What roles has ed bambas held at united fresh and other trade associations?

1. Search results show gaps, not confirmations

Your specific name—Ed Bambas—does not appear in the supplied search results. The packet includes United Fresh pages, a 2020 government-relations hire announcement, and a 2019 board-nomination summary, yet none of those items name "Ed Bambas" or a matching variant ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Given that absence, any claim that Ed Bambas held particular roles at United Fresh would be unsupported by the available documents (not found in current reporting).

2. What United Fresh materials in this set do show

The provided United Fresh–related items include a staff or program page tied to the International Fresh Produce Association/United Fresh (an IFPA Emerging Leaders Program mention) and a Packer story about a senior director of government relations hire in November 2020 (John Hollay) ^{[3] [1]}. A 2019 United Fresh board nomination announcement is also present in a trade bulletin ^[2]. Those items demonstrate that United Fresh publishes personnel and governance updates — the kind of records where a role like "board member" or "staff officer" would usually be reported if it existed ^{[3] [1] [2]}.

3. Alternate explanations for the absence

There are several plausible reasons the packet contains no mention of Ed Bambas: the name could be misspelled in your query; the person may be active in a different national or regional "United Fresh" organization (the set includes a U.K. United Fresh site and a Companies House entry that are separate entities) ^{[4] [5]}; or the individual’s roles may predate or postdate the items provided and therefore are outside this collection ^{[4] [5]}. The supplied materials include a United Fresh UK site and a Companies House entry for UNITED FRESH CONSORTIUM LIMITED, illustrating there are multiple organizations and naming conventions where a person might be recorded ^{[4] [5]}.

4. Where you would normally verify roles

When a trade association appointment exists, it typically appears in: the association’s professional staff page or press release, industry trades press (e.g., The Packer), or board/committee nomination announcements — all of which are present in this packet but do not name Ed Bambas ^{[3] [1] [2]}. For a definitive answer one would check United Fresh’s official staff/leadership pages, archived press releases around likely appointment dates, industry trade titles, and corporate filings for related U.K. entities; those specific checks are not available in the current search results ^{[3] [5] [1] [2]}.

5. Competing possibilities and how sources would differ

If Ed Bambas had served in a senior United Fresh role (e.g., board officer, senior director, or committee chair), the association’s own news or The Packer-style industry outlets would normally publish an announcement — similar to the John Hollay hiring piece in the packet ^[1]. If instead Bambas worked for a regional United Fresh (U.K. or a private firm using the same name), company registries or local corporate sites would show it, like the Companies House entry for UNITED FRESH CONSORTIUM LIMITED and the U.K. United Fresh home page included here ^{[5] [4]}. Those records in the packet do not reference Bambas by name ^{[4] [5]}.

6. Recommended next steps to confirm roles

To produce a definitive list of roles for Ed Bambas, consult (a) United Fresh’s current staff and board web pages and press archive, (b) trade press archives (The Packer, Blue Book, industry newsletters) around likely appointment years, and (c) regional company registries if you suspect a U.K. or corporate United Fresh connection (the provided packet points to all three types of sources but contains no Bambas mention) ^{[3] [1] [2] [5] [4]}. Because those checks are standard and absent here, the correct journalistic posture is: available sources do not mention Ed Bambas in relation to United Fresh or other trade associations (not found in current reporting).

Limitations: This analysis relies solely on the documents you supplied; absence in those files is not evidence the person never held any roles elsewhere—only that the provided sources do not record such roles (not found in current reporting).