
Brescome Barton recognized 25 employees for individual 2017 sales achievements during an award ceremony at its North Haven headquarters on January 12. General Sales Manager Steve Lentz led the ceremony, highlighting each award recipient. Brescome Barton President and CEO Gene Sepe gave closing remarks. “This room is loaded with talent. To win one of these awards, look around you … there’s some tough competition. It’s really an accomplishment.” Sepe continued, “When all our groups are working together, our zone managers are working with our ADMs [who] are working with our merchandisers to support the sales force, that’s when we get a lot of our results done.”
- Steve Lentz, General Sales Manager, Brescome Barton, announced each sales achievement award.
- North Zone Sales Achievements: Dan Waldron, Michele Kobryn, Jeff Johnson and Shailesh Patel.
- South Zone Sales Achievements: Stephanie Guarino, Jon Wichman, Andy Godek and Jeff D’Andrea.
- Rookie Sales Reps of the Year: Paul Gallagher, Stephanie Niemiroski and Colin Mehanne.
- Most Improved Sales Reps of the Year: Andy Godek, Harrison Lote and Frank Ponte.
- Chris Colter, Sterling Beer Sales Person of the Year; Stephanie Niemiroski, Draft Queen of the Year; and Armando Binelli, North-South Beer Sales Person of the Year.
- Will Devine, Merchandiser of the Year.
- Pete Lasse, Zone Manager of the Year, South Division. Not pictured: Zone Manager of the Year, North Division, Janine Boisvert.
- Cara Lynch-Passerelli, Account Development Manager, ADM of the Year North Division and Veronica Saurett, Account Development Manager, ADM of the Year, South Division.
- Salespersons of the Year: Andrew O’Reilly, North Division; Steve Hart, Sterling Division; John Bongiorno, South Division.