has certificates of attainment from The Culinary Institute of America: Napa and Johnson and Wales Culinary School and is currently completing his MBA at Western University.
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Mark Drazkowski, Chief Executive Officer, Reinhart FoodService, L.L.C.
Mark Drazkowski, President and CEO of Reinhart FoodService, has had overall senior operating executive responsibilities at Reinhart FoodService since 1976 when the company had less than 30 employees and sales revenues of only six million dollars. He currently oversees all facets of the business. Previously, he was in public accounting with Alexander Grant & Company and a Corporate Financial Audit Manager for Honeywell, Inc.
Mark Drazkowski has served as a Director on numerous foodservice industry boards for many years. Currently, he serves as a Director on the Boards of Independent Marketing Alliance (IMA), Markon and the International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA). He has served in the past as Chairman of the Board for Markon and for Distribution Market Advantage (DMA). He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Boyd F. Jordan, President, Reinhart FoodService, L.L.C.
Boyd Jordan is Chief Operating Officer for Reinhart FoodService, L.L.C. He joined Reinhart FoodService in 1982 in a sales capacity, and has since held a number of Sales Management positions including Corporate Director of Sales in La Crosse, WI before becoming Division General Manager for Reinhart's Milwaukee Distribution Center. Boyd Jordan currently has responsibility and oversight for all Reinhart Distribution Centers, Corporate Multi-Unit Accounts, Corporate Contract Management, Corporate Transportation and Warehousing departments. He is responsible for maintaining the key relationships and business development at the highest levels with Reinhart's largest multi-unit account customers. Boyd Jordan represents Reinhart FoodService on the Board of Directors for Distribution Market Advantage (DMA) and is a past Chairman of the Board and its Executive Committee.
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Raymond M. Guerin, Chief Operating Officer, Reyes Beverage Group
Raymond M. Guerin is Chief Operating Officer for Reyes Beverage Group. He has held leadership roles across Reyes Holdings with responsibility for operations in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America and South America since joining the company in 1994 with nearly 20 years of engineering, marketing and manufacturing operations experience.
Ray Guerin directs the acquisition strategy and day-to-day business operations for Reyes Beverage Group. ??Before his current role, he held the following positions within the company: President of Chicago Beverage Systems, President, CEO and COO for Martin-Brower, and Reyes Holdings' Executive Vice President of Operations. Prior to joining Reyes Holdings, Ray Guerin spent 18 years with General Foods/Kraft Foods, in charge of operations for the Dover, Delaware facility, then the largest food building ever built. He also held Brand Management positions and became Kraft's Vice President of Operations, responsible for 15 Kraft facilities where he instituted "Total Quality Management", a statistical process control that achieved millions of dollars of cost savings for Kraft Foods.
Ray Guerin is on the Board of Directors for Lake Forest Bank and Trust Company. He is a member of the distributor council for Coors, Crown, Heineken USA and Guinness. Ray Guerin graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering and holds a Masters of Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Thomas A. Reyes, President, Harbor Distributing, L.L.C. and Gate City Beverage Distributors
Thomas Reyes, President of Harbor Distributing, L.L.C. and Gate City Beverage Distributors, has held various sales, marketing and operations positions in his ten years at the company. He started his career, at Reyes Holdings and in the beer business, as a route driver for Premium Distributors of Virginia.
He is a board member of the California Beer and Beverage Distributors, and is active in the National Beer Wholesaler's Association and the Brewers Association of America. Tom Reyes is also a member of Diageo's Distributor Advisory Council. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
James J. Doney, President, Chicago Beverage Systems
James J. Doney, President of Chicago Beverage Systems, L.L.C., has been in the business of distributing beer for over 30 years and he has been with Chicago Beverage Systems for 25 years. Before joining CBS, he worked in beer sales at distributorships in San Francisco and suburban Chicago. Jim Doney is a professional and passionate leader having worked in every capacity throughout Chicago Beverage Systems and in each of its market areas.
Jim Doney is highly involved in organizations promoting the growth and welfare of Chicago. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau and is a member of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Jim Doney supports the health of the US beverage industry as a member of the National Beer Wholesalers Association, Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois and the Illinois Licensed Beverage Association. He is the President of the Chicago Beer Wholesalers Association and Vice Chairman of the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois. Jim Doney is also a member of several major brewery advisory councils including the Miller Brewing Company Distributor Council and a Coors KEG Group. He graduated from the University of Delaware.
John Zeltner, President, Premium Distributors of Virginia, L.L.C.
John Zeltner, President of Premium Distributors of Virginia, L.L.C., has been with Premium Distributors of Virginia for over 20 years and in the business of distributing beer for more than 30 years.
Before joining Premium Distributors of Virginia, John Zeltner worked at both Anheuser Busch and Schlitz beer distributorships in Virginia. He is Vice Chairman of the Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association and Chairman of the Political Action Committee for the Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association. He is a former coach and fundraiser for the Southwest Youth Association and a fundraiser for the Sunshine Foundation, MDA and the American Heart Association. He supports the health of the US beer industry as a member of the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the Brewers Association of America. He is a graduate of St. Thomas University (formerly Biscayne College).
Robert Johnston, President, Premium Distributors of Washington, DC, L.L.C. and Premium Distributors of Maryland, L.L.C.
Robert Johnston, President of Premium Distributors of Maryland, L.L.C. and President of Premium Distributors of Washington, DC, L.L.C., has been in the business of distributing beer for nearly 30 years. He has been with Premium Distributors of Washington, DC, for nearly ten years bringing extensive industry experience to the organization having worked for major brewers Anheuser Busch and Guinness as well as other beer distributors before joining Reyes Holdings.
He began his career at Anheuser Busch in their Southeast region as District Manager and progressing to the position of Anheuser Busch's Southeast Region Marketing Coordinator before becoming General Manager of the Anheuser Busch distributorship in Chantilly, Virginia. He held General Manager positions with an Anheuser Busch distributorship in D.C. and a prominent import distributorship in Florida before joining Guinness Import Company as Vice President of Business Development. Bob Johnston originally joined Reyes Holdings as President of Premium Distributors of Washington, D.C., and today continues in that role in addition to his position as President of Premium Distributors of Maryland.
Bob Johnston promotes the growth and welfare of business in Washington, DC, and the surrounding area as well as the overall beer industry. He is a former Director of the National Beer Wholesalers Association and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Beer and Wine Wholesaler's Association of Washington, DC. He is a member of the DC Chamber of Commerce, DC Tourism and Convention Bureau and the Brewer's Association of America. He holds both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Psychology and Counseling from the College of William and Mary.
Patrick Collins, President and General Manager Lee Distributors
Patrick Collins, President and General Manager of Lee Distributors, has been with Reyes Holdings for over 12 years and in the business of distributing beer for more than 20 years. He worked for Miller Brewing Company in various sales positions before joining Chicago Beverage Systems where he was Vice President of Sales, instrumental in maintaining Chicago Beverage System’s high marketshare in the country’s third largest beer market.
Patrick Collins is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he was a four-year letterman playing football from 1984-1988 and a member of the 1985 national championship team.
