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Speaker Bios
Sandy Korem

CEO and Founder,
TheCateringCoach.com
Sandy Korem is the CEO and founder
of The Festive Kitchen, a one-of-a kind
catering company based in Dallas, Texas.
No other catering company in America
has established such a diverse and profitable "take-home catering"
division. In 2008, Sandy was awarded the White House Food Service
Medallion for outstanding service to President George W. Bush. Her
company, The Catering Coach, helps restaurateurs maximize their
off-site catering profit potential. Sandy uses her 25 years of catering
experience to teach independent restaurant owners and caterers how
to NOT give away all of their catering profits. Her teaching focuses on
increasing sales and profits with little or no investment and maximizing earning potential by adding multiple catering revenue streams to
their existing business. To learn more, visit www.TheCateringCoach.
com.

Tom Lehmann

Pizza Dough Specialist,
The Dough Doctor
Consulting
Tom Lehmann is a Pizza Expo fixture and
one of our most respected and popular
speakers. Tom has been director of bakery
assistance at the American Institute of Baking in Manhattan, Kan.,
and a renowned technical advisor and field consultant for the pizza
industry. He writes the regular "Dough Doctor" column for Pizza Today.

Sammy Mandell

Greenville Avenue
Pizza Company
Sammy Mandell, opened Greenville Avenue
Pizza Company (GAPCo) in 2007. Since,
GAPCo has made the Hot 100 Independent
Pizzerias 4 times (#61 in 2019).
In 2018 he was awarded with Pizza Today's first ever Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Pizza Expo and returned in 2019 to give the
keynote address.

Laura Meyer

Administrator and
Instructor, The International School of Pizza
Laura has been making pizza since she
was 17 and a 3 time world champion. She
is the head chef and kitchen manager at
Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco for 7 years as well as the
Regional Corporate Chef for Tony Gemignani's Pizza Rock. Currently,
Laura is the administrator and one of the teachers at Tony Gemignani's International School of Pizza in San Francisco helping to train
seasoned and new pizza makers across the world.

Ashira Prossack

Millennial & Gen Z
Engagement Expert
Ashira Prossack is an Internationally
recognized Multi-Generational Workplace
Expert helping companies manage, engage,
attract, and retain Millennial & Gen Z talent
and overcome generational differences. Based on over a decade of
experience and seven years of research, Ashira offers solutions that
help companies prepare for the future of work and talent. Her background includes 13 years in Management and HR, with 5 years spent
in Retail focusing on Talent Development and Employee Engagement.

Gwen Page

President/Co-Founder
Fong's Pizza
Growing up in the hospitality industry
has given Gwen a love of connecting with
people through food and drink with a focus
on kindness. She was inspired to follow
her dream of opening a pizza place while earning her HRIM degree
at Iowa State University and working at Great Plains Sauce & Dough
Company. Fast forward to 2008, when the location of the oldest
Chinese restaurant in the United States became available; and the
concept for Fong's Pizza was born. Fong's is now operating with four
locations in Iowa and a goal to expand outside the state in the near
future.

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