Albertsons Companies CEO and leadership

Vivek Sankaran is a Board Member at Albertsons, Board Member at Guardian Life Ins Co. Of Amer., and President/CEO at Albertsons. He has worked as Senior VP:Strategy & Dev at PEPSICO INC; SVP GM, South Business Unit Frito Lay at PEPSICO INC; and President/COO at Frito-Lay North America Inc.. Vivek studied at Michigan Ross School of Business between 1991 and 1993, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECH between 1987 and 1988, and Indian Institute of Technology/Madras between 1981 and 1985.

Energetic executive with 20+ years of experience successfully leading and scaling strategic business units for Fortune 100 companies. Demonstrated ability to drive accelerated revenue growth and profitability expansion for industry leading brands and retail businesses.

Specialties: Product Management / New Product Development, E-commerce, P&L Management, Hiring and Leading High Performance Teams, International Business Management, Brand Management, Vendor Negotiations, Retail Merchandising, Cost Reductions, Inventory Planning and Replenishment, Import Management.

Mike brings over 25 years of global operating and people leadership. After beginning his career in actuary consulting, he served in senior roles at Diageo, PepsiCo/Yum and most recently as Group EVP at JC Penney. He has led organizations of 150,000 employees across operations, technology and human resources. Mike joined Slome Capital as a Managing Director to lead the firm's venture investments. He serves on the boards of Catapult Health, Bypass Mobile, Peeractive as well as the Jay Baker Retail Program at Wharton. Mike's focus at Catapult is creating and executing a world-class operating platform to best serve our clients and patients.

Anuj Dhanda graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in Commerce and received his MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from Rutgers University. He began his career as a consultant with KPMG in Bahrain in 1984, and then worked at JP Morgan Chase before joining PNC Financial Services Group where he rose to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He joined Giant Eagle as CIO in 2013. Dhanda brings extensive background in merger integration, digital marketing and commerce, systems modernization, and data security.

Dhanda joined Albertsons Companies in December 2015. He was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in 2019.

Susan began her career in Albertsons Denver Division while still in high school and worked her way up in the ranks proving her ability to lead, to execute and to bring teams together in one assignment after another in her 30+ years in the retail grocery business. Since March of 2015, Susan has led the Denver Division team after having successfully led our Boise-based Intermountain Division for the two prior years. Her career has spanned roles from Store Director to Corporate Grocery Sales Director, Vice President of Bakery and Operations and, upon the sale of Albertson’s Inc.’s assets to SUPERVALU, Vice President of Customer Satisfaction. In 2010, she was Senior Vice President of Sales and Merchandising when she left SUPERVALU to join Albertsons LLC’s Southwest Division as Grocery Sales Manager, and was appointed Vice President of Marketing & Merchandising in 2012. Susan was named EVP, East Operations in April 2016.

Saenz, 43, has over 15 years of experience in the consumer packaged goods sector, holding roles of increasing responsibility within PepsiCo since 2005. Since 2019, Saenz has served as Global Chief Marketing Officer and President, Global Foods, with responsibility for the $30 billion PepsiCo Foods portfolio. From 2015 to 2019 Saenz served as SVP & Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo Foods North America, where she accelerated growth and drove innovation for the $16 billion snacking portfolio. From 2009 to 2015 she held a number of brand and customer marketing positions within Frito-Lay.

Saenz graduated from The Goizueta School of Business at Emory University with a Bachelor of Business Administration and received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Saenz has been recognized for her professional accomplishments through a number of awards, including Fast Company’s Most Creative People in 2018, Brand Innovators’ Top 100 Women in Marketing in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and AdWeek’s Brand Genius Award in 2017.