Published mark

UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC

NYSE: UNFI. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

US

Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
Follow companySave PDF
Alpha ID
alpha:company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1
SEC CIK
0001020859
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 16, 2026
Newest evidence
Nov 5, 2025
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
David BestPresident and Chief Executive Officer, Retail
Chair
Jack Stahl
Independent
Not published7 directors published
Published claims
382 distinct sources
Evidence records
50 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 2 distinct sources and 5 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works

DIRECTOR APPOINTED

Daphne J. Dufresne seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.

EffectiveEffective Nov 5, 2025E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
President of Conventional Grocery Products and Chief Commercial OfficerLois M. MartinNov 2025currentSource reportedE4
Chief Human Resources OfficerDanielle BenedictNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
President and Chief Executive Officer, RetailDavid BestNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Executive OfficerJ. Alexander (Sandy) Miller DouglasNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
President of Conventional Grocery Products and Chief Commercial OfficerLouis MartinNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
General Counsel and Corporate SecretaryMahrukh HussainNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
President of Natural, Organic, Specialty and Fresh Products and Chief Supply Chain OfficerMark BushwayNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
President and Chief Financial OfficerMatteo TarditiNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2
Chief Corporate Affairs OfficerMatthew EcholsNot capturedunknownSource reportedE2

Board of directors

Evidence

7 directors published. Independence determinations are not published for every director.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Daphne J. DufresneIndependence not published2025COMPENSATION COMMITTEE, chairSource reportedE3
Gloria R. BoylandIndependence not published2025COMPENSATION COMMITTEENominating and Governance Committee, chairSource reportedE3
James C. PappasIndependence not published2020COMPENSATION COMMITTEENominating and Governance CommitteeSource reportedE3
James L. MuehlbauerIndependence not published2025Audit Committee, chairSource reportedE3
James M. LoreeIndependence not published2025Audit CommitteeSource reportedE3
Lynn S. BlakeIndependence not published2025Audit CommitteeNominating and Governance CommitteeSource reportedE3
Shamim MohammadIndependence not published2025Audit CommitteeCOMPENSATION COMMITTEESource reportedE3
J. Alexander (Sandy) Miller DouglasNot independentNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2
Jack StahlIndependentChairNot publishedNominating and Governance CommitteeSource reportedE2
Michael S. FunkIndependentNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
Audit CommitteeJames L. MuehlbauerJames L. Muehlbauer, James M. Loree, Lynn S. Blake, Shamim MohammadNot described in the published record
COMPENSATION COMMITTEEDaphne J. DufresneDaphne J. Dufresne, Gloria R. Boyland, James C. Pappas, Shamim MohammadNot described in the published record
Nominating and Governance CommitteeGloria R. BoylandGloria R. Boyland, Jack Stahl, James C. Pappas, Lynn S. BlakeNot described in the published record
Committee RecordAudit Committee: Chair James L. Muehlbauer; Members James L. Muehlbauer (Chair); James M. Loree; Lynn S. Blake; Shamim Mohammad
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_record:24
Committee AppointmentJames L. Muehlbauer: chair, Audit Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:25
Committee AppointmentJames M. Loree: member, Audit Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:26
Committee AppointmentLynn S. Blake: member, Audit Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:27
Committee AppointmentShamim Mohammad: member, Audit Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:28
Committee RecordCOMPENSATION COMMITTEE: Chair Daphne J. Dufresne; Members Daphne J. Dufresne (Chair); Gloria R. Boyland; James C. Pappas; Shamim Mohammad
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_record:29
Committee AppointmentDaphne J. Dufresne: chair, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:30
Committee AppointmentGloria R. Boyland: member, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:31
Committee AppointmentJames C. Pappas: member, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:32
Committee AppointmentShamim Mohammad: member, COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:33
Committee RecordNominating and Governance Committee: Chair Gloria R. Boyland; Members Gloria R. Boyland (Chair); Jack Stahl; James C. Pappas; Lynn S. Blake
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_record:34
Committee AppointmentGloria R. Boyland: chair, Nominating and Governance Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:35
Committee AppointmentJack Stahl: member, Nominating and Governance Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:36
Committee AppointmentJames C. Pappas: member, Nominating and Governance Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:37
Committee AppointmentLynn S. Blake: member, Nominating and Governance Committee
Source reportedE5
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:committee_appointment:38

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerDavid Best, President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail
Source reportedE2
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:leadership_role:16
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
bind
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingUNFI (NYSE)
Source reportedE1
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:security_listing:39
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 16, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
Source reportedE1
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

This record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.

Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
5 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 16, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    SEC DEF 14A 0001020859-25-000058
    sec def 14a. Published Nov 5, 2025. Retrieved Sep 14, 2026. Cited by 11 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    DEF 14A unfi-20251105.htm
    sec proxy. Published Nov 5, 2025. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 7 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    UNFI DEF 14A executive officers
    sec filing. Published Nov 5, 2025. Retrieved May 5, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    Audit Committee
    governance_people_committees. sec proxy. Cited by 15 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 16, 2026
  • Daphne J. Dufresne seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • James L. Muehlbauer seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • James M. Loree seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • Lynn S. Blake seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • Shamim Mohammad seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • Lois M. Martin executive of UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-11-05.
  • Gloria R. Boyland seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2025-01-01.
  • James C. Pappas seat on UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC, effective 2020-01-01.
Appearance

Alpha Governance PBC. The Registry records reported facts and Alpha's assessments separately. A missing fact is not evidence that it is false.

Record alpha:company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1, version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce. https://registry.alpha.ac/companies/united-natural-foods-inc

Navigate

On this record

  1. Overview
  2. Monitoring4
  3. Leadership9
  4. Board10
  5. Committees3
  6. Control and voting0
  7. Authority to act4
  8. Financials1
  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people18
  17. Subject and corrections6
  18. Evidence5
  19. Version historyvpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

Linked records

Registry

Appearance

esc
  • Actions
    Switch to agent viewJSON, Markdown, MCP
  • Copy Alpha IDalpha:company:aa047a86-58cf-4034-99a6-9949ffcb0ee1
  • Cite this recordUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • Copy canonical URLregistry.alpha.ac/companies/united-natural-foods-inc
  • Copy as MarkdownWith assertion states
  • Report an error
  • Theme: System
  • Theme: Light
  • Theme: Dark
  • Records
    UNITED NATURAL FOODS INCCompany
  • Lois M. MartinPerson
  • Danielle BenedictPerson
  • David BestPerson
  • J. Alexander (Sandy) Miller DouglasPerson
  • Louis MartinPerson
  • Mahrukh HussainPerson
  • Mark BushwayPerson
  • Matteo TarditiPerson
  • Matthew EcholsPerson
  • Daphne J. DufresnePerson
  • Gloria R. BoylandPerson
  • James C. PappasPerson
  • James L. MuehlbauerPerson
  • James M. LoreePerson
  • Lynn S. BlakePerson
  • Shamim MohammadPerson
  • Jack StahlPerson
  • Michael S. FunkPerson
  • Sections
    OverviewUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • MonitoringUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • LeadershipUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • BoardUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • CommitteesUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • Control and votingUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • Authority to actUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • FinancialsUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • GovernanceUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • RiskUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • AI oversightUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
  • LegalUNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
↑ ↓ move↵ openThis record only

Report an error

Reports attach to the Claim and go to an Alpha analyst through the correction form. Corrections are versioned, and the original stays in history.