U.S. Foodservice, the Chicago area’s largest privately-held company, announced Friday that it appointed John Lederer as its new president, chief executive and a member of the company’s board of directors.

Lederer presently is chairman and CEO of Duane Reade, a New York-based drugstore chain recently acquired by Walgreen Co. At the Rosemont-based foodservice giant, he succeeds Robert Aiken, who resigned to join Chicago private equity firm Bolder Capital LLC earlier this year.

U.S. Foodservice, with annual revenues of approximately $19 billion, is jointly owned by funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.