Meet our people.
If you're an Emma customer, it's very likely you've gotten to know one or more of the people pictured here. Perhaps you've met several of them. Perhaps you know one person quite well but have only spoken briefly with two others. Here's your chance to put a face with a name, or two names with two faces, and so on and so forth.
Megan Feltes
Megan is part of our small business sales team, having joined us after stints at Lucky Brand Jeans and The Band Hall, a supplier of band and color guard uniforms. Remember that one time at band camp? It’s possible they were wearing uniforms designed by Megan, who herself marched as a proud member of the Blue Knights (in Colorado, her home state) and Chimeras (Nashville) and continues to teach dance and judge color guard competitions. In Megan’s words, “I may be a nerd, but I have unlimited access to sequins and rhinestones, so I’m a sparkly nerd.” Our sparkly nerdish friend is told she looks like Lindsay Lohan, but thankfully she has a knack for avoiding jail time more like, say, a Julianne Moore. A graduate of MTSU, Megan majored in political science with a pre-law cognate, which, we’re fairly certain, is some sort of weaver’s loom.
Kelli Frosch
Do you know anybody who owns Christmas tree lights for their car? Yes, you do, and you're reading about her now. Kelli is a part of our community relations team, where she regularly delights customers not only with her knack for troubleshooting and friendly service but also with videos of her dance moves which she, masquerading as a mysterious "Leslie," will never regret having posted here. Kelli's kinesthetic talents also extend to the kickball arena, where a portion of her uniform, we're told, involves a tutu. Prior to Emma, Kelli worked at artist management shops around Nashville, supporting the marketing efforts of up-and-comers like Kanye West, Tim McGraw and Alicia Keys. Kelli is the only notary public in the Emma shop and, we're assuming, the only tutu-wearing notary public in the world. Kelli holds a degree in advertising from the University of Southern Indiana, where she graduated summa cum laude. Summa cum laude is Latin for with a tutu.
Grey Garner
Grey is our product manager, helping us craft the very best features for Emma's service. Speaking of crafting things, Grey is known for crafting beer in his own home, which means he's also known for crafting beer-related phrases like "raisin-fig nose" and "sweet malty breadiness" and "it's okay to drink in your basement." Is Grey also known for crafting actual crafts? He's asked us not to comment on the matter, which leads us to believe that his home-brewed beer bottles may come adorned with crocheted doilies and little yarn pom-pon thingies. Before joining Emma, Grey helped manage a post-production studio that handled a variety of editing projects for music-industry-clients. He's been an engineer, a producer, a recording artist and a secret maker of crafts. Oops. Sorry, Grey. Secret's out, buddy.
Matt George
Matt is a member of Emma’s software development team. An avid whitewater kayaker, Matt also enjoys snowboarding, climbing and cycling and rides a motorcycle to work most days. Matt’s bike of choice is a Harley Davidson Nightster that looks like this and, according to sources that may or may not be Matt, is much more powerful and manly than the Buell Matt’s colleague Kendall rides. Tickets to the Nightster-Buell Motorcycle Ride-Off and/or Pinky Wrestling Showdown will go on sale shortly. At the ripe old age of 29, Matt has already counted 20 different residences home, in the states of Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina, where he attended Furman University and majored in computer science. Prior to joining Emma, Matt was a tech samurai (nice title) for a company called Noogieware (nice company name) and, before that, a software developer with Manheim Auctions in Nashville.
Jonathan Gesinger
If you're curious about kolaches, you've come to the right bio. This delicious Czechoslovakian pastry features a small bread roll inside which one may find a range of fillings, from traditional fruit to savory meats and cheeses. But if you're curious about kolaches inasmuch as they pertain to this bio you're still reading for some reason, we'll break it down: kolaches are tasty, Jonathan loves kolaches, and it's really fun to talk about kolaches. So then, let's continue with some non-kolache-related things you should know about Jonathan. He heads up our business development efforts in Austin, our newest satellite office, which is located a short drive from West, Texas, famous for its kolache-themed rest stop Czech Stop. Also, he founded Twin Engine Creative, a brand and marketing agency where he served for seven years as founder, managing partner and that dude who keeps talking about kolaches. Before that, he helped lead marketing efforts for the Seattle Mariners, where he introduced Ken Griffey, Jr. to a little-known but much loved international pastry. And that pastry was, of course, the croissant.
