About Us
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FCMI supports food handlers from a broad, informed context.
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Food Chain Management Inc. is a provider of data-driven insights for the food chain process. Our staff has over 30 years of industry experience and is well-networked with partner providers. In addition to our consulting and project management offerings, FCMI provides long-term professional service agreements to support our clients as their valued resource to manage specific organizational needs.
We provide solutions and support to multi-functional companies such as grocery store chains, quick-serve restaurant chains, multi-product manufacturing, and warehousing/distribution operations. In every case, our services position FCMI’s clients to be less vulnerable to inefficiencies and capable to better manage food safety and regulatory compliance challenges.
Management
All members of the FCMI Executive Leadership staff are shareholders in FCMI and have a vested interest into the success of our clients, business partners and investors. Our experts have created data-driven executable solutions across market segments that incorporates state-of-the-art technology with domain expertise.
Chris Kamarianakis
Chief Growth & innovation Officer
Christopher Chicoine
Head of Customer Success
Jeff Engels
Director of Business Development
Board and Advisors​​
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Warren Ache
Warren has considerable experience in executive management and business leadership acquired from a lengthy and diverse business career with a major international company. Following graduation from the University of Colorado with separate degrees in engineering physics and business finance, and following military service where he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal as a Combat Engineering Officer, he joined the Royal Dutch/Shell family of companies in their agricultural/animal health business center. Following assignments in a variety of business disciplines including engineering, finance, sales, marketing, and general business administration, he was appointed CFO and/or CEO of many RD/S subsidiary companies in diverse business areas including plastics/resins, catalysts, process technologies, metal products, and fine chemicals. Warren considers this diversity of management experiences as his most valuable attribute; i.e., he is a generalist rather than a specialist. Towards the end of his career, he became a Director of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures and completed numerous transactions. Following his career with RD/S, Warren founded, and later sold to Sprint, a successful telecommunications company. Currently, he serves as an elected Director and Board Member of two local government entities and also his community Owners Association.
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Joseph Garry
During a career spanning over forty years in the insurance industry, Joe was intricately involved in all facets of growing and managing a highly successful agency. Sales, personnel management, the oversight of marketing, accounting and automation systems were all achieved skills. During his career, the acquisition and sales of other agencies required strong negotiation skills. He was recognized as a “Hall of Fame” agent with the Allied insurance Group for sales growth. He also cultivated and maintained strong relationships with a number of insurance companies of various specialties.
After graduation from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Business Administration, Joe started and ended his career with Garry Insurancenter and is still involved with the firm in St Paul. Involvement with various civic organizations, serving as a board member of the St Paul Independent Agents Association and working with youth sports activities were also strong interests.
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Jay Sunderman
Jay Sunderman is a sixth-generation farmer operating in SW Iowa. Mr. Sunderman owns and operates Sunderman Farms and Feed Lot with 5,000 acres of primarily corn and soybean cash crops. Jay’s multi-faceted feed lot raises cattle as well. As a seasoned veteran of the many challenges and opportunities facing agriculture in America today, Mr. Sunderman brings a wealth of industry knowledge and relationships through various agricultural Boards and CO-OP memberships he is involved with. While Mr. Sunderman enjoys a past-time of restoring and showing antique tractors reminiscent of days gone by, he is also a keen observer of the role technology solutions play that are so necessary to mitigate risk and promote efficiencies within the farming vocation. As a successful business operator, Mr. Sunderman recognizes the critical nature of safe food products being delivered by the farming community to the consuming market that not only meet USDA and FDA compliance regulations but in fact excel in quantity and quality. Acknowledging this, Mr. Sunderman has a vested interest into FCMI’s unique farm-to-fork technologies and solutions that provide next generation enhancement opportunities.
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