Foodservice Marketing

How long have you been at BI?

Since October 1998

What do you do for Coalition Marketing?

I help Coalition Sponsors best leverage the tools available to them to connect with and motivate their operators

As a child, what did you want to “be when you grew up”?

I wanted to be a farmer. I pictured having my own land, livestock, tractors, and trucks. What little country boy wouldn’t!!

What’s your most prized possession?

My wife, Deanna, and kids, Reese, Sage, & Graham

What’s your most guilty pleasure?

Ice cream!! Shakes, sundaes, scoops, it doesn’t matter.

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How long have you been with BI?
9 years.

What’s the best thing about your job as Division Vice President?
I have a lot of variety in my job from sales, marketing and client service. I am also blessed to be working with such great people and terrific clients.

What is your earliest childhood memory?
Going to the golf course with my dad when I was 2 or 3, fully dressed in a cowboy outfit.

What did you want to ”be when you grow up”?
A professional golfer…much easier said than done.

What was your first job/worst job?
First job was as a paperboy, worst job was as a dishwasher in an awful restaurant.

What’s the one thing about you no-one would ever guess?
I was driving with my family to Colorado, and our car was hit by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass!

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
I haven’t done it yet.

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How long have you been with BI?
Mint joined BI in October 2006, and as founder of MINT my role goes back to 2000, a great year to start a new company!

What’s the best thing about your job as MD?
I get to work with a great team of people in our offices in Australia, Asia & the Middle East and now a great bunch of people at BI in the U.S. & U.K.

What is your earliest childhood memory?
Picking strawberries to put on my Corn Flakes before breakfast whilst living on a farm in England.

What’s the one thing about you no one would ever guess?
I love to cook for a bunch of friends and host long leisurely dinners at home on the weekend.

Do you have a motto that you live by/inspires you?
If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well!

What is your favourite gadget?
My BMW 335 Coupé, I haven’t worked out how most of the things work yet and I’ve had the car 9 months.

How long have you been with BI?

6 Months.

What do you do for Coalition Marketing?

I am a JAVA Developer, working on the development activites of the Coalition web sites.

As a child, what did you want to “be when you grew up”?

I wanted to be in Armed forces [Air Force] – Pilot.

Tell us about your first kiss: Who, When, Where?

When I studied 11th Std. A girl in the class (not remembering her name) in the play ground.

What’s your most prized possession?

Mom and Dad.

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How long have you been with BI?

Since October 2007.

What do you do for Coalition Marketing?

I call on new accounts and re-engage our current accounts that have not had recent activity.

What are your favorite books?

I enjoy referencing the Bible, as well as learning from books that talk about health and training horses.

What are your favorite movies:

Rat Race, Disney’s Robin Hood, Godfather I & II, The Natural, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Devil Wears Prada, You, Me, and Dupree, Seabiscuit, and the Parelli Natural Horsemanship At Liberty Series

What was the first concert you went to?

The Family Values Tour (KORN, Metallica, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000, System of a Down) and the Judds in the same month! I had and still have eclectic tastes.

Who was your childhood crush?

After watching 8 Seconds I knew Luke Perry/Lane Frost and I were meant for each other…I loved how “hot” Luke was but I loved the character he was playing, Lane. Later I found my real life “hot” cowboy!

What’s the best/worst thing about working on Foodservice Rewards?

I enjoy that fact that it is a program that gives back. I do not enjoy that fact that there are rude people who won’t take 5 seconds of their day to benefit a hospital or school.

What’s your most guilty pleasure?

Food….I can be a glutton!!

What’s one thing about you that no one would ever guess?

My experiences in life for my age. I have been to many places, achieved a number of goals, and have done a lot of crazy things (i.e. jumped cars, done acrobatics on horses, bridge jumping, etc.) I enjoy living life to the fullest and I credit my people skills and understanding of sales to all of these unique positions I have been in.

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How long have you been with BI?

Since June of 2007.

What do you do for Coalition Marketing?

I re-engage high volume Foodservice Rewards participants whose accounts have no activity. This entails contacting the participant by phone or other means and persuading them to enter codes. I also work on starting new high volume accounts by the same means.

Favorite Books/Movies?

Book: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Movie: Serenity

What is the first concert you went to?

Bob Dylan with my dad when I was 12. My first concert on my own was the Flaming Lips at First Avenue sometime in the early 90′s.

Who was your childhood crush?

Katarina Witt.

What’s the best/worst thing about working on Foodservice Rewards?

The constant improvement of the program, the feeling that we are creating an entirely new concept.

What’s your most guilty pleasure?

Heh Heh.

What’s one thing about you that no one would ever guess?

My age (born 1978).

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How long have you been with BI?

Just over 7 years.

What do you do for Coalition Marketing?

I’m a technical project manager for the operations team. I work with marketing and sales to come up with new enhancements to our Web sites and new promotional tools, and then work with the technical team to turn the concepts into reality.

What’s your most prized possession?

My Cleveland Gun Metal Sand Wedge. Being a bad golfer forces me to be good “around” the greens.

What’s your most embarrassing moment at work?

While on a phone with a client, I tried to say “You’re Welcome” and “No problem” at the same time and it came out “You’re Problem”!

What’s the best/worst thing about working on Foodservice Rewards?

Overhearing Ray’s customer service phone calls all day long.

Favorite Books/Movies?

Favorite book: Band of Brothers
Favorite movie: Napoleon Dynamite

Who was your childhood celebrity crush?

A toss up between Winnie from the Wonder Years and Kelly from Saved by the Bell.

What’s one thing about you that no one would ever guess?

Typically it’s my age although that’s slowly catching up to me. I turn 30 this year summer although I was recently carded for buying lottery tickets by a teenager who exclaimed “Whoa, you look young dude!”

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