Staff
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Bruce Hoffman
General Manager
With the company since it’s inception in 1993, Bruce leads our team as General Manager. His well rounded produce knowledge and business savvy makes him one of the best in the business. He leaves no stone unturned when looking for that unique and hard to find ingredient your customers require as Bruce lives for the hunt and the satisfaction of providing our customers with the best possible service. An avid baseball fan and once an athlete until injury forced his retirement, he enjoys collecting sports memorabilia.
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Corry Laurendine
Sales Manager
Corry has been eating specialty produce her entire life and selling it for the past 19 years. Definitely a “foodie”, Corry’s time outside of the office is spent on anything culinary: browsing local markets, attending chef demos, seeking out new trends and ingredients and most often, eating, photographing and analyzing food. This passion for food gives her that special edge in feeding your needs as customers and thus a natural as Sales Manager. Coming from a restaurant and hospitality family, Corry has the perfect blend of specialty knowledge and customer service know-how.
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Lizandro Cisneros
Food Safety Coordinator / Director of Purchasing
With us for 7+ years now, Lizandro heads up our Food Safety program, including Organic oversight. His natural ability to find the best product for the best price has also landed him the important task of procurement which is the basis for us supplying the best product for our customers. An all around sports fan, his bias are of course for the home teams. Lizandro will engage in sports talk without prompting so feel free to invite some friendly banter.
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Rick Baltazar
Production Manager
Born into a farming family, Rick’s childhood was often spent planting, tending to, harvesting, washing, delivering and eating leeks. At 18 he joined the USAF to travel the world, learn a trade and eat something other than leeks. As fate would have it, he was shopping on base for groceries in Germany one day and what did he see but leeks, farmed and packaged by his father. Upon his return to civilian life Rick now embraced farming and eventually got involved with California Specialty Farms. Having been in the military, his knack for coordinating “mechanized troops” has lead to efficiencies in all departments of production. This with his invaluable knowledge of farming makes him a great Production Manager. His down time is often spent visiting various sports stadiums around the country with his kids.
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Accounting Team
Left to Right: Adriana Paez, Hugh Allan Vose, Carmencita Bataller
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Team California Specialty Farms