{"id":75129,"date":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/kroger-executive-monica-garnes-94-to-address-14th-annual-career-day\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:00:00","slug":"kroger-executive-monica-garnes-94-to-address-14th-annual-career-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/kroger-executive-monica-garnes-94-to-address-14th-annual-career-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger executive Monica Garnes \u201994 to address 14th Annual Career Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 18, 2019 \u2013 Monica Garnes \u201994, president of Fry\u2019s Food Stores in Arizona, is returning to the 溏心vlog免费B站 along with scores of fellow College of Business alumni to share their stories of growth and success with current business students.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Business\u2019 14<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Career Day on Friday, Oct. 25, will be a homecoming for more than 60 alumni who will mingle and network with the more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students working toward business degrees. The daylong event features a keynote address, career and industry panels and a career fair.<\/p>\n<p>Garnes will deliver the keynote speech on her career journey\u2014from growing up in Ohio to climbing the ladder at The Kroger Co., one of the largest supermarket chains in the U.S.\u2014at 8:30 a.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road, Kingston Campus. Garnes is president of Fry\u2019s Food Stores, a division of Ohio-based Kroger, with 121 stores, 93 fuel centers and more than 20,000 employees in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Garnes, who lives in Phoenix, said her talk will include three main themes that she hopes will provide students insight and inspiration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be confident and open to new challenges\u2014you never know what the future will hold and what doors will open.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership has many qualities, including being authentic, willing to be yourself and accepting failure as part of the experience.<\/li>\n<li>And adversity can bring opportunity, just trust the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from 溏心vlog免费B站, Garnes joined Kroger in 1995 as part of the management training program. She rose through the company, serving in varied positions along the way\u2014human resources coordinator, produce buyer, store manager, public affairs and media relations manager, district manager and produce merchandiser. She joined Fry\u2019s in 2013 as vice president of merchandising before being promoted to Kroger\u2019s vice president of produce and floral merchandising and procurement in 2015. She was named president of Fry\u2019s in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has garnered numerous awards and recognition, including the Fortune and Food &amp; Wine\u2019s 2016 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink, AZ Business\u2019 Most Influential Woman in Arizona, and Phoenix Business Journal\u2019s 2019 Outstanding Women in Business. Garnes, a two-time captain of the women\u2019s basketball team while at 溏心vlog免费B站, is a sports fans and serves on such boards as the Phoenix Suns Charities, the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Dean\u2019s Advisory Board, the advisory council for St. Mary\u2019s Food Bank, and Rio Salado College president\u2019s advisory council.<\/p>\n<p>After Garnes\u2019 speech, about 60 business alumni will take part in panels at 11 a.m. in Ballentine Hall that will provide current students with direction for careers in various fields and the latest news on a wide range of industries. At 1 p.m. in the Memorial Union, panels will focus on navigating career fairs and building a resume. The Career Fair will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom with about 50 companies participating, including Amica Mutual Insurance, Becton Dickinson, Centreville Bank, Dell Technologies, CVS and Pepsi Co.<\/p>\n<p>The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business has served as a leader in business education, research and outreach in Rhode Island since it was founded in 1923. It was the first accredited business school in Rhode Island, and is the only program in the state with accredited programs at the undergraduate, master\u2019s and Ph.D. levels.<\/p>\n<p>Business undergraduates can explore majors in accounting, entrepreneurial management, finance, general business, global business, marketing, supply chain management, textile marketing and textiles, fashion merchandising and design. Graduate students can seek an MBA in strategic innovation, general business, or a master of science in accounting, finance, textiles, fashion merchandising and design, labor relations and human resources, or a Ph.D. in business administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 18, 2019 \u2013 Monica Garnes \u201994, president of Fry\u2019s Food Stores in Arizona, is returning to the 溏心vlog免费B站 along with scores of fellow College of Business alumni to share their stories of growth and success with current business students. 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