Tops Friendly Markets recently promoted CHRIS CLARY, TOM SULSKI, MATT ROOT, and LACEY KLINKBEIL.

Clary, formerly assistant store manager at Tops in Pulaski, will now serve as store manager for the Hannibal Tops. He began his career in the grocery industry in 2000 as a cart clerk for the Fairmount P&C and then joined Tops in 2010 as an operations manager and has held several positions over the years.

Sulski joins the corporate team as category business manager of the natural/organic category. He was previously general manager of Orchard Fresh. Sulski joined Tops in 2000 as a cart associate at the Tops located at Delaware/Sheridan and worked his way up through the ranks to hold positions as grocery manager, non-perishable operations manager, and assistant store manager. 

Taking on the role of store manager at the North Boston, New York Tops is Matt Root of West Seneca. He was previously assistant store manager of the Tops on Maple Road in Amherst. Root has been an employee of Tops since 2004 where he started his career as a produce clerk. Since then he has held numerous positions in a variety of departments.

Klinkbeil joined Tops in 2008, working her way through store operations holding various management positions at stores throughout the chain in the front end, office, bookkeeping, price discipline, and floral departments. She brings a great deal of store experience to her new role as labor management scheduling specialist, overseeing the day to day management of the scheduling and functions of Tops labor management system. Klinkbeil holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Buffalo State College and an associate degree in criminal justice from Genesee Community College.

ANDREA GODFREAD-BROWN has joined the Harris Beach office in Syracuse after more than 10 years in private practice and another seven years as an in-house immigration counsel at Syracuse University. She is joining an immigration law team. In recent years she has specialized in representing hospitals and medical practice groups when they hire foreign-trained nurses, physicians, physician assistants, and other allied health professionals. Godfread-Brown earned her juris doctorate from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.