Jeff King was appointed President in May 2019 and Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. Since joining CPFD in November 2006, Jeff has become an integral part of Coastal and has prospered in his former key roles as both Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer within the organization. As President & CEO, Jeff will have responsibility for all of the Company’s worldwide operations.

In March 2008, Jeff was given the additional role overseeing CPFD's Prime Vendor Food Service Division, where he was responsible for administering contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (DLA TS), formerly the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) in Japan, Singapore, Diego Garcia, the Philippines and as a subcontractor in Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. Jeff has been integral in the writing, submission, and subsequent award of CPFD's key Prime Vendor contracts.

Jeff began his career with Cal Pac at the warehouse level and, over the next 10 years at Cal Pac, he assumed increased levels of responsibility and management positions leading to his appointment to Chief Operating Officer, which he held for 8 years prior to the CPFD acquisition. In joining CPFD, Jeff brought his experience from the distribution end as well as the store level operations with the in-store deli and bakeries contract, to include sushi operations throughout the commissaries in the Far East. In addition, the Cal Pac division of CPFD is also the "Prime Vendor" to the Air Force Non-Appropriated Funds MWR activities located throughout the Far East market.

Jeff is a member of the American Logistics Association. He has served as President of the ALA Northern California Chapter for 3 years. He was elected to the ALA's National Board of Directors from 2005 through 2010 and again from 2019 through 2020, while in this capacity, served on numerous committees involving issues surrounding the military resale system.

Jeff holds a B.S. in Business and Economics from Saint Mary's College of California.

Jim has over 30 years of Grocery Distribution and Transportation experience. Most recently Jim was the Vice President, Distribution Operations and Transportation at Stop & Shop, in Massachusetts, where he was responsible for nine Distribution Centers servicing over 400 grocery stores in the Northeast. Jim started his career at Hannaford in Maine and has worked in every level of warehousing. Jim comes to us with a strong background in Inventory control, Warehouse Management Systems, labor relations, efficiency improvement, transportation and is very focused on safety.

Kevin Carpenter is Chief Financial Officer for Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc. (CPFD), responsible for CPFD’s financial management and reporting as well as contributing to the strategic growth and financial strength of the Company. In his earlier roles at CPFD, Kevin held several senior leadership positions including Corporate Controller, Director of Finance and most recently Vice President of Finance.

Prior to joining CPFD in 2013, Kevin spent 13 years in public accounting where he worked with CPFD and other companies within the industry as a Senior Manager and CPA providing tax and audit services at Dixon Hughes Goodman (previously Goodman & Company) in Norfolk, Virginia.

Together with CPFD and public accounting, Kevin has over 20 years of manufacturing, distribution and government contract industry experience.

Kevin holds a B.S. in Business Administration – Accounting from Old Dominion University.

Monika Bertke joined CPFD in August 1997 as Corporate Controller overseeing CPF's corporate-wide finance and accounting departments. In June 2006 Monika was named Vice President of Finance and an Officer of the Company. Prior to CPFD she held various financial management positions with Fleming Foods in their franchise retail Food-4-Less division. Previous management positions in retail and manufacturing included jobs in procurement, transportation, internal audit and retail sales.

Monika earned her M.B.A. from California State University, Sacramento, and her B.S. degree in Agricultural & Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.

Chris Hott joined CPFD in 2016 as Director of Information Technology overseeing its technical infrastructure and systems across multiple distributions centers. Chris was previously consulting for Coastal Pacific and was instrumental in their split of IT operations from a sister distribution company in 2010 and their journey to the cloud starting with Office 365 in 2011. He has assumed roles of increasing responsibility while at CPFD and is now Chief Information Officer. Most recently, Chris has been leading Coastal’s cyber security program and their efforts on NIST 800-171 compliance and DoD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Level 3 certification.

Prior to CPFD, Chris worked for an enterprise systems integrator on a team enhancing and upgrading ERP software for manufacturers and distributors.

Chris earned his BS degree in Financial Management from Clemson University.

Brian Murdoch is Executive Vice President for Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, Inc., and is a member of the company’s Executive Management Team. In his role as EVP Brian is responsible for leading the company’s OCONUS & CONUS Prime Vendor (PV) Program along with the companies Contract Divisions that include the Japan DeCA produce contract, the Deli/Bakery and Sushi Far East contract and the Air Force MWR Asia contract.  In addition to contract division management, Brian plays an essential role implementing business development for the company.

Over the course of over 28+ years at CPFD, Brian has had oversight in the inception and significant expansion and growth of CPFD’s PV program supporting our US Troops “around the globe”, working closely with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (DLA TA), Air Force Non-Appropriated Funds (AFNAF) and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA).

In 1995 Brian joined CPFD in conjunction with CPFD’s acquisition of Select Foods, where he was the Head Buyer in charge of both commissary and Lucky Northern CA procurement programs.

Brian is a member of the American Logistics Association and Research and Development Associates for the Military Food Industry.