ABOUT US

As the Vice President of Sales, Tom leads an expertly trained sales team in PDI's Infection Prevention Healthcare division, developing new hires into leaders, and forging lucrative partnerships with distributors and hospitals. 

Prior to joining PDI, Tom was Regional Sales Manager at Medtronic (formerly Covidien) before being promoted to VP of East Zone Sales. Prior to his role at Medtronic, Tom was the NE Regional Sales Manager with Owens and Minor (formerly Medical Action Industries) and he had a brief tenure at Roche Diagnostics as a Regional Business Manager. At Stryker (formerly Sage Products), Tom was progressively promoted to his role as a NE Territory Sales Manager. 

Tom holds a BA in Business Administration with a minor in Finance, earned while on a four-year baseball scholarship at Aldelphi University. He also holds Executive Certificates in Accounting & Finance, Leading Organizational Change at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, and Leadership & Management from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a Specialized Certificate in Intercultural Management from the University of Notre Dame. 

As Vice President and General Manager of Sani Professional, the food safety division of PDI, Espie is responsible for leading the division’s plan execution as well as crafting its future growth strategy. 

After joining PDI in 2011, Espie successfully led the Sani Professional marketing organization for six years as the Vice President, Marketing, before promotion to her current role.  She is an accomplished leader with diverse consumer and business-to-business experience.  Prior to joining PDI, Espie held roles of increasing responsibility with top Fortune 100 companies, such as The Colgate-Palmolive Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Kraft Foods International and Sara Lee. She has a solid track record of managing market leader brands, new product development and innovation and developing brands for new markets.

Espie holds a BA in Business, magna cum laude, from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, with a concentration in Marketing Management.

As Chief People Officer, Renée is responsible for leading all aspects of the human resource function, with responsibility for the development of talent management strategies designed to build and sustain a work environment of high employee productivity, engagement, and satisfaction.

Renée has experience driving organizational change across various industries and diverse cultures and offers a unique blend of deep HR business partner experience and OD capabilities. She possesses the ability to leverage experience from world-class organizations, including Novartis, Hewlett Packard, Chase Bank, and AlliedSignal to drive innovative and practical people-related solutions to meet key business challenges.  

Renée holds an MBA in Strategic Human Resources Management and an undergraduate degree, both from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

As the Vice President and General Manager of Contract Manufacturing, Cheryl leads the company's business unit that partners with global and national brand companies for the manufacture of custom cosmetic, personal care, OTC, medical device, and Prescription drug wet wipes.

Her career with Nice-Pak/PDI began over 25 years ago as a laboratory technician and subsequently she has progressed through the company with roles in R&D, Packaging, Customer Service, and Sales. Cheryl has comprehensive experience in virtually all aspects of PDI.  She is responsible for the growth and strategy of the division, and her strong leadership has produced consistent results. Cheryl creates long-lasting relationships with key strategic customers by assuring superior service, a high level of quality, and seamless product development.  

Cheryl received her BS from Cook College, Rutgers University.  

As Senior Vice President and General Manager of PDI Healthcare, Tom has overall responsibility for the division, leading the development and execution of its business plan and growth strategy.

Tom has a proven track record as a people-centered and results-driven senior executive.  In his previous role as President of Global Plasma for Haemonetics Corporation, Tom achieved impressive revenue and profit growth by implementing a new-product-technology and customer-value-centered strategy founded in innovation, clinical value, and commercial excellence.  

Earlier in his career, Tom spent 18 years at Boston Scientific Corporation holding multiple roles of increasing commercial leadership responsibility and contributing to the impressive growth of that successful medical device company. 

Tom received a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Gettysburg College where he was an All-America Swimmer, achieving five college and two conference records.  He is a former Board Member of the New England School for the Performing Arts and Medfield Youth Lacrosse.  

As the Vice President of Strategy, Chris leads, directs, and executes the vision and strategies which drive business development, portfolio management, and investment and expansion plans for the PDI Infection Prevention Business Unit (Healthcare and Sani Professional). 

Prior to joining PDI, Chris spent eight years with Covidien as a VP of marketing in both strategic and product marketing roles. Prior to Covidien, Chris had a successful sales and marketing career at Kimberly-Clark Healthcare, where he managed multiple infection prevention businesses.

Chris earned a master’s degree from Georgia State University, and a BA in Finance from the University of Missouri--St. Louis.

As Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Secretary to the Board of Directors, Shawn is responsible for overseeing the company’s legal affairs, including, contract negotiation and dispute resolution, transactions, corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, licensing, and labor and employment matters. Leveraging over 30 years of comprehensive legal experience, Shawn leads a team of lawyers and external counsel in supporting the company’s business objectives and mitigating risk in an increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment.

Prior to joining PDI, Shawn served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Del Laboratories, Inc. Previous experience included founding a legal consulting firm assisting growing, entrepreneurial companies, and serving as Corporate Counsel at Data Switch Corporation, a technology products company. She began her career as a corporate transactional attorney at Robinson & Cole.

Shawn received her BA, cum laude, from Amherst College, and a JD from the New York University School of Law. She has written and spoken extensively on legal and management issues, and is the co-author of The HR Answer Book: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals, published by the American Management Association.

As the Vice President of Sales for Sani Professional, Dwight is responsible for delivering top line and bottom line sales results in the foodservice channel.  Critical to this success is defining and communicating effective market strategies and building, developing and leading a high performing direct sales team. Focusing on key segments and leading multi-unit chain accounts, Sani Professional is driving advances in food safety protocols intended to mitigate the risk of Community Acquired Infections, including food borne illness.

Dwight has over 25 years of sales leadership experience within the foodservice channel. With leadership skills groomed in the environments of leading, nationally recognized Companies, including Nestle USA and Maple Leaf Foods his results include hundreds of millions in sales, improvements in market strategies, and leading non-performing divisions to unprecedented levels of productivity and profitability.  He is a proven forward thinker and visionary, with a keen grasp of critical business and market drivers.  

Dwight holds a BS in Business Administration from Truman State University.

As the Vice President of Operations, Jerry is responsible for the direction, strategy, planning, and execution of PDI’s manufacturing operations across all Infection Prevention and Contract Manufacturing product lines. He leads evaluation and establishment of additional manufacturing capabilities and technologies in support of PDI’s strategic plan, and also leads the effort to establish and maintain a culture of operational excellence throughout Operations. His specific responsibilities include Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning/Purchasing, Warehousing, Customer Care, and Distribution.   

Prior to joining PDI in 2015, Jerry worked as the Vice President, Operations and Research & Development at Cogentix Medical; Director of Operations, AngioDynamics; Vice President R&D/Advanced Engineering at NAMIC Division of Pfizer, and subsequently Boston Scientific; Vice President, Operations at Fiberoptic Sensor Technologies; and Manufacturing Manager at Cordis Corporation.

Jerry holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and is certified in Lean/Six Sigma.