Kathleen Smith, CFI, is Vice President of Asset Protection for the newly merged Albertsons and Safeway companies, where she over sees security and loss prevention for over 2200 stores in the U.S., thirty-three manufacturing facilities, twenty warehouse facilities, and buying offices worldwide.
With over thirty years of security management and law enforcement experience, Smith is the past chairperson of the Food Marketing Institute’s loss prevention committee. She is on the advisory committee for the Center for Interviewer Standards and Assessment, RILA’s Senior Asset Leader Council and Horizon Committee and the loss prevention committees for the California Grocers Association and California’s Retailers Association. Smith is Chair for the board of directors of Retail Merchant Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of CGA and is a member of ASIS Retail Loss Prevention Committee.
Smith has earned a master’s degree in communications from Pepperdine University, Advanced Police Officer Standards and Training certificate from the State of California, and was elected to the “Who’s Who of American Women” in 1999.
In 2011 and 2013 Smith was selected by Progressive Grocer as one of the Top 100 Women in Grocery at the Senior Executive level, for her efforts in ORC and shrink reduction.
Loss Prevention Executive Summit
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Remaining Relevant In A World of Retail Chaos
As retail grocery companies continue to morph due to mergers, acquisitions, consolidation, and closures, being positioned to weather the change can be challenging. How do you remain relevant during these tumultuous times and retain your position, and advance, when faced with new management, corporate structure and business policies and procedures.
Kathleen Smith, Vice President of Asset Protection, Albertsons Companies, has weathered the challenges of industry consolidation, numerous executive-level turnover to direct the loss prevention efforts of one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains. In this session, Kathleen will share her success story on how to remain relevant in a sea of a constant chain. She will draw on her more than 30 years of security and law enforcement experience to provide meaningful insight that will help you be ready when a change occurs. This session will include valuable collaboration time for attendees to share best practices on preparing for inevitable change.
