As the Corporate Director of Diversity Affairs for Safeway Inc., Tim Williams is charged with implementing and executing external diversity initiatives for the nation’s second largest conventional retail grocery chain based on sales. Tim’s responsibilities within Safeway include spearheading the Company’s diversity outreach efforts, ensuring minority communities share in the $200 million in product and cash contributions donated annually. He has built a supplier diversity process that does not act merely as a gateway, but rather as a tool to overcome barriers.

Tim is a member of several organizations and boards of directors, including the 100 Black Men of America Inc. and the National Black MBA Association. He is also a member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s Food and Beverage Committee and serves as the chairman of the Food Marketing Institute’s Supplier Diversity Committee based in Washington.

Favorite Quote :“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Arthur Baldwin

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