Jennifer Mencarini

Jennifer has 25 years of experience in the food industry. She began her food industry career at Aidells Sausage Company where she managed the office, ran demos, and created marketing pieces for Bruce Aidell.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Safeway, InterLink Marketing Group, and Advantage Sales & Marketing had a notable influence on her vast experience. Jennifer started at Safeway as an Executive Assistant and was quickly promoted to Sr. Buyer in the sourcing department. Over the next 11 years she gained experience in sourcing ingredients and packaging for Safeway’s private label manufacturing plants as well as goods not for resale, and pre-packaged produce items for the retail side of the business.

After Albertsons and Safeway merged, she took that experience to the sales side of the business and joined InterLink Marketing Group. She brought a unique view of the entire process of bringing an item to market that proved valuable to her teammates. At InterLink, Jennifer managed the Luckys, Savemart, and Foodmax business, earning many accolades from her vendors for introducing new items, increasing sales on existing items, her out-of-box thinking, and persistence for getting the job done.

Jennifer enjoys spending time with her twin boys, Julian and Jacob. She also enjoys real estate investing and travel. She hopes one day to own some island property and off-road toys for family vacations with her boys. your paragraph here.

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Tony Festa

Tony’s career has taken him through many different paths.  Most recently, he learned the broker business working at Level One Marketing where he had the opportunity to work with a vast range of Clients, some as large as National Brands as well as Small Regional Brands and all types of companies in between.  At Level One he was taught the entire Sales Process as well as the Client Management skills that he is able to put to use today.  Prior to Level One, Tony served as regional sales executive for an advertising start up, successfully bringing in new advertisers when the company expanded into new states. The following four years were dedicated to Project Management, where he oversaw the Purchasing Department at The Raymond Group and honed the skills now being put into action every day for our partners.

Tony enjoys spending time and vacationing with his wife Greta, daughters Lucca, Lenoir and son Rocco.  He is borderline addicted to Crossfit and loves interacting with and meeting new people in his travels.

Mark Belshaw

Mark’s love for working with Costco goes way back… He worked in operations for Costco in the Bay Area region for over a decade. He started out working in the electronics department but was quickly promoted to Supervisor then to area manager. Mark managed all three areas on the floor at Costco and then was promoted to a staff level manager where he oversaw the entire morning stocking crew and was responsible the entire sales floor. After a couple years he was promoted to an assistant general manager where his responsibilities covered the entire operation of the location. Not only did Mark hone his merchandising skills he also learned what items “work” at Costco. During his final couple years at Costco Mark met his wife who is still working for Costco to this day. Right about 2010 Mark started working for one of his past warehouse managers, Jonathan Smith, at Level One Marketing and began selling to Costco. Jonathan taught Mark the business the rest is history. 
 
In Mark’s spare time you will probably catch him spending time with his wife Stacey and their daughter Ella. You may also see Mark riding his mountain bike around the foothills of the Eastbay trying to set PRs!​

Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer came to us in May 2019 and is very familiar with Costco. She worked at Costco for 30 years in the Bay Area Region with 17 years at the buildings and 13 years at the Bay Area Regional Buying office. She worked in foods as an ICS then was promoted Non-Foods Supervisor projecting sales for the following year, managing logistics and the flow of inventory. She Resigned in April 2019 to start a new chapter in her life. She really enjoys helping the Vendors and learning their side of the business and loves working for Innovative. 
 
In Jennifer’s spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband, family, friends and dogs. She enjoys movies, long walks with her dogs, hiking and loves going to Orange Theory Fitness.

Stacey Daggett

Stacey Daggett joined the Innovative team in the summer of 2017.Her addition to the company brings with her a passion for customer service and an ambitious and creative personality, guaranteed to foster long-time relationships with clients. Her history is deep rooted in Costco, as both of her parents were career Costco employees. Her father, C.J. Ray, is a well-loved former VP/GMM with Costco who, since Stacey was very young, introduced her to company concepts, business models, and executive colleagues. Stacey previously worked for Blue Sun Marketing where she learned about vendor relations and sales strategies. As a military spouse, she has lived in multiple states on both coasts; as a mother of three children, she has mastered the art and science of logistics. Stacey has also served as a real estate agent in multiple regions of the country. Her sharpened negotiating skills and her ability to get the deal closed carry seamlessly to the food business. Her compassion, jovial attitude and positivity are what make her unique, both to vendors and buyers. 

In her spare time Stacey enjoys the outdoors, fitness training, and spending time with her family. Her husband, three children and two dogs provide her with an abundance of love and adventure