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Joseph H. “Jay” Campbell, Jr.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Associated Grocers
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January 28, 2004
Joseph “Jay” Campbell, president
and CEO of Associated Grocers, will open the
spring Flores MBA Distinguished Speaker Series
on February 6, 2003, at the Lod Cook Alumni Center
on LSU’s campus at 10:00 a.m. Associated
Grocers is a 53 year old retailer owned corporation
that services more than 250 independent grocers
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama,
providing retail accounting, advertising, equipment
sales, marketing, retail technology, and promotional
merchandising services and support that independent
grocers utilize to remain competitive and customer
focused in the retail grocery marketplace.
Campbell, a Shreveport, La. native, joined Associated
Grocers as a part-time bookkeeper in 1972 while
pursuing his bachelor’s degree at LSU.
He assumed the position of internal auditor and
in-house legal counsel after obtaining his law
degree in 1976. Campbell served as treasurer,
controller, chief financial officer, chief operating
officer, and vice-president of Associated Grocers
before being named president and chief executive
officer in 1995.
Campbell is a two-time alumnus of LSU, earning
a Bachelor of Science from the College of Business
Administration in 1973 and a Juris Doctor in
1976. He currently serves on the boards of directors
of the National Grocers Association, Shurfine
International, Capital Area United Way, Pennington
Biomedical Research Foundation, the Louisiana
Association of Business and Industry, and Mary
Bird Perkins Cancer Center. He remains active
in the legal community as a member of the Baton
Rouge and Louisiana State Bar Associations and
serves as associate director of Louisiana Boys
State, the program that first brought him to
LSU in 1968. Campbell earned the highest honor
given by the Ourso College of Business Administration
in 2000, when he was inducted into the Hall of
Distinction.
The Distinguished Speaker Series is an integral
part of the Flores MBA program. The series enhances
students’ classroom education by exposing
them to the latest forces shaping American and
international business from executives who face
those issues daily. Upcoming speakers for the
spring semester are John Davies, president and
CEO of Baton Rouge Area Foundation (March 26,
2004) and D. Martin “Marty” Phillips,
managing director and principal of EnCap Investments
(April 16, 2004).
The Flores MBA Distinguished Speaker Series is
free and open to the public with each event beginning
promptly at 10:00 a.m. RSVPs are requested. For
more information or to make a reservation, please
contact Allison Bridgewater, assistant director
of the Flores MBA programs, at abridg2@lsu.edu
or 225/578-8867.
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