Doug Resh, MS '07

"I was recently awarded Produce Business News 40 under 40 for 2018. My oversight is to build the marketing and sales within the largest organic date farm in the U.S. I lead my team who is directly responsible for facilitating e-commerce, wholesale, ingredients and direct to retail efforts for 17 different varieties of dates."

"I was recruited into this position by a food ingredients recruiter firm to develop the ingredient division of Woodspur. After 2 years of accelerated growth during start up mode I was promoted to the Vice President role."

"SJU has impacted me throughout my career as each class I took in my master's program led me to develop real-world tactics to increase sales and penetrate categories of marketing that I wouldn't have otherwise known existed. In addition, I have been able to utilize much of what I learned in class to leverage management positions for every company I have been associated with. The insights I am able to bring to executive leadership meetings now have been built from the ground up, and that baseline was SJU professors who are very well-rounded in the industry, which gives students a leg up in competition seeking career advancement."

"I participated in some off-site travel experiences during the food marketing program, where we took retail store tours throughout the Northeast. It was a great experience to see retail food outlets from within and the techniques they use to market food products."