
	Ms. Lori A. Varlas has been the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Secretary of Central Garden &amp; Pet Co. since December 1, 2010 and serves as its Principal Accounting Officer. Ms. Varlas has over 26 years of extensive finance and operational experience. Ms. Varlas joined Central from Sun Microsystems where she served for four years and as a Vice President Finance-Enterprise Resources. Prior to Sun, she served as Vice President of Finance at Peoplesoft&nbsp;and held a variety of senior finance positions over a seven-year period. Ms. Varlas held senior finance positions at Chiron Corporation and Specialty Foods. Ms. Varlas began her career at Price Waterhouse where she served for seven years
