As vice president of sales, East Coast and director of the grape category, Josh Leichter manages the sales and marketing force in Oppenheimer's Eastern offices, including Wilmington, DE, Chicago, IL and Tampa, FL and is responsible for the go-to-market approach for our grape business.

Josh joined our company in June 2002 as a sales representative in the Los Angeles office. He was promoted to East Coast director of sales in September 2005, and became the director of Oppenheimer’s second largest category, grapes, in May 2006. In January 2010, Josh was elevated to vice president, East Coast, overseeing our business with customers in the Eastern U.S. and Canada.

In his time with us, Josh has successfully forged and strengthened business relationships with retailers, suppliers, and interdepartmentally within our own company. He managed supply and built demand for our Mexican greenhouse vegetables and for premium air-shipped berries and stone fruit from and New Zealand.