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MMR honors ‘Most Influential Women’ of 2024

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MMR held an event in New York this week to honor Mass Market Retailing’s Most Influential Women of 2024. The retail honorees who attended included Alisa Dart of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Lindsay Knoop of Hy-Vee, Jocelyn Konrad of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Jennifer Lambert of Hy-Vee, Jill Pavlovich of Albertsons, Bonita Price of Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Laura Raney of Kroger Health, Jessica Ringena of Hy-Vee, Katie Scanlon of Publix, Lael Wilder of H-E-B and Amy Wittry of Hy-Vee.

Profiles of the 2024 “Most Influential Women” honorees were published in the March 25 issue of MMR.

Five outstanding executives from the supplier community — Beth Allgaier of CHPA, Abigail Buckwalter of Nestle Health Science, Kate Maheu of Kearney, Lori Schafer of Digital Wave Technology and Karen Shadders of The Emerson Group — were also honored at the event. Each will be profiled in a future issue of MMR.

  • Influential Women
    Samantha Resnik and Jill Pavlovich of Albertsons with Laura Chamberlain of Nature’s Way
  • Influential Women
    Alisa Dart of Dollar Tree and Cynthia Grizzle of Family Dollar
  • Influential Women
    Jennifer Cullen and Tanvi Thaker of Kenvue with Bob Goode of Nestle Health Science
  • Influential Women
    Joe Bivona of St. Joseph’s University with Karen Shadders of Emerson Group and Wayne Bennett of ECRM
  • Influential Women
    Lindsay Knoop, Amy Wittry, Jessica Ringena and Jennifer Lambert of Hy-Vee
  • Influential Women
    Diana Hatton, Kim Melsheimer, Gary Giles, Alec Frisch, and Herbe Baer of Nice-Pak with Phil Gelinas of JOH (fourth from left)
  • Influential Women
    Laura Chamberlain of Nature’s Way kicks off the award ceremony
  • Influential Women
    Honorees Beth Allgaier of CHPA, Lori Shafer of Digital Wave, Alisa Dart of Dollar Tree, Jocelyn Konrad and Bonita Price of Family Dollar/Dollar Tree, Rachel Marler of Haleon, Lael Wilder of H-E-B, Lindsay Knoop, Jennifer Lambert, Jessica Ringena and Amy Wittry of Hy-Vee, Laura Raney of Kroger, Abigail Buckwalter of Nestle Health Science and Katie Scanlon of Publix.
  • Alisa Dart, SVP of Asset Protection, Dollar Tree
  • Lindsay Knoop, SVP of Business Transformation, Hy-Vee
  • Konrad
    Jocelyn Konrad, SVP, Chief of Stores for Dollar Tree’s Family Dollar chain
  • Lambert
    Jennifer Lambert, SVP of IT, Strategy and Planning at Hy-Vee
  • Price
    Bonita Price, SVP of Merchandising for Dollar Tree’s Family Dollar chain
  • Raney
    Laura Raney, National Health and Wellness Director, East Region at Kroger Health
  • Ringena
    Jessica Ringena, SVP at Hy-Vee and President of Amber Specialty Pharmacy
  • Scanlon
    Katie Scanlon, Senior Director of Pharmacy Administration, Publix
  • Wilder
    Lael Wilder, Senior Business Development Manager, H-E-B
  • Wittry
    Amy Wittry, SVP of Marketing, Hy-Vee
  • Allgaier
    Beth Allgaier, SVP of Business Development and Industry Relations, CHPA
  • Buckwalter
    Abigail Buckwalter, CEO, Nestle Health Science U.S.
  • Marler
    Rachel Marler, Chief Customer Officer, Haleon Consumer Healthcare
  • Schafer
    Lori Schafer, CEO of Digital Wave
  • Shadders
    Karen Shadders, Vice President of Long Term Strategy and Development, The Emerson Group

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