JOH recently announced that Joe Tavalone has been named an account executive in its non-foods division. He joins JOH after 26 years with KKM, LLC. During his last 10 years at KKM, Tavalone served as senior vice president of sales responsible for the management of the company’s healthcare segment in the New England area. His primary focus was on CVS where he successfully grew a line of business to $100 million in sales. Previously, Tavalone worked for the A.H. Robins Company as the northeast division manager. He will be reporting to Kevin Tassinari, EVP of non-foods. “We are thrilled to add someone with Joe’s background and experience to our amazing team,” said Tassinari. “He is a seasoned veteran with extensive knowledge of the health and beauty categories and will be a great addition to JOH.”
JOH also announced the promotion of Peter Robillard to associate director of category management.He started with JOH in 2019 as a senior category management analyst. Previously, he was a client manager for Nielsen delivering data-based insights to retail and manufacturing clients. Robillard’s broad experience also includes 10 years in sales and customer development for Colonial Wholesale BeverageCorp. “One year ago, Peter joined our Category Management Team with a deep intellectual passion for data and fact-based selling. Since then, he has organically become a leader amongst his peers,” said Melissa Passalaqua, director of category management. “This new role of associate director was designed to strengthen the team and JOH. We spent time carving out this position for Peter, and we are very excited to see his success and leadership have a positive impact on our team.” In his new role, Robillard will assist in the operational oversight of the category management team.