Brand Fuel is a Free-Spirited Brand Merchandising Agency delivering online stores, direct mail kits, event eXperiences, inspiration, results & having FUN along the way. Using the power of branded promotional products, we help our clients with:event and experience marketingincreased market shareaccelerated productivityreactivation of dormant accountsreferral programmingemployee retentionconsumer motivationbrand-buildingtradeshow traffic generationtraining enhancementtalent recruitmentbehavior changecreating safer workplacescustomer loyaltyWe would be honored to be able to put a little more fuel in your brand! Since its inception, Brand Fuel has won Best Places to Work, Best Website, Best Showroom, Best Boss, multiple Best National Marketing and Design awards, and is recognized in the top 1% of the industry in revenues. Our success is a result of this key ingredient: we love what we do. Brand Fuel has offices/showrooms on the edge of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, another in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, satellite offices in London, India, Georgia & South Carolina as well as manages its own Fulfillment Center.

Band Together is a 501c3 volunteer-driven non-profit whose mission is to use live music as a platform for social change, having donated over $11 million to local causes.Through the work of volunteers and tremendous sponsor and community support, Band Together NC has brought together thousands to our events and have donated $11 Million in proceeds to the community. Band Together puts on the Southeast's largest music event for charity and we are proud to call the Triangle area home and to have the privilege of serving our community.

A Place at the Table is a pay it forward nonprofit cafe that provides community and good food for all regardless of means. https://tableraleigh.org/

Appointed position focused on delivering member value in the $26 Billion promotional advertising market.

Does your organization need help packaging, labeling, or shipping? Gabi's is a NONPROFIT with a mission to empower the special abilities community to find their place in the job force through paid employment, access and fulfillment.

The IPPAG Cooperative is made up of over 35 market-leading corporate gift wholesalers and distributors spread across the world focusing on collaboration, sustainably, best practices and caring.

PromoCares' mission is to inspire, educate and provide actionable strategies to encourage social and environmental responsibility in the promotional products industry and our communities.

PromoKitchen is an all-volunteer, 501c3 non-profit organization led by professionals in the $20 billion dollar promotional products industry. Our story began in January 2011: a group of young promotional products professionals banded together to create a new voice for the industry. What started out as a casual email list has now blossomed into a blog that represents our myriad views and questions we have for the future of our industry. We called this PromoKitchen.PromoKitchen represents a cross section of the industry: suppliers, distributors and service providers, men and women, salespeople and business owners, young and the young at heart.We believe that best practice sharing is a good thing for an industry that is going through rapid change. We also believe in the power of community and how this industry can improve by establishing stronger connections between us all.PromoKitchen has two mandates:1. Education: We want to advance the industry through thought-provoking discussion on a variety of subjects (marketing, sales, technology, operations, productivity, creativity).2. Mentorship: We want to make the industry better for newer entrants and the idea is to match young superstars with some seasoned members in PromoKitchen.

I am proud to serve on the Board for The Triangle American Marketing Association as well as volunteer for The High Five Conference (http://www.highfiveconference.com/) Core Team.