CFESA Announces 2026 Election Slate

Voting will occur Sept. 29 during the national conference in Lake Geneva, Wis.

May 27, 2026

CFESA’s 2026 election slate made its debut this May, with about four months to go until new board members are nominated.

The candidates are as follows: TJ Coker, director of operations at Coker Service, for board president; Robert Harris, assistant vice president operations and support at Smart Care Solutions, and Loretta Mealer, administration/HR at Austin Mealer’s Restaurant Equipment Service, for vice president; Angela Petitti, vice president of Gary’s East Coast Service, for secretary; Paul Morrison, president of TWC Services, for treasurer; and Jeff Victory, national sales director at Hagar Restaurant Service, George Roberts-Smith, CEO of MCFT, and Paul Pumputis, director of divisional service operations at Duffy’s – AIS, for director.

Learn more about CFESA’s current board here, and for more on its upcoming conference at which voting will occur, see here.

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