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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 chooses to do various activities like playing soccer, 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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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 20+ years, Linda.  They have two children, Jack (college sophomore) and Sarah (high school senior).

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 10 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 Entertainment Weekly 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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Kerry joined O2 Marketing in 2009, ready to jump back into the work force after taking a several year sabbatical to be with her kids.  She is multi-talented with experience in Marketing, Advertising, Print Production and Sales. She brings a fresh perspective to O2 Marketing.

A University of San Diego graduate, Kerry lives in Orinda with her husband Eric, and two kids. She is still very involved with her kids' activities and school events, juggling schedules and demands at work and home. She enjoys vacations to Tahoe and Hawaii.

 

Kerry works hard to bring a high level of customer service to all her projects. Her broad experience adds to her professionalism. 

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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 and lacrosse) 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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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 fourteen years. Previously, she worked in the computer industry.

Sabina's pride and joy is her nineteen 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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