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Brian has over 20 years of successful sales leadership and management experience in the Hospitality industry. His most recent career venture helped grow Charter Furniture as the industry leader in the custom seating category. His responsibilities included managing Charter’s largest volume customer, Marriott International. He also spent 5 years as the Regional Sales Manager at Shelby William Industries.

Currently, Brian resides in Columbus. OH with his wife, Karen, and their two children.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – Providence College, 1993

John is a lifelong, 4th generation Chicagoan who has been in the Foodservice and Hospitality Sales industry since 1986. After graduating from the University Of Illinois Chicago with a marketing degree, John worked as a sales representative with the largest restaurant supply and equipment distributor in the country for 8 years, followed by 2 years as an Equipment and Supply Specialist for the largest foodservice distributor in the U.S. In 1996 he joined a Manufacturers’ Representative firm, becoming their VP of Sales and later a partner. He established his own firm, John Manson & Associates (JMA Marketing), in 2004.

John is the proud father of two grown daughters, and now resides in the near north suburbs with his wife Liz. He enjoys spending his weekend time with food & wine, gardening, and restoring his vintage home.

Gregory Fedurek joined us in 1988 after two and one half years in the field with a major china company as a factory representative. Prior to that position he spent five years with a leading food service operator in their field marketing department. Greg is responsible for sales in Michigan and resides in Farmington Hills.

BBA in Business Administration – Bowling Green State University, 1979

Jim Jacobs – joined Zink Corporation in May 2015. Jim’s 20+ years of sales experience have mainly been in the foodservice industry. He spent 16 years in Indiana & Michigan with a national food distributor. He is based at our Indianpolis office and manages Zink’s Tabletop and Smallwares lines throughout the state of Indiana.

Jim and his family live in Fishers Indiana

Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a Minor in Psychology

He attended Western Michigan University.

Erin attended Miami University and majored in Marketing.  Following graduation, she moved to Chicago and began her career in the insurance industry where she worked in Sales and Account Management. She joined Zink Corporation in October 2022 on the Inside Sales Team in the Lisle office.

Jordan attended Ohio Dominican University where she majored in Education. She began her food service career in 2007, when she became a service trainer for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in Hilliard, Ohio. She has worked within the restaurant industry for over 15 years. In 2020 she became an operations manager for Dave and Buster’s in Columbus, OH. In 2024 she left her position as the Hiring and Training manager to join the Zink Foodservice Inside Sales Team.