Southstream Seafoods' staff consists of a team of professionals whose commitment to service and quality has set new standards in the industry. We are proud to provide each of our staff a positive environment and the opportunity to achieve their goals.

Sales Team

Jim Correale
Account Representative

Jim came to Southstream in October of 2001 with over 19 years in the seafood industry. His in-depth knowledge in groundfish and snow crab give Jim a distinct advantage over the competition. A native New Englander, Jim graduated from Bryant College in 1983 with a BS in Business Administration.

Email: jimc@southstream.com

George Rooney
Account Representative

George, the most recent addition to our sales team, comes to Southstream with an extensive background in fresh as well as frozen seafood. In addition to seafood, George's experience in the hospitality industry has earned his customers' respect and admiration. George graduated from Becker College in Worcester Massachusetts in 1990.

Email: georger@southstream.com

Carmine Intrieri
Account Representative

Carmine joined Southstream Seafoods in 1995. Having completed his degree in Marketing at the University of Rhode Island College of Business in 1994, Carmine found his calling selling and marketing seafood.
Email: carminei@southstream.com

Patricia LaPointe
Account Representative

A native Rhode Islander, Patricia graduated from University of Rhode Island in 1977 with a BS in Physical Education. After stints as the manager of a health club, and an advertising sales representative, Patricia joined the Southstream team in 1995.
Email: patl@southstream.com

David Lerner
Account Representative

David, also a native Rhode Islander, has been with Southstream since 1992. He graduated from Bentley College with a BA in Marketing. Dave worked in the hi-tech industry until finding his true calling selling seafood.
Email: davidl@southstream.com

Olafur Gislason
Account Representative

Olafur co-founded Southstream in 1989 and has been instrumental in the growth of sales since that time. Olafur was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He graduated from Brown University in 1974 and has over 30-years experience in seafood and food-related business.
Email: olafurg@southstream.com

Tom Whiteside
Sales Manager

Tom joined Southstream in October 2000 and has over 20-years experience in the food industry. Having spent the last 10 years in sales and purchasing for a broadline foodservice distributor, Tom lends a unique perspective to the duties of Sales Management. Tom graduated from UCLA in 1988 with a degree in Fine Arts.

Email: tw@southstream.com

Christopher Pokorski
Vice President of Sales

Christopher graduated from the University of Vermont in 1989 with a degree in Economics. He came to Southstream within a year of graduation, just as we were turning one. Chris’s responsibilities include sales, sales management, purchasing and forecasting future sales for the company.
Email: chrisp@southstream.com

Mark Soderstrom
President

Mark has over 15-years experience selling seafood and is well-known in the industry nationally. His career in the seafood industry started during college packing fish on the Chatham Pier. He is a graduate of Northeastern University where he received his BS in Economics.
Email: marks@southstream.com