Scott Bryditzki ~ President/CEO

Scott has been in the Food Sales and Marketing business in California for over 25 years. His career began in grocery stores where he rose to a management position by age 19. He decided to join the Food Sales and Marketing side of the industry in 1983. He started as a Retail Sales Representative with one of the most progressive companies in Northern California. Over the 18 years with this same company, he held various positions including the Management of Retail Sales Reps, Key Account Management, Brand Management and eventually as Team Leader for Fortune 500 companies.

In 2003 he became a partner in Concept Sales and Associates and then Managing Partner. Over the following years, the company expanded into a west coast sales and marketing company including corporate teams at Safeway, Kroger and Supervalu.

Early in 2010 he took the company to a new level to serve the clients, by merging the specialty department of Impact Sales with the company which included retail sales teams throughout the West. It also provided order processing systems and Nielsen data updated every two weeks for the companies clients. The new company CSI Sales was now able to serve it’s clients not only with the vast relationships the team had, but also utilize technology to help with fact based selling.

Scott lives in Northern California with his wife Debbie and 4 children. He enjoys rock climbing, spending time with his wife and children, and working with a non profit that supports orphanages in Haiti.

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Roger Campbell ~ Grocery Director

Roger began his Career in the grocery Business inNorthern Californiaas a Route Salesman for Kilpatrick’s Bakery in 1985. Throughout his stint of 7 years with the company, Roger moved up to Sales Supervisor within 2 two years and then was promoted to Sales Manager of the Eagle Snack potato chip division.

In 1992 Roger was hired by Carey, Ahrens and Raynsford Food Brokers to develop the Asian Foods portion of the specialty division for the company. The division grew under Roger’s management and he caught the eye of Bell Carter Distributors inModestoCaliforniawhich specialized in Hispanic and Asian Foods. Roger relocated his family toModestowhere he took the position as buyer for the company.

As with how this industry goes at times, Bell Carter lost several contracts with retailers and ended up closing their doors 2 years after Roger had joined the company. Certified Grocers asked Roger to come on board as a Sales Account Manager quickly afterward, and the company quickly asked him to become the Asian buyer out of their Southern California Office, while adding to his workload as the Marketing Manager for their Northern California office.

After a 5 year stretch with Certified, Passarow Foods (a Northern California Food Broker) hired Roger away to be their Vice President focusing on developing its specialty Hispanic foods business. Roger developed several procedures to grow the company while at Passarow Foods, and through his organizational skills and management the company grew. As a result of the growth of Passarow Foods, Acosta Sales and Marketing purchased the company a few years later.

Roger remained with the company for 7 years until accepting an offer from Impact Sales to be Vice President of Specialty and Hispanic Foods in theNorthern California division. He later became Executive Vice President of Business Development. Through his time in these positions, Roger has developed a leadership position within the Specialty and Ethnic Foods industry and great relationships with the retailers and distributors.

In 2011,  Roger accepted the newly created position of Regional Director of California Grocery for CSI Sales. Moving from his current position at ISI, Roger took on this significant and expanded role within CSI. Roger’s responsibilities include the managing of all our team members within both the Northern and Southern California divisions.

Roger lives in Northern California with his wife Tish who heads up CSI’s Safeway team. He enjoys spending time with his grand kids and bocce ball.

Debbie Denso ~ Director of Corporate Teams

Debbie Denso began her career in the grocery industry as a checker at the Ralph’s Grocery Company in Southern California while earning her Bachelor’s degree at San Diego State University.  Upon graduation, Debbie entered the work force at Bradshaw South, a large food broker with offices in southern and northern CA. Beginning as an entry level sales representative, calling on conventional grocery stores, she was quickly promoted to Grocery Sales Trainer. During her six year tenure Debbie was also promoted to Retail District Manager and Key Account Manager calling on independent retailers in the market.

In 1991 Debbie left Bradshaw South to join her father at Golden State Sales and Marketing; a new food brokerage company which he had opened the previous year. Over the next 15 years Debbie held several positions within the company that covered all aspects of the business. She worked in accounting, customer Service, account sales, business management and national account management.  Debbie created the specialty foods division of GSSM and was an early pioneer of natural brands into the grocery class of trade. She developed a comprehensive gourmet department for the company and worked closely with the specialty distributors and all grocery retailers in Southern California.

In 2006 Debbie’s father sold his company to Impact Sales and Debbie stayed on to run the Natural/Specialty division for the company in Southern California. She became proficient at fact based sales, utilizing the new tools Impact Sales provided. PinnSights data (derived from AC Nielsen scan data) became the norm in her planning and selling. Setting sales objectives for her clients, using PinnSights, Debbie was able to further establish growth for the brands she managed.

In early 2010 Concept Sales and Associates (which solely worked with Natural and Specialty foods clients covering the west in the natural and conventional grocery classes of trade) and Impact Sales got together and created CSI Sales Solutions. The company was formed to take Natural, Specialty and Ethnic foods to a whole new level, by providing their clients with the fact based sales tools. Debbie’s position became “Director of Southern California, Grocery Division” for the newly formed company.

