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Speaker Bios
Scott Sandler

Owner-Operator,
Pizza Head

Scott Sandler opened Pizzeoli Wood Fired
Pizza Napolitana in 2014 with a passion
and no prior restaurant experience. In 2016,
Pizzeoli was ranked in the 25 best restaurant in St. Louis by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2017 Scott sold
Pizzeoli and opened his second place, Pizza Head, a New York-style
pizza-by-the-slice concept with live punk rock music shows. Scott's
pizzerias have the unique distinction of being all vegetarian.

Tom Santos

Account Executive,
General Mills
Tom has nearly 40 years of the baking
experience beginning in 1980 with owning
and operