Gene Clark
CEO
Clark Associates

Gene Clark is the CEO of Clark Associates, a collective of dynamic companies leading the food service industry in equipment, supplies and service. Its businesses include e-commerce site, WebstaurantStore.com, 11 brick-and-click Restaurant Stores in the northeast, and 4 specialty channels, Clark Food Service Equipment, 11400 Inc., Clark National Accounts, and Hometown Provisions. These differing units allow Clark Associates to serve every type of foodservice customer from independent restaurants to institutions to some of the world’s largest restaurant chains. Clark Associates has 5,000 employees in 17 states and is celebrating its 50^th Anniversary this year. 

A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, Gene received the Foodservice Equipment Reports’ Young Lion Award, which recognizes rising leaders who have begun to have a meaningful impact in the foodservice industry, in 2019 and in 2020, he received the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association Volunteer of the Year award.