Sales Team

Kate Marsh – Kate has trained food service professionals nationally since 2005. Her in-depth knowledge and understanding of all NUTRIKIDS software products will provide insight for building and maintaining a successful food service operation. Kate's diverse background includes the operation of a successful bakery and catering business, and also includes sales management for food service related products. As a parent, grandparent and gourmet cook, nutrition is as important to her as it is to you! Let Kate help you prepare a food service solution for your district.

Brian Thomas – After nearly a decade of business to business Sales and Marketing experience in a variety of roles, Brian is the most recent addition to the NUTRIKIDS sales team. His extensive knowledge of the technology offered in today's marketplace will provide valuable insight into creating a reliable food service operation solution for our nation's schools. With his technical expertise, combined with his experience as a parent, Brian is able to bring a unique perspective to the K-12 food service operation's requirements. At the end of the day it is his goal to provide the best software solutions for your food service needs.

Debbie Ricks – With nineteen years of school foodservice background, and more than ten years with NUTRIKIDS, Debbie has trained thousands of foodservice professionals, including school districts, management companies, state agencies, and USDA personnel. Drawing from her wide experiences as a cafeteria cook, cashier, manager, and foodservice director, she's uniquely qualified to partner with school districts to help determine their software needs. Her goals are to make your daily responsibilities easier to achieve.

Pete Belknap – After twelve years with IBM in a variety of sales and sales management positions, Pete joined NUTRIKIDS in 2002. Today he manages our western U.S. region from our Roseville, California office. He has been selling foodservice related software to school districts of all sizes since 1991, giving him tremendous experience and insight into foodservice operations and user requirements.

Joe DeGraeve – Joe has been involved with the K-12 technology field for nearly a decade, having worked as an IT technician and SIS "Student Information Systems" administrator for a local school district. He joined NUTRIKIDS in 2002, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and experience. His technical expertise and advanced training background gives him acute insights into a district's needs, and helps him work with them to decide on the best possible application to meet those needs.

Nancy Gallo – Nancy joined the NUTRIKIDS team in 2009 as a Sales Support Coordinator. Her main focus is supporting the sales effort by responding to Request for Proposals/Bids, assisting customers with additional purchase needs and being the liaison to the Regional Account Managers throughout the country. She brings to the team over 25 years of business experience. Nancy is customer focused with strong relationship building and organizational skills providing customers with a high level of satisfaction.

Roy Olson – After eighteen years of K-12 experience, Roy Olson has seen just about every way a school can feed a child, from food-court high schools to classroom-feeding elementary schools. He has successfully run self-supporting programs, helped design new kitchens, passed numerous CREs "Coordinated Review Effort" and SMI (School Meals Initiative). He fully understands the challenges of today's foodservice operation. With two school age children of his own, he approaches his profession not only as a sales consultant and past foodservice director, but also as a parent. You can be confident that he will guide you to the products and services that will best meet your needs.