John B. Coles is a native New Yorker who currently resides in Smithtown, NY. He has a Bachelors of Science from Buffalo State College. John is an experienced industry veteran with over 40 years in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. He spent 22 years with Keebler Company and now over 15 years with Euro-American Brands. John has effectively managed both a DSD and distributor network and has a successful track record in people management, P/L growth, trade development, and business plan development and execution. John is a married father of three children and grandchildren. His passions are golf, fishing, and following NY sports. He also enjoys working and socializing with co-workers and industry personnel.

Ron joined Euro American Brands in 1998. Current responsibilities include headquarter calls for Cost Plus World Market, ethnic distributors in California, and 44 Western regional DeCA stores. Ron enjoys yoga, hiking, reading, Oregon Pinot Noirs, and keeping the spices alphabetically organized in the kitchen pantry. “I think that I speak for all of my colleagues when I say that Euro American Brands would rank # 1 as one of the best employers in the USA.”

Born and still living in Newport, RI, Mike is has been married for 20+ years to his wife, Leslie. Mike and Leslie have two sons; Michael, who graduated from URI with a degree in Economics, and Zachary, who graduated from UNH with a degree in environmental engineering. Experience: 16 years at Millbrook/UNFI primarily as an Account Manager selling specialty and natural foods to large NE retailers. 6 years in the broker business managing key north east accounts. 25+ Years of building brands and increasing points of distribution. When he is not building brands at EAB, Mike can be found walking his dogs and rooting for all the New England sports teams, go Pats!

Born in Managua, Nicaragua left during the Nicaraguan revolutionary war of 1978 Lived in the L.A. area after leaving Nicaragua and currently resides in Lawndale, CA which is the neighbor city to Manhattan Beach/El Segundo and of course LAX First 6 years of professional career spent in the hardware/hand tools industry as Product/ Brand Manager. Products sold to Home Depot, LOWE’S, Ace/True Value, Sears, etc Entered the food industry with a regional manufacturer of Hispanic food company specializing in dairy products such as cheese and creams 14 years of sales experience with food/drug/mass/club retailers in the USA/Mexico and Canada Sales experience in the private label sector of food/grocery retailers Has sold cookies, chocolate covered macadamia nuts, and snacks Played D1 college baseball at LMU for a couple of years, gave up half scholarship due to not being able to hit 95mph fastballs! Bachelor’s in International Business and Marketing from LMU; MBA from Keller Graduate School of Long Beach Enjoys golfing/fishing/mountain biking and working out Bilingual fluent in Spanish reading/writing/reading

Eric has a Bachelors of Science degree in Food/Business Management and has a lengthy career in Consumer Package Goods sales.  He started out working as a sales representative for specialty distributors Haddon House and Millbrook. He then worked for World Finer Foods as the Northeast Regional Sales Manager for over 7 years.  Eric followed that assignment and was the National Sales Manger for Kelsen Inc. selling butter cookies nationally until the company was purchased by Ferrara Pan Candy Company. Eric is happily married to his wife Kristin who is a High School middle School teacher for over 17 years.  He is the proud father of 2 daughters.  Kylie is a dedicated figure skater and lacrosse player.  Kenzie currently attends nursery school and is starting kindergarten and soccer in the fall.