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With the Owners of Wild West Snacks:
“Supporting our Troops with Healthy Beef Jerky”
December 13, 2009
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Support Our Troops with
Show Outline
·Wild West Snacks Supports Talking With Heroes
·What Makes the Jerky Guy Better
·Multi-National Product Aligns with The Jerky Guy
·We Love Our Troops
·Wild West Snacks Teams With The Knights of Columbus
·"The Best Jerky I Ever Had and Never Heard Of"…
·Engaging the Pentagon
·Something for the Kids Back Home
·Get Involved With Our Care Package Program
The Jerky Guy®
The Jerky Guy – truly a healthy snack, high in Protein and low in Carbohydrates. Our jerky is the only one cut across the grain, making it incredibly tender. But the bottom line is, “It tastes Great!”
You’ll agree that The Jerky Guy is a great product once you learn it has No Artificial Additives. It is the most flavorful jerky on the market today.
You’ll find only natural ingredients in The Jerky Guy. Most other jerkys contain ingredients such as Sodium Nitrite, MSG, Sodium Erythorbate, Phosphates and Liquid Smoke.
http://www.wildwestsnacks.com/TWH.htm
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Thank you to the following for making this program possible:
Anthony Nicoli and Carl DeSalvo with Wild West Snacks
Eric Chia with www.chiaweb.com
Ralph Manfredo with Knights of Columbus
HOST: Bob Calvert
GUESTS:
Anthony Nicoli
Vice President of Marketing, Wild West Snacks
www.WildWestSnacks.com
Anthony Nicoli currently drives sales and marketing for Wild West Snacks. He helped Carl DeSalvo form Wild West Snacks in 2005. Together, they have made healthy snacks available through a broad variety of venues. He has led efforts to test market The Jerky Guy in the states of WA, OR and CA. He opened both the OR and southern CA branches of the company and is responsible for promotion, distributor development and public relations.
Prior to this role, Mr. Nicoli contributed to Mentor Graphics as the Marketing Director for the Calibre physical verification, parasitic extraction and DFM product lines. In this role, he led a global marketing organization. He joined Mentor Graphics in 1999, and drove the Calibre product line to market leadership, growing revenue from $20M to $250M annually. His team set the development agenda for Calibre’s future versions, and crafted solutions to the physical verification and DFM challenges of 45nm and 32nm technology.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Mr. Nicoli spent 16 years in the defense industry. There, he led projects to develop advanced electronic warfare systems incorporating full-custom integrated circuits manufactured using the fabless business model.
He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
He also holds an MBA from Northeastern University
Anthony Nicoli
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Carl DeSalvo,
President & CEO
Wild West Snacks
www.WildWestSnacks.com
Carl started Wild West Snacks in 2005, to promote truly good tasting Beef Jerky, and develop a health food snack company.
Carl has developed a successful internet business, a distribution network, secured a long term mutually exclusive five State business contract with a Pepsi distributor, support our Troops with donations and currently bringing the first Jerky marketed to parents and children which is certified by the USDA as being Organic and meets school nutritional requirements.
Finally, this is a healthy snack to replace the junk food which has been removed from our schools.
After University he moved to California where he gained 25 years of high tech experience in the Semiconductor Industry. Carl is also the President & CEO of EDATechForce, an Electronic Design Automation Sales and Technical Support representation company.
Carl also has vast multi-cultural experience, having lived and worked in Europe for over three years.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
Carl DeSalvo
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Mark Hogan
CEO, Government Sales Force (Washington, D.C.)
Mr. Hogan comes to GSF with over 28 years of specific, relevant, successful sales experience to the Federal Government. He was personally responsible for building successful Federal Government Divisions for Oracle and BEA Systems.
As VP and General Manager of BEA Government Systems, Mr. Hogan grew revenue from less than $2 million to over $150 million in less than three years.
Prior to BEA, he was VP of World Wide Government Sales for one of the largest Internet streaming media firms as well as VP of World Wide Sales and General Manager of the largest electronic records management company selling to governments around the world.
In the mid-80’s, Mark was instrumental in starting Oracle’s Federal practice.
A recognized expert in selling to the government, he is a frequent speaker on the subject and has guest lectured at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland as well as Harvard Business School on Selling to the Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. Hogan holds a BS in Business Management from George Mason University.
Mark Hogan
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RALPH P. MANFREDO
Knights of Columbus
Ralph is a 4th Degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus. He is also the District Deputy for California District 27 where he guides and helps Knights of Columbus Councils in his District. In this position, he represents the Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson and the State Deputy Vincente Pacis as they relate to the operation of the Councils in his District. This is a key position in the Knights of Columbus hierarchy and is appointed by the Supreme Knight at the request of the State Deputy.
He has held this position annually for the last three years. He is also the Chapter Vice President of the San Jose, CA Chapter. Two years ago he served as the Chairman of the California Knights of Columbus Annual Convention Golf Tournament held in San Jose.
In addition Ralph is currently Northern California Committeeman Round Table and New Counsel Development. This position helps promote Knights of Columbus Councils select Parishes in Northern California that do not have a Knights of Columbus council in their parish so that the Knights of Columbus can provide support and help at those parishes.
Ralph has also held the position of Council Grand Knight for three terms and Assembly Past Faithfull Navigator in the Fourth Degree.
PROFESSIONAL CARRIER
Ralphs professional carrier spans over 15 successful years of product planning, strategic planning, product marketing and product line management experience at the following companies:
· BroadBand Networks Corporation – President & CEO
· Nuko Information Systems, Inc. – Director Product Line Management
· Cylink Corporation – Product Line Manager
· Spectrum Networks Corporation – President & CEO
· California Microwave Inc. – V.P., Marketing and Sales
· Ferranti Datacom, Inc. – V.P., Marketing & Sales
· GE Calma Company, - Corporate Platform Manager
· Ricoh Corporation, - Product line Manager
EDUCATION
B.S.E.E. major - Syracuse University
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the National Association of Broadcasters
Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Wireless Communications Alliance
Ralph Manfredo
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