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Katie joined O2 Marketing in 2001, after spending 6 years selling potato products for Basic American Foods.  She utilizes her previous work experience, Political Science degree from UOP and 4 years in Washington, D.C. to manage the challenging aspects of her business.

She is called "Kissing Kate" by the O2 team since she is always coming up with suggestions and ideas to help O2 and her clients, kissing up to everyone. She is always the one with great brainstorming ideas.

During her non-working hours, she spends time with her two great kids-Molly and Max and her husband Burke.   Managing all the activities, volunteering, school, girl scouts, soccer, piano and swimming is another organizational challenge!  When she takes time for herself, she like to do various activities like running/working out, dancing, knitting and spending time with friends.

She enjoys working in the promotional products industry and continues to grow and prosper by working hard, playing fair and having fun!

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Barney Garcia joined O2 Marketing in 2008. He’s grown up in the Bay Area all his life and now resides in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. He attended the University of San Francisco graduating with a B.S in Business Administration and with an emphasis in Marketing. In college, Barney was V.P of USF’s first Sports Business Club and a member of the American Marketing Association. He is hoping to go back and obtain his M.B.A.

Barney has several years experience in customer service and sales oriented industries. Barney hopes his enthusiasm for marketing  rubs off on his clients and he hopes to bring his clients fresh, creative, well-thought out marketing programs that will give them the results they desire. .

In his spare time, he runs an underground hip hop blog, enjoys the California weather, roots for his favorite basketball and soccer teams, and he volunteers for humanitarian organizations, fighting for worker and immigrant rights.

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Delivering the Contra Costa Times in 1976 was Jeff Gidre's first inkling that a career in sales lay ahead.  With additional business preparation in life guarding, pool management and a degree from Santa Clara in history, Jeff decided to launch a career selling promo items.

More than 20 years later Jeff is a partner with O2 Marketing + Design, Inc.  It just goes to show you that careful career preparation, hard work and a complete trust in the unknown can lead to success.  Jeff now heads the sales team and also actively works with customers and vendors in the field.  If you work with Jeff you can tell that his customer service strengths are deep rooted in keeping customers happy! 

Raised in Moraga, CA Jeff now lives in Lafayette (a whopping 2 miles away) with his soul mate of 18 years, Linda.  They have two children, Jack (nearly driving) and Sarah (8th grade math whiz).

In his spare time, Jeff frustrates himself with golf, family operations and commuting.  Jeff's mom Marie is very proud of her son's accomplishments!

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Kevin attended the Rhode Island School of design, graduating with a BFA in Illustration. He lived In Manhattan for three years, literally a starving artist. Moving on to Florida, he worked for BIC Pen for three years.  He was blissfully unaware that he would return to the Promotional Marketing industry 15 years later.

Since then he has had many Graphic Design positions, mostly in the Newspaper Industry as a production artist. In his coveted free time, he likes print making and metal sculpture.

When he's not at work most of his time is spent with his 6 year old son Gavin whose schedule is pretty busy with Cub Scouts, basketball and school events and activities.  Kevin's wife Virginia works in San Francisco for Time Warner as a Sales Manager, for All You magazine.

Kevin enjoys working at O2 Marketing + Design since they gave him a brand new MAC and an office with windows AND feed him lots of food, another very important aspect to keeping the artist happy.

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After pursuing a professional career in athletics, Jontae joined O2 Marketing + Design in 2004.  Jontae brings years of experience in marketing and event planning.  Prior to joining O2, Jontae played a vital role to the success of many Coca-Cola sporting event promotions for Hoop It Up, the San Jose SaberCats, and the San Francisco 49ers. 

He coordinated events and implemented strategic promotions to increase awareness at the sporting events.  Previously, Jontae ran a summer program called PC-MEP to expose minority youth to the field of engineering.  He lead a two-teacher and four-engineering aide team, increasing enrollment and orchestrating the training of more than 100 youths.

Jontae earned his BA in Marketing from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN.  Jontae was born in San Jose, CA, and grew up in South Bend, IN.  He enjoys playing basketball, bowling, and DDR.

