Former PepsiCo president joins Albertsons, High Liner Foods chairman resigns and more
ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS: Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), Washington, D.C.
Leslie Lake joined as director of media relations. Previously, she served at Weber Shandwick as a day-to-day lead for a variety of clients across the company’s healthcare and public affairs practice groups. Prior to that, she held account executive roles at Edelman and FleishmanHillard, and also spent time on the events team at Politico.
The Short Line Safety Institute (SLSI), Washington, D.C. Dr. Kim Davies-Schrils was hired as director, research and organizational development, effective April 7, responsible for providing design, development, oversight and analysis of key programs, as well as primary research and scientific and technical reports based on the outputs of programs. Davies-Schrils has a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology with research specialization in safety culture, fatigue and worker well-being. Davies-Schrils was most recently employed with Volpe National Transportation Systems Center as an engineering psychologist in the human factors division, where she led multiple research and evaluation projects aimed at improving safety in the railroad industry.