Executives
Michael Sears
President & CEO
Michael is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is now residing in New Jersey. He has years of expertise in the C-Store, Travel Retail, and the Higher Education classes of trade. After leading our sales team in all channels for many years, Michael took the role of President and CEO in November of 2021.
Christa Oderkirk
Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Christa Oderkirk lives in Western New York. She has a background in management, sales and marketing coupled with over 30 years of convenience store experience and product knowledge. Christa took over role as Vice President in December 2021.
Lisa Kelly
Chief Financial Officer
Lisa Kelly joined the S&S family in September of 2021 with 19 years of financial experience in accounting, financial planning, financial modeling, system implementations, and M&A. She is graduated from Siena College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and received her MBA from Sage Colleges of Albany.
Travel & Higher Education Team
Patrick Corcoran
Sr. National Account Manager
Patrick lives in Pennsylvania and comes to us with experience from C-Store distribution, Travel retail and C-Store broker areas of our industry. He brings strong relationship building, promotion development, and data analysis.
Mike Maslen
National Account Manager
Mike joins S&S with more than 25+ years’ experience in the Retail, C-Store Wholesale Distribution and Broker businesses, working on all major categories within Transportation and C-Store.
Ron Mills
National Business Development
Ron Mills resides in Bonita Springs Florida. Ron specializes in creating new products and programs from ideation to execution. He has leadership in forecasting, inventory control, and efficient logistics. Ron also has developed lasting customer relationships at all levels and in all channels.
Chris Mower
National Account & Retail Manager
Chris Mower resides in Central New Jersey. He brings over 8 years of experience with him from demanding, fast paced retail outlets such as grocery stores and travel. Chris has a strong background in relationship management, merchandising and data analysis.
Gavin Williams
National Marketing & Retail Coordinator
Gavin Williams resides near Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughters. Gavin is part of our airport activation and reconnaissance team.
Convenience Team
Frank Quinn
Director of Sales
Coming from years of experience as a category buyer as well as time spent as a broker, Frank understands the industry as well as anyone. He joined our team in January 2022 and brought a great level of expertise to our Sales Team.
Stephen Huneau
Sr. Regional Sales Manager
Stephen Huneau was initially hired on to S&S as a Merchandiser, though through his energetic and quick understanding of the industry, he was promoted to Sales Manager. Since then, he has demonstrated an outstanding ability to develop and maintain wholesaler and retail sales relationships.
TR Barritt
Regional Sales Manager (Western Mid-Atlantic)
TR joined our team in December of 2021. Residing in Pennsylvania, has years of experience in the industry coming over from the beverage side. We are happy to welcome him to our team as he offers tremendous expertise and relationship skills in the Mid-Atlantic Market
Scott Bossler
Regional Sales Manager (Eastern Mid-Atlantic)
Scott joined the S&S team in February 2022 after spending over 20 years in the foodservice industry. Throughout his career he’s held positions as a Food Broker, Regional Sales Manager and National Account Manager on the manufacturing side. Scott brings significant category management skills as well as the ability to develop and maintain strong customer relationships.
Jordan Buchas
Regional Sales Manager (Upstate New York)
Jordan Buchas resides here in the Capital Region of NY State. In January of 2020 he joined the team to specialize in Merchandising and Retail Space Management. Through COVID, he transitioned to a more prominent role on our Marketing Team. In June of 2022, we officially welcomed Jordan to our Sales Team as a Regional Sales Manager in the Upstate NY Market.
Mike Grubb
Regional Sales Manager (Northern New England)
Mike joined the team in June 2022. He resides in Massachusetts. He has over 12 years of experience in the CPG industry and recent knowledge of supply chain and transportation.
Sales Support
Sara Roberts
Manager of Sales Operations and Marketing
Sara Roberts lives in Eastern New York. She has worked her way up to Manager of Sales Operations and Marketing for S&S. Sara has a background in management, customer service and strong communication skills to elevate our team, provide additional support and develop partnerships.
Savannah Bell
Marketing & Retail Coordinator
Savannah Bell resides here in the Capital Region of NY state. In June of 2022 she joined the team to specialize in Marketing and Retail Space Management. Savannah can create a POG based on sales and innovation, then execute it at store level. In addition, she creates and maintains marketing tools for our sales team.
Ian Brumbaugh
Sales Operations Specialist
Ian Brumbaugh joined our team in January of 2023. He is an experienced Social Media Coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer services industry. Skilled in Operations Management, Secondary Education, Communication, Social Media, and Leadership, Ian is driven to help your team succeed. He currently resides in the Altoona area of Central, PA.
Administrative Team
Kelly Sweet
A/R supervisor
Kelly Sweet joined our team in November of 2014. Transitioning from 4 years of honorable service in the U.S. Navy, Kelly has extensive training and experience in maintaining account receivables/payables, and tracking databases.
Marcia Luzier
A/R Specialist
Marcia Luzier joined our team in February of 2022. Marcia comes to S&S with a considerable background in account receivables/payables and reconciliation of balance sheets.
Sara-Jane Fawcett
Orders Processing Specialist
Sarah-Jane Fawcett joined our team in September 2022. Sarah-Jane comes with a strong background in communication, administration, and customer service.