Jontae has great leadership abilities, motivational skills, and work ethic.  Once his eyes are fixed on a goal . . . He will achieve it. 

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After 13 years of working for other companies, Meg O'Dea started O2 Marketing + Design with 5 other partners in 2000. Her degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley comes in handy when helping a client design their projects. She focuses on growing her customers as well as connecting with all of O2's customers through her marketing efforts. She excels at working on projects from the early design stages to product fulfillment. Her clients depend on her experience and reliability.

She enjoys hanging out with her family, daughter Casey, son Connor and husband Patrick. She not only cheers for them at their sporting events (water polo, lacrosse, soccer, basketball) but she also plays water polo for a Master's Women's club. She also volunteers at her kids' schools, torturing them by chaperoning dances and working on class events. Juggling events and projects at work and home are the norm for her.

Meg takes the O2 credo to heart - Work Hard, Play Fair and Have Fun.

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Bridgette has worked in the Customer Service/Administrative and Sales Support for over 15 years and brings experience from such organizations as California State Automobile Association, The Oakland Realtors Association, and The American Red Cross. Entering the world of Promotional Marketing was a challenge that Bridgette faced with enthusiasm, and she hopes that her enthusiasm rubs off on her colleagues and clients.

Instead of going off to college immediately after high school, Bridgette embarked on a cross country trek where she learned what she calls "Rules to Live By". In keeping with her rules, Bridgette spends a great deal of time volunteering locally in her community, coordinating health education classes for ESL students and their parents, door to door voter registration for seniors and minority community members, as well as being a voice for those who otherwise wouldn't have one.
(Bridgette has a big mouth).

When time allows, Bridgette cheers her heart out for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Golden State Warriors. She also plays co-ed softball during the summer with her family and sings occasionally with her sister's band in various Bay Area Venues.

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Sabina Rica is a co-founder of O2 Marketing + Design, Inc. and has taken a major role in the company since its inception in 2000. She is Secretary of O2 as well as Director of Finance and Human Resources.

She has been working in the field of "promotional marketing finance" for about ten years. Previously, she worked in the computer industry.

Sabina's pride and joy is her fifteen year old daughter, Cassandra, as well as her husband, Les. She enjoys listening to country music, sports, traveling the world, and reading. Her favorite baseball team is the A's. She is multi-talented with a degree in Accounting and her Real Estate license. She may consider law school at some point.

After twenty-two years of dreading jury duty, she finally decided to become a U.S. citizen, and since the year 2004, she has voted in every election. She knows more about our country than most native citizens.

Even though her day-to-day duties are in keeping O2 profitable through low overhead and high receivables, Sabina has the most generous nature. She is still giving holiday gifts to her daughter's elementary school teachers.

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Ahmad joined O2 in 2008, bringing with him a conscientious attitude to seek and present solutions to clients and a talent for identifying opportunities and formulating appropriate actions within a timely manner..

His most recent venture was with a skincare manufacturing company for spas and clinics across the nation. Prior to that he was a wholesale banker ensuring brokers’ submitted high quality loans and working closely with the broker to satisfy their clients..

In his free time he enjoys an occasional football game or a movie. If it’s a great sunny day in California, he prefers to be outdoors in one of the many outings the golden state has to offer. He has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. He has lived in Concord since 1989 and, before that, in Chicago and Afghanistan. He enjoys football, martial arts, politics and debates…though not all together…except with his brothers.

 

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Nathan attended the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise where he discovered an interest in retail products. His first job was making prosthetic limbs. In 1997, he moved to San Francisco. He worked in the retail packaging industry, owning Retailshoppingbags.com for several years. He joined O2 Marketing + Design in 2008 where he takes his extensive industry knowledge to his customers. You might say that he's got ideas in the bag!.

                                                                         

He is a TV junkie with his favorites including reality shows, golf, football and basketball. These help him nurture his competitive streak – by rooting for his teams and strategizing moves for the reality show players. He also enjoys playing golf and going to the beach..

 

From shopping bags to embroidered shirts, Nathan covers his clients’ promotional marketing needs!

 

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