With the growth and success of CSI Sales with their clients at Kroger and Safeway Corporate, CSI Sales made the move to expand the management of these corporate teams. Debbie accepted the newly created position of “Director of Corporate Teams”. In addition to this role she continues to manage a few of our clients in the Southern California Market.

Debbie was born in San Diego CA and graduated from San Diego State University. She has been married to her husband, Chuck for 24 years and they have two boys, Dylan (21) and Tanner (19). Debbie has lived with her family in Laguna Niguel since 1989. Both boys are now attending college in San Diego. Debbie enjoys working out, fun with friends, the beach and watching her son play football for SDSU.

 Megan Vivenzio ~ Director Northwest Natural

Megan has spent over 20 years in the Northwest working with clients to expand their business in the natural food class of trade. She has managed Grocery, frozen, perishable and HBC clients business. Prior to becoming a partner at CSI Sales, Megan worked for 3 large brokers in the northwest heading up major departments. Her experience and knowledge of the market, her relationships with the customers, and the building of one of the finest teams in the northwest, has enabled CSI Sales to become one of the leading brokerage companies in this market.

 Rich Walsh ~ Director Northwest Grocery

Like so many of us at CSI, rich grew up in the business. His family owned a frozen food distribution company in California which specialized in Ice cream. The family saw the growth potential in natural foods and started distributing natural frozen foods and Rich headed up the sales. The company quickly became the largest DSD company of frozen foods in northern California. The family decided to sell the company in 1995.

Rich then took a position with Small Planet Foods in which he developed the sales on the Cascadian Farms, Muir Glen and Fantastic Foods brands in both the natural foods and grocery classes of trade. His responsibilities also included club business, managing the west coast Sales managers along with their sales organizations and the sales analysis team. As Cascadian Farms grew, Richs roll increased and he was a key person folding in acquired brands into the Cascadian system. In 2000, Cascadian Farms was acquired by General mills and the new parent company put Rich into a key roll to help integrate the company into the system. Rich took on a major roll in sales managing 7 broker teams, as well as the key distributors in the west. He was instrumental in opening up new accounts, club business and negotiating for Private Label contracts. Through his leadership at General Mills, the company achieved sales growth of over 35% per year… No small feet when you are managing through the integration process of 2 companies.

As General Mills consolidated, Rich decided to take a restructuring package and invest in a small brokerage company in the PNW headed up by Megan Vivenzio… yes Concept Sales Northwest. As the company grew Rich split his time with the company on its board of Directors and a non profit foundation inOregon. After a couple of years doing this, Rich accepted a position as Director of Grocery in the Northwest for the company and has done a fantastic job of expanding our clients business within this class of trade and is a key shareholder in the company.

Rich enjoys fishing and golf in the little spare time he has. He has 2 kids and shares a wonderful home in Southern Oregon with his wife Karen.

 Julie Nesdill ~ Director Arizona

Julie began her sales carrier with All American Distributing where she called on the grocery and Drug chains in the Arizona and Colorado markets. After 2 years of learning the sales ropes, she was recruited by Southern Wine and Spirits as a field supervisor. She was responsible for hiring, training and managing the sales force throughout the state of Arizona. In 1993 Julie was promoted to Account Executive for the company calling on Safeway, Walgreens, Mega Foods and Emporium markets. Her job responsibilities included the management of promotional funds, new items and managing the company’s extensive objectives.

Julie was promoted to develop a Category Management Division for the company in 1996 and brought in by the company to be a part of their National Development Team. She was in charge of category management, IRI and Nielson analysis, developing presentations for the company to maximize market Share, revenues and gross profits.

In 1998 Julie finally succumbed to the pressure to go to work for Road Runner Sales and Marketing. Her primary responsibilities were to work with the Arizona retailers developing their schematics. Fry’s Supermarkets had her as Table Captain for the Fry’s Natural Foods Departments, and she ran analysis of internal and external Kroger data to help her company manage their business.

Impact Sales had been seeing what Julie had been doing in that market and 10 years after joining Road Runner, she accepted an expanded position at Impact Sales where she not only worked on the analysis end, but also got back into the sales end of things with all the customers in the Arizona market. With Impact’s extensive category management system, Pinnsights, Julie expanded her experience which was extremely critical to the development of the brands in the Arizona market.

In early 2010 Concept Sales and Associates (which solely worked with Natural and Specialty foods clients covering the west in the natural and conventional grocery classes of trade) and Impact Sales got together and created CSI Sales Solutions. The company was formed to take Natural, Specialty and Ethnic foods to a whole new level, by providing their clients with the fact based sales tools. Julie accepted the position as Director of Arizona and with her team has expanded the company’s business in that market substantially.

Julie was born in Colorado and graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Business Administration.  She and her husband Mike (and their dogs, Divot and Bogey) have lived in Phoenix for 26 years.  They both enjoy golf, biking, fishing, and camping (anything outdoors!).