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Dwayne Rockenstyre
July 26, 2004 was an important day at Celtic Marketing with Dwayne Rockenstyre joining the team.  Dwayne is Director of Sales for Celtic Marketing.  He was formerly with Specialty Partners in Albany for seven years and he worked 16 years with Tree of Life, Gourmet Award Foods and A. Greenhouse.




Edward Ounjian
Edward Ounjian joined Celtic Marketing as Director of Brand Management in June 2008 and has over 25 years of experience in the specialty and natural food industry. His experience includes purchasing at Samuel Zukerman, Director of Purchasing at I. Epstein and most recently Regional VP at Millbrook.



Bob Arena
On January 8, 2000 Bob Arena joined Celtic Marketing as an Account Executive, located in Franklin, MA.  Bob has over 25 years of experience in the grocery industry with Keebler, Millbrook Distributing and Voortman Cookies.  Bob is currently our Director of Independent Accounts.



George Bair
In 2002, George Bair joined our team in March with 20 years of Specialty Food experience working for Millbrook and Gourmet Award.  Most recently George was the account manager calling on A&P New England for Gourmet Award.  In January 2008, George was named Director of Natural for Celtic Marketing.



Joe Ippolito
In October 2005, Joe Ippolito, who has over 16 years of experience as a Dairy Manager, Category Buyer and Account Executive joined us working in the Metro New York & New Jersey Market.  Joe is Director of Grocery and has extensive experience working with Wakefern and the individual Shop Rite group members.



Mike Hagerty
On October 1, 2008 Michael Hagerty joined Celtic Marketing as Western Regional Manager.  Mike has 25 years of specialty food experience.  He worked for A. Greenhouse and Gourmet Award as an account manager for Tops and Price Chopper. He later joined Specialty Partners Brokerage Company and most recently worked for Amy’s Kitchen.
 
Patti Walters
In August 2010, Patti Walters joined Celtic Marketing as the Southern Brand Manager.  Patti has experience in the Carolina Market coupled with her industry knowledge.  She has past retail experience as Director of Marketing for Fresh Market and prior to that as Specialty Foods buyer for Anderson's in Ohio.  Most recently she was Director of Marketing and Product Development for Wizard Cauldron, Inc.



John Peace
In November 2010, John Peace joined Celtic Marketing as the Metro Brand Manager.  John has extensive experience and industry knowledge of the New York Marketplace.    
Dan McGrath
Dan McGrath joined the team in June 2008. Dan has 16 years experience as a route salesman for Price Chopper at A. Greenhouse / Gourmet Award / Tree Of Life and is a merchandiser in the Upstate New York and New England area.

Chris Mirabelli
Chris Mirabelli joined Celtic Marketing in May, 2010. Chris started his career more than 20 years ago at ShopRite. He joined Gourmet Award/TOL in 1991 and has extensive experience as merchandiser participating in resets and developing planograms for specialty and natural products.

Rose Davis
Rose Davis brings 25 years experience in the grocery business which began at ShopRite. Most recently she worked as a Category Manager Assistant and Procurement Analyst at Wakefern for TOL.She became part of  the Celtic team in April 2010. 
 
Ed Gritsavage
Ed Gritsavage joined Celtic Marketing in May 2011 and is experienced in the North Carolina Marketplace and we value Ed's merchandising expertise with store resets, new item cut-ins, store openings and store audits. 
 

Jim Kinsey
Jim Kinsey comes to us in October 2011 with 28 years of experience. Most recently he was working for KeHe Distributors supervising and conducting retail store audits, resets, building displays and securing promotional activity.  Before that Jim worked with DPI, C&G Distributors and Super Fresh Markets. 


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