Chair and Co-Founder, United Natural Foods, Inc.

Michael Funk founded Mountain Peoples Warehouse in 1976. As one of the pioneers of the natural food industry, and President of MPW, he built the company into the leading natural food wholesaler in the west. In 1996, he co-founded United Natural Foods, to form the largest natural food distributor in the country. As President and CEO of UNFI, Michael led the company to sales of over 2.5 billion dollars. Michael is active in numerous industry and trade groups, and is the president of the Non-GMO Project. He also serves on the Boards of several environmental non-profit groups such as the Sierra Fund and the South Yuba River Citizens League.