Unified Grocers CEO and leadership

Bob Ling is President and Chief Executive Officer of Unified Grocers and has served in this role since May 2013. In 2011, Bob was named President of the Company. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, in which he was responsible for the Company’s Human Resources, Labor Relations, Real Estate and Government Relations functions. Prior to joining Unified in 1996 (Unified was then known as Certified Grocers of California, Ltd.), Bob held senior level positions with retail drugstore and supermarket companies. He was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for MegaFoods Stores, Inc., in Mesa, Arizona and also served as Acting President and CEO of MegaFoods. Bob also had a similar position with Reliable Drug Stores, Inc., in Indianapolis, Indiana. Earlier in his career, he was a partner in the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, concentrating his practice in employment and labor law. Bob currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Grocers Association and was Chairman of the Board of the California Grocers Association (CGA) in 2009 and recently served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CGA Educational Foundation for four years. Previously, he served on CGA's Executive Committee, was a member of the Government Relations Committee and the Association’s Political Advisory Committee. Bob is a Board Member and Public Affairs Committee Member of the California Retailers Association. He also is a member of the California Business Roundtable and the Government Relations Committee of the Food Marketing Institute. A graduate of Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Bob holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Accomplished Head of Internal Audit for global, publicly-traded companies, reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and to the Chief Financial Officer or General Counsel.

Collaboratively implement a risk-based audit plan (internal controls, financial reporting, systems and operational audits) and partner with management to help ensure Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) success with key roles in external audit management, systems implementation, fraud investigation, data analytics and acquisition integration.

Ida Hailstone is a Previous Chief Technology Officer for Unified Grocers at Unified Grocers and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Randall Scoville is a Senior VP:Acctg/Chief Acctg Ofcr at Unified Grocers and Board Member at Sport Chalet. He has worked as Vp;accounting/Chief Acctg Ofcr at Unified Grocers. Randall works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at California Shopping Cart Retrieval Corporation. He studied at University of California.