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Kathleen Smith, VP of LP
Safeway, Inc.

Kathleen Smith, CFI, is vice president of loss prevention for Safeway where she is responsible for security and loss prevention for over 1,700 stores in the U.S. and Canada, thirty-three manufacturing facilities, twenty warehouse facilities, and buying offices worldwide.

With over twenty years of security management and law enforcement experience, Smith is past chairperson of the Food Marketing Institute’s loss prevention committee. She is also on the advisory committee for the Center for Interviewer Standards and Assessment, the loss prevention committee for the California Grocers Association, and the board of directors for California Shopping Cart Retrieval Corporation.

Smith has earned a master’s degree in communications from Pepperdine University, Advanced Police Officer Standards and Training certificate from the State of California, and was elected to the "Who’s Who of American Women" in 1999. Smith is also a Certified Forensic Interviewer.

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