Industry Insights with Infuse Hospitality
Industry Insights with Infuse Hospitality
Industry Insights with Infuse Hospitality
The SHFM Industry Advisory Board (IAB) is proud to continue its virtual four-part series to support suppliers in the evolving foodservice landscape. Each session offers practical insights from our contractor community on onboarding, growth strategies and navigating key challenges. Join us for our third installment with industry leaders from Infuse Hospitality! Learn how to:
- Become an approved supplier
- Expand categories
- Manage channel conflicts
- Stand out as a strategic partner
- And more
When
Friday, June 12th
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Where
VIRTUAL
Zoom
Registration
FREE!
Presenters
Maria Cleaveland (Co-Moderator)
Sales Director, America
Urnex Brands
Maria Cleaveland has been helping coffee suck less since 1993—and shaping the industry while she’s at it. A hospitality powerhouse and a fearless leader across coffee’s value chain, she has scaled licensing and wholesale businesses at Starbucks, Peet’s and Equator Coffees. Maria managed the very first Starbucks store in New York City, helped launch the brand’s airport strategy and went on to lead sales, operations and training programs that set new industry standards.
Today, Maria serves as Sales Director of the Americas for Urnex, the global leader in coffee equipment cleaning products, while advising BrewBird and other next-gen coffee ventures. She’s also the founder of Lift & Learn, a cross-training platform helping baristas and technicians build meaningful careers. She brings relentless curiosity, a touch of moxie, and a whole lot of heart to every corner of the industry—because to Maria, coffee is community, and the people are the point.
Michael Moore (Co-Moderator)
Chief Sustainability Officer
Restaurantware
Michael Moore is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Restaurantware and a proud father of two. Formerly a trained chef, author and podcast host, he began his career cooking for celebrities in Los Angeles before moving into foodservice management, where he specialized in designing menus and kitchens for eating disorder recovery programs. Those early experiences paved the way for his transition to Restaurantware, where he took on the challenge of developing more eco-friendly products—combining his passions for sustainability, creative problem-solving and foodservice.
As CSO, Michael has led the company’s sustainability transformation—including learning firsthand how to build and launch a foundation from the ground up. This work now drives Restaurantware’s environmental initiatives and partnerships. Michael was raised to believe in leaving everything better than he found it—and that includes this beautiful, blue marble we all call home.
Randy Dominguez
Vice President of Supply Chain Services
Centicor/Infuse Hospitality
Randy is a senior procurement executive with an established track record of developing forward-thinking teams that deliver value against economic, social impact, and corporate governance objectives. He has been instrumental in creating client-centered programs for customers in the healthcare, senior living, education, business & industry, leisure, lodging, and casual dining markets while a procurement executive at a Foodbuy and as Head of North American Procurement and Supply Chain at ISS – Guckenheimer. He has also worked on the supplier side of the negotiating table for fourteen years with multinational consumer packaged goods companies Unilever and Mondelez.
At Centicor Procurement Services, Randy and his team are focused on developing a portfolio of supplier relationships and strategic partnerships across all spend categories that deliver exceptional quality while generating client value at the invoice level. This focus, combined with a commitment to simplifying the client experience, is at the core of Centicor Procurement Services’ mission.
Randy holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
Paul Fairhead
Chief Executive Officer
Infuse Hospitality
Paul Fairhead is CEO of Infuse Hospitality, where he is leading the company’s rapid expansion, focusing on premium commercial culinary solutions to meet new consumer expectations. A former chef turned executive, he brings more than 25 years of global hospitality experience across hotels, restaurants and corporate dining in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He has a proven track record of scaling high-quality foodservice organizations while maintaining operational excellence and strong client satisfaction. Prior to joining Infuse, Paul served as CEO of Guckenheimer.