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 | Carl Sweat - President & Chief Executive Officer
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Carl Sweat brings significant beverage industry experience to The FRS Company. Prior to joining FRS, Carl served as Senior Vice President at Starbucks, overseeing the Global Beverage unit. Previously, Carl spent 22 years at Coca-Cola, North America, most recently as the President and General Manager of FUZE Beverage LLC, where he grew the value of the enterprise and significantly increased profitability. During his tenure with the company, Carl held various general management and brand marketing positions, helping to launch Coke Zero and overseeing brand management and marketing for brands such as Coca-Cola Classic and Sprite. Carl holds a Masters in Brand Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing from The University of Georgia. |  | Dave Henderson - Chief Financial Officer
Before joining the FRS team, Dave Henderson was with Genentech, Inc. where he led finance for the $10 billion dollar Commercial organization and the G&A functions. In his five-year tenure at Genentech, he successfully supported the launch of six brands over a three-year period, and saw sales grow 400%. He was an officer (Controller) of Genentech USA, and also the CFO of two non-profit foundations focused on health science education and research in the Greater Bay Area. Prior to Genentech, Dave spent two years at Commerce One as Vice President of Finance and several years at Oracle in finance and general management roles. He was President at Hotpaper.com and CFO at TNC Group, both early stage, venture-backed companies, and began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley in M&A before moving into venture capital. Dave received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his MBA from Kellogg. |  | Todd Gibson - General Manager of Field Sales
Todd Gibson is a seasoned beverage industry sales executive with 15 years experience launching and developing top brands such as Hansen's, SoBe and FUZE. Most recently, Todd served as Central Region Vice President, Still Portfolio, for Coca-Cola North America, managing a brand portfolio that included FUZE, NOS, Vitamin Water and Powerade. Prior to Coca-Cola, Todd was an early-stage sales executive at three highly successful beverage companies. At FUZE, he was Vice President of Bottler Sales and one of the first sales employee partners hired by the company. At SoBe, he served as Midwest Region Sales Manager and, at Hansen's, he was part of the original team that launched the first nationally distributed Energy drink (Hansen's Energy) in the US. |  | Al McCurdy - Vice President, Operations
As the Vice President of Operations, Al McCurdy brings decades of global operations experience to The FRS Company including 25 years at MillerCoors. While at MillerCoors, he led many transformational initiatives in the areas of plant management, packaging and design, safety, employee involvement and union relations. Al also drove key operations, manufacturing, procurement and inventory innovations at Natural Alternatives Inc. and Sybron Dental. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Cardinal Stritch University. He is a member of Sigma Pi Phi and serves as VP of Branding for the LA Chapter of NAAAHR. |  | Donald Antenore - Head of Product Development
Donald Antenore has many years of product development experience in the beverage industry, most recently as Vice President of Packaging Operations for Foster's Wine Estates. While there, he was responsible for internal and external bottling operations, secondary production and mobile bottling operations as well as procurement, logistics/warehousing and transportation. Don also worked at Tropicana for over seven years, holding a variety of senior product development, operational and manufacturing roles. Before his time at Tropicana, he spent five years at Kraft Foods as a plant manager. Antenore earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Biology from Illinois State University. |
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