<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%"> Washington, D.C.</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By Eric Anderson<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">3.25.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Supervalu has announced two new additions to its executive team. The announcement comes as Sam Duncan, President and Chief Executive Officer, continues finalizing his leadership team following the sale of five retail banners to AB Acquisition LLC, a transaction that was completed March 21, 2013.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img class="small-cropped-image" src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacySmallCroppedImages/michele-murphy-headshot.jpg" alt="Monday, MARCH 25 2013 IMAGES " />Michele Murphy has been named Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications for the company. She has served in roles with Morgan Lewis, an international law firm as well as positions of augmenting responsibility at Albertsons and Supervalu. She replaces Dave Pyplipo who will leave the company at the end of April.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img class="small-cropped-image" src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacySmallCroppedImages/randy-burdick-headshot.jpg" alt="Monday, MARCH 25 2013 IMAGES " />Randy Burdick has been named Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer for the company as of March 25. He will be responsible for Supervalu’s information technology infrastructure and personnel as well as the shared service/contact center organization. He joins Supervalu after spending the past eight years as Chief Information Officer at OfficeMax.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">He joins the company with over 28 years in a variety of technology leadership positions, including Group Information Officer at Hewlett-Packard and Chief Information Officer at Advanced Micro Devices. He replaces Kathy Persian, who has served in the role since September 2012.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img class="small-cropped-image" src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacySmallCroppedImages/A_Herring-headshot.jpg" alt="Monday, MARCH 25 2013 IMAGES " />J. Andrew Herring, Executive Vice President, Real Estate, Market Development and Legal, will depart the company with the transaction completed. Herring joined SUPERVALU in February 1998 and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 1999.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.supervaluinvestors.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=93272&p=irol-irHome" target="_new">Supervalu </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
