Symbotic

Grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 with a B.A. in Economics and Accounting, and joined his family's grocery distribution business C&S Wholesale Grocers — co-founded by his grandfather in 1918 — rising to Chairman, President, and CEO in 1989. Under his leadership C&S became a $25B powerhouse and one of the ten largest privately held U.S. companies. Decades of automating his own warehouses led him to found CasePick Systems in 2007, renamed Symbotic in 2012, which he took public via SPAC in 2022 at a $10B valuation with Walmart, Target, and Albertsons as customers.