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Nick serves as Senior Vice President of Store Strategy & Execution at Ahold, one of America's largest grocers and the parent of Giant, Stop & Shop and Peapod. At Ahold he is responsible for improving business processes, deploying strategic initatives, and managing support functions for the US business. He previously served as head of Store Operations for Jewel-Osco in Chicago, and prior to that spent 12 years with Walmart in a variety of leadership roles. In 2010, he was selected as one of Cleveland’s Forty Under 40 by Crain’s Business News, and in 2012 he was given the Young Alumni Award by his alma mater. Nick has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing, as well as an MBA. Along with his wife and two sons, he lives in central Pennsylvania.
Nicholas Bertram
Senior Vice President of Store Strategy & Execution, Ahold