As president of Food Lion, an Ahold Delhaize USA company, Meg Ham oversees all aspects of the regional brand’s operations, including financial performance, merchandising, pricing, customer service, marketing and strategy. For more than 30 years, Ham has built her career as a food retailer, focused on the value of service to customers and associates. Ham joined the Delhaize America (now Ahold Delhaize USA) family of supermarkets in 1988. Her wide-ranging leadership roles have included leading brand operations for Bottom Dollar Food, Bloom, Food Lion, Harveys and Reid’s, as well as overseeing dry merchandising initiatives, with responsibilities for perishable and nonperishable product procurement and merchandising. She has been active in Food Lion's pricing strategies, integrating its supply chain with its sister supermarket chains, and leading efforts to maximize in-store merchandising. She also held a variety of leadership roles at Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford Supermarkets, another Ahold Delhaize USA brand, for more than 10 years. Originally from central New York, Ham, who now resides in North Carolina, earned a B.S. in business management and marketing from Cornell University. She was the fourth recipient of the distinguished 2015 Trailblazer Award from Progressive Grocer and the Network of Executive Women (Now NextUp) in 2015