Supermarket industry vets Richard Juliano, Austin Noll join Park City Group board
PARK CITY, Utah — Park City Group, a provider of consumer goods supply chain technology, has tapped food industry insiders Austin Noll Jr. and Richard Juliano to serve on its board. Peter Brennan, who has served on the board since 2009, has announced his retirement from the board for personal reasons. All moves are effective immediately.
The group represents all areas of the retail grocery, convenience, foodservice and discount channels, as well as trading partners and industry groups.
“The addition of Rich and Austin creates a powerhouse board of directors, extending our already impressive reach into retailers, distributors and manufacturers throughout the industry. Through these relationships, we now have access to most of the key executives at leading food and supermarket companies across the country and will use these connections to expand our footprint in the sector,” stated Randall Fields, chairman and CEO of Park City Group.
Juliano currently is engaged with the Radian Group, based in Minneapolis, and operates his own consulting firm. He began his career with Giant Eagle Super Markets, becoming the SVP and general manger of the GM/HBC division and then SVP merchandising and marketing of the Phar-Mor division. Juliano then served as EVP at Thrifty Payless Drug and VP marketing and merchandising at Genuardis Family Markets in Philadelphia. Most recently, he was a senior executive at Supervalu, joining the company as EVP supply chain services for the central region and then moving to the corporate retail group as VP of GM/HBC, and ultimately group VP center store merchandising.
Noll is the owner of Austin Noll & Associates, a trade relations and industry affairs consultancy based in New Jersey. Noll started his career with General Foods, spending 22 years in sales related positions. He then became VP trade relations for the grocery division of Borden and was promoted to VP industry and trade relations, before moving to Nabisco as SVP industry and trade relations.