Delaney Gray
Delaney is part of our billing team. You know, numbers and such. Speaking of numbers, Delaney estimates that roughly 25% of her home’s square footage is devoted to cookbooks, cooking magazines and kitchen supplies, including a stand mixer she’s christened Julia Child, the same name she says she would give a boat were she ever to own watercraft. When she isn’t baking or cooking or naming things after Julia Child, Delaney enjoys heckling the opponents at Nashville Sounds minor league baseball games (her inside tip: focus your barbs on the base coaches, not the players), attending book club, adding to her Ultimate List of Get To Know You Questions (there are currently 175), and spending time with her three cats and three dogs, none of which, we are assured, are named Julia Child.
Jim Hitch
Jim stymied chili experts everywhere by uniting the meat-laden, cheesy, gut-bombing tradition of a chili cook-off with something as ridiculous as -- wait for it -- celery. This auspicious moment occurred during Emma's own chili cook-off, where Jim's Buffalo Chicken Chili recipe handily earned him the title of reigning chili champion. Jim's also known around these parts as our director of community, leading our efforts to build a customer community that's loyal, happy and immensely fond of celery. Jim's just really committed to celery, people. Before joining us, Jim served as a partner in an insurance and financial services firm, having earned his degree in finance from Belmont University, and he continues to participate in his family's business, Wampler's Farm Sausage, whose delicious new Celery Sausage will no doubt be available soon at a grocery store near you.
Nathan Hoeft
Nathan is our data analyst, designing systems that help us make the most of all kinds of information. As such, one might suspect he would be keen to weigh in on the age-old question: Are you supposed to say dayta or dahta or number thingies? Nathan, however, remains circumspect on the matter, likely because he's busy applying himself to one of his roughly eleventy billion hobbies, including painting, gardening, soapmaking, beer brewing, hat wearing, African drum playing and motorcycle driving. Before Emma, Nathan spent time at Echo and Dell and graduated from Vanderbilt University, where he received a grant to study the migration of culture through interlacustrine east Africa, which we suspect has something to do with number thingies.
Mallory Hull
Mallory is part of our agency relations team, a team she joined after an initial stint as an Emma intern extraordinaire post-college. That college was East Tennessee State University, FYI, and Mallory was the 2007-08 Advertising Student of the Year, also FYI, and she just so happened to graduate magna cum laude, triple FYI. There are just things you need to know about Mallory’s college career and a series of FYIs seemed appropriate. When she’s not taking care of Emma agencies, Mallory enjoys tacos, and outdoor activities like kickball, being careful to avoid kickballery for thirty minutes - scratch that, two days - after eating food from a taco, or really any, truck. She also enjoys running, and noise-making, with a particular interest in making eerily accurate siren noises. The sirens are so realistic you might believe a fire truck is actually heading your way. Or maybe something near you is on fire - best not to take any chances blowing it off as Mallory up to her old tricks, friend.
Kevin Jennings
Kevin has what some people, especially people who live in France, like to call joie de vivre. It means waffles on the side, which leads nicely into the fact that Kevin loves eating breakfast, including but not limited to fast food with fast food prizes, including but not limited to crowns featuring characters from Twilight. But what potential customers who talk to Kevin on the phone notice about him is his business savvy. You might say that Kevin has more business expertise than you can shake a waffle at. One day, he might be running around the office wearing his Twilight crown shouting "Team Edward!" and the next day he'll be delivering a speech to business school students who have no idea about the waffles or the crown but are awfully impressed anyway. The point is, Kevin knows what he's talking about, and he's likely to inspire you ... or at least bring a sense of joie de vivre, which evidently doesn't have anything to do with waffles, unless you pronounce it in a certain way.