Mike Lambert - Retail Specialist Panhandle

Mike was born in Minnesota.  Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Coatesville, Pennsylvania where he grew up.  After graduating from Coatesville High School, he joined the US Air Force.  His tour of duty took him to Germany and Italy, with his tour ending in Homestead, Florida.  He has attended Goldy Beacon Business School in Wilmington, Delaware; taken Dale Carnegie human relations and sales courses; and business economics and food marketing extension courses from Cornell University.

Mike has extensive food service and retail sales experience.  During his career, he has been a Direct Regional Sales Manager covering a seven-state territory and managing thirteen food retail brokers; a Retail Merchandiser and Supervisor; and an Account Executive of wholesale and chains for forty manufacturers.  For the past several years, he has been a Retail Salesman for Bud Suarez, Inc., which became Specialty Partners and then Natural Specialty Sales, a division of Acosta.

Church and family activities take up most of Mike’s leisure time.  Together, he and his wife have five children and 14 grandchildren.   Vacations are spent traveling and sightseeing different parts of our beautiful country, particularly the mountains.