- HIDDEN TALENT: Cosmetology
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Let it Go (with her Grandkids)
- TELL ME A JOKE: Why did the tomato blush? It saw salad dressing.
- HOBBIES: Fitness, Reading, Singing, Photoraphy
Tammy Carpenter
Accounts & Processing
The white gloves that monitors the team and process for your Online Wholesale and Direct To Consumer orders.
- SPORTS TEAM: Detroit Lions
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Australia
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Presidential Service Award
- FAVORITE BOOK: The Last of the Mohicans
- NICKNAME: T
Tristan Varney
Inside Sales Lead, Specialty Accounts
Needing a personalized service for you and your customers? We give you Tristan, our field sport athlete and product guru.
- FAVORITE FOOD: Sushi
- FAVORITE OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Yoga & Hiking
- FAVORITE PODCAST: Anything True Crime
- FAVORITE DESSERT: Raspberry Sherbert
- FAVORITE AUTHOR: Stephen King & Paulo Coelho
Cameron Greene
Customer Experience Lead
Cameron is responsible for improving how customers experience Hickory Brands from their first interaction through future business opportunities.
- FAVORITE QUOTE: "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchhill.
- HOBBIES: hiking, swimming, reading, dancing.
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Canned Heat by Jamiroquai
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL: GREECE
Chloe Wilson
Executive Assistant HQ
Eager to use her experience to support the HBi team, providing essential administrative assistance while acting as an communication ambassador for our brands.
- Travel Bucket List: Japan
- Current Obsession: My son
- Favorite Ice Cream: Bourbon Pecan
- Spirit Animal: Panda
- Current Favorite Song: Eye of the Untold Her - Lindsey Sterling
Derrick Yocum
Program Manager
Our lead for developing the internal management, reporting, and structure required to support exclusive retail programs.
- FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: Counter Strike 2
- FAVORITE PODCAST: Lemonade Stand
- FAVORITE SWITCH: Holy Pandas
Gustavo Franco
Platform & UX Engineer
Gustavo is responsible for improving the digital platforms, technical systems, user experience, and integrations that support Hickory Brands' customers and internal teams.
- SPORTS TEAM: Saints
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Fishing
- PIRATE NAME: Cut Throat
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Thailand
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Her son
Esther Lor
Plant Foreman
Utilizing years of production expertise to keep lead times low, communication high, our employees safe, and our customers happy.
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Emotions by Mariah Carey
- ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Rocky Road
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Hiking
- MOVIE: Bridget Jones' Diary
- SUPERHERO: Batman
Grace Roseman
Supply Chain & Purchasing Lead
Keeping us stocked up to fulfill your orders faster.
- ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Strawberry
- TELL ME A JOKE: How do trees get online? They just log on.
- PIRATE NAME: Captain Sassy Pants
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Keeping 3 children alive until adulthood.
Rhonda Tankersley
Controller
The Analytical brain of the accounting department.
- HOBBIES: Reading, Quilting
- FAVORITE MOVIE: The Shawshank Redemption
- TELL ME A JOKE: Some people eat snails… they must not eat fast food.
- SPORTS TEAM: Duke
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Bunny
Anna Holloway
Accounts Payable
The bubbliest member of our team by far who's always ready to help.
- QUOTE: Work smarter, not harder.
- TELL ME A JOKE: Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the opossum it could be done.
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Cycling
- MOVIE: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- HIDDEN TALEN: Woodworking
Cliff Coffey
Distribution Center & Weaving Manager
A man of many hats, handling our yarn purchasing, recycling, and logistics for Hickory Brands, and of course our weaving department. Cliff brings his lifelong knowledge of the textile industry to our ever expanding team.
- SPORTS TEAM: Carolina Panthers
- FOOD: Salmon
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: France
- MOVIE: The Notebook
- HOLIDAY: Christmas
Diane Eaton
Packaging Department Supervisor
Boss Lady and our honorary first Employee of the Year for her outstanding leadership and utmost dedication to her team and the company.
- HOBBIES: Working with animals
- BOOK: Call of the Wild
- NICKNAME: BiggDawg
- QUOTE: A jack of all trades is a master of none but often times better than a master of one.
BJ Ward
Braiding Department Supervisor
Our resident expert of adorable Pitbulls (and braiding, of course). BJ manages the largest department in our Plant #3 facility with great care and long time expertise.
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Gardening, Landscaping, & Hiking to Waterfalls
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars
- QUOTE: "What we do in life, echoes in eternity"- Maximus, Gladiator
- FOOD: French Fries & Ice Cream
Anita Picklesimer
Shipping Manager
Anita ensures all of your product is shipped out on time and handled with care.
- Damir is constantly innovating new machinery for our operations. He hopes you can plan a tour with us, so he can show what he is working on now and thinking of for the future!
Damir Softic
Facilities Maintenance Manager & Machinist
The man MacGyver strived to be. He keeps our original machinery moving and builds new ones to produce our future innovations.
- BA in Business Administration and MBA in Business Administration and Management from Lenoir Rhyne University.
- 2 Time Conference Champion for LR Bears Football Team
- Chi Alpha Sigma National Athlete Honors Society
Ricky Hardson
HBi - American Legacy® Outdoor Sales & Key Accounts
Our brand and product representation for the American Legacy® Brand.
