There was a time at Harris Farm Markets, the country’s largest premium grocer, when its founders and their offspring would gather for meetings around a family-turned-board table to discuss business, even the minutiae such as the price of strawberries.

But as the group surpassed more than $1 billion in sales and continues its national expansion with plans to roll out almost a dozen more stores, the face of its boardroom is changing with external appointments, including that of David Baxby, the co-founder of Coogee Capital, who’s a former airline executive and investment banker.

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