Mark Gross JD

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Dr. Mark Goss is an Angel Investor. Dr. Gross serves as Board Member at Rackspace Technology. Dr. Gross served as Chief Executive Officer at Kernel Group Holdings. He serves as Board Member & Chairman of the Audit Committee at Acosta. He serves as Board Member at Acosta. Mr. Gross is a food executive with more than 20 years of critical leadership experience, financial expertise and insight in leading business transformations. He serves as Advisor at Upside. Mr. Gross is an experienced board member through his role on the board and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Supervalu, where he served from February 2016 to October 2018, and as Co-President of C&S, which is one of Forbes 15 largest private U.S. companies, where he served in various capacities from 1997 to 2006. Prior to his tenure at Supervalu, Mr. Gross led Surry Investment Advisors, a firm that he founded in 2006. From 2006 to 2015, he assisted grocery distributors and retailers on strategic and operational matters and consulted with private equity firms with respect to the food retail, distribution, and consumer packaged goods sectors. From 1997 to 2006, Mr. Gross held various positions at C&S, including Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel, President of affiliated retail grocery operations, and Co-President from 2005-2006. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Gross was an attorney in the Restructuring Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher and Flom LLP where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, financings and bankruptcy reorganizations. Currently, Mr. Gross is the Audit Committee Chairman at Acosta, the leading full-service sales and marketing agency representing leading CPG brands and retailers; the Lead Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair of Tops Markets, a grocery retailer which has over $2 billion in annual revenue; and Audit Committee Chair of Southeastern Grocers, a grocery retailer which has over $7 billion in annual revenue. Mr. Gross earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating cum laude, and holds a BA from Dartmouth College, where he graduated with highest honors in his major.