- Graduated with he BBA in Management Information Systems from Lenoir-Rhyne University.
- Starting Linebacker for LR Bears Football Team.
Preston Joseph
HBi - 10 Seconds® Team Sales & Key Accounts
Our Man for building opportunities with consumer retail and team products.
- Working on her BA in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication and her BA in Sports Administration.
Emily Snyder
Social Media and Content Creation, Janie® Brand
Our hip and in-the-know intern from Chapel Hill.
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude with BA in Marketing & Business Management and MBA in Global Business from Lenoir Rhyne University.
- Captain of the LR Men's Soccer Team
- Chi Alpha Sigma National Athlete Honors Society
Victor Cascon
European Businesses Development & Team Sales
Key contact and outreach for our growing international business.
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Graduating High School with Associates degree at 17.
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Bora Bora
- SONG TO DANCE TO: Cotton Eye Joe
- MOVIE: Napoleon Dynamite
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Dragonfly
Brooke Lawrence
Social Media & Marketing
Bringing a fresh perspective and marketing know-how to social media content.
- HIDDEN TALENT: Correctly guessing what side a quarter will land on (99 out of 100 times)
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Alpaca
- ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Moose Tracks
- "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
Dulcemaria Coronado-Sanchez
Social Media & Marketing
Sparking interest in our collective brands through social media content with fun and flair.
- QUOTE: The bad news is time flies. The good news is time flies.
- FOOD: Dumplings
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Snowboarding
- SONG TO DANCE TO: September by Eath, Wind & Fire
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Graduation college with honors.
Gabe Morgan
Industrial Design
Pioneering innovative products through creative exploration within industrial design.
- QUOTE: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take – Wayne Gretzky – Michael Scott
- HIDDEN TALENT: Playing Piano
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Graduating from college magna cum laude while having two part-time jobs.
- PIRATE NAME: The Hilarious Captain Val
Valeria Calcamo Alonzo
Marketing & Apparel Design
Bringing our collective brands to life through social media content with her photography skills, as well as forecasting trends and crafting new designs for our apparel lines.
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: NCAA National Champion
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Turtle
- QUOTE: You cannot control the wind, but you can direct the sail.
- PIRATE NAME: Danish Viking
- HIDDEN TALENT: Can crush a Military Pentathalon
Nanette Nikolajsen
Business Development, 2WiN®
Our in-house NCAA National Triathlete Champion is bringing her performance apparel knowledge to help launch 2WiN to the finish line.
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Macarena
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Cancun, Mallorca, & Greece
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Soccer
- FOOD: Sushi
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: SAC Champion
Juan Basabe
Marketing & Collaboratives
Digging into trends and our company heritage with the HBi Marketing Team to spread brand awareness through social media campaigns and our 100 Days to 100 Years Countdown.
- FAVORITE BOOK: Little Women
- NICKNAME: Tiny
- FAVORITE SUPER HERO: Batman
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Making it to 21 y.o. with no car wrecks
- FAVORITE FOOD: Apple Pie
Anne-Marie Frye
Corporate Communications & Public Relations
Bringing third-generation textile knowledge to communicate our new products to new markets.
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Kayaking & Hiking
- HOBBIES: Photography, Ceramics, and Woodworking
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Croatia and Fiji
- QUOTE: When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change.- Aang, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Jason Liu
Industrial Design & OEM Partnerships
- FAVORITE SUPER HERO: The Flash
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Iceland
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Anything by Michael Jackson
- ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Orange Sherbert
- FAVORITE HOLIDAY: Thanksgiving
Nick Henriques
Track & Field Marketing and Sales
Combining athletic experience and marketing know-how to connect with track-and-field community and beyond.
- GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: SAC first team double
- OUTDOOR ACTIVITY: Tennis, Soccer, Hiking
- FAVORITE SONG TO DANCE TO: Kan inte gå - bolaget
- TELL ME A JOKE: What is fast, loud, and crunchy? A rocket chip.
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Eagle
Alicia Wahlberg
Court & Club International Marketing and Sales
- FAVORITE MOVIE: The Notebook
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Butterfly
- FAVORITE QUOTE: "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."- Robert Frost
- FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM: Boston Celtics
Emily Buie
Graphic Design
As a designer, Emily strives to make positive connections between the consumer and the product they are buying. By staying up to date with current design trends, she catches people’s attention and makes them more interested in what the product has to offer. Aka, Emily's on it.
- BUCKET LIST TRAVEL LOCATION: Greece
- FAVORITE SUPER HERO: Iron Man
- FAVORITE ICE CREAM: Cookie Dough
- FAVORITE MOVIE: Saving Private Ryan
Jackson Roberts
Marketing & Videography
Jackson is known around here for his basketball videography, love of running and hiking, as well as being a Tar Heels super fan.
- HIDDEN TALENT: Black Belt in Karate… in 4th grade!
- SPIRIT ANIMAL: Alligator
- FAVORITE QUOTE: "I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done"- David Goggins
- FAVORITE FOOD: Sushi
Dan O'Dell
Business Development & Apprentice
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