Rob Andrews combines twenty-five years in retail with eighteen years of search experience to deliver outstanding result to his clients in the food, foodservice and retailing sectors.

Rob's consulting practice focuses on retailing and food industry executive search as well as general management searches for a broad range of industries. His clients range from $25 million food manufacturing companies to $30+ billion retailers. Rob has successfully completed searches at the CEO, COO, CFO and CTO level, as well as officer and director level searches in the functional areas of store operations, marketing, merchandising, advertising, construction, facilities management, finance, accounting, systems, transportation, logistics, distribution and security across a broad range of industries. Rob has personally conducted over 175 searches during his search career.

Prior to reentering the world of search in 1994, Rob served as regional vice president for Kash n' Karry Food Stores in Tampa where he had total P& L responsibility for a region consisting of forty-nine supermarkets, three super-warehouse stores and thirty-one liquor stores.

Prior to his three year tenure at Kash n' Karry, Rob spent seven years with National Convenience Stores, rising from the level of area supervisor to division head in three years. During Rob's tenure at NCS, he had total responsibility for as many as 516 stores spread from El Paso, Texas to West Palm Beach, Florida. Rob consistently managed the top performing divisions in the company.

The early years in Rob's career included two years in search with Roth Young and thirteen years in retail, nine of which were spent with Safeway Stores Incorporated. In 1975, Rob became the youngest store manager in the history of two divisions of Safeway. He quickly developed a reputation for his ability to drive sales and net profit in each of his six assignments as store manager.

Rob completed an undergraduate degree, attending classes on weekends, at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, while managing the southwestern division for National Convenience Stores in 1991. He subsequently completed his graduate work in business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 while serving as Executive Vice President of an east coast executive search firm. Rob recently completed Leading Professional Service Firms Program at the Harvard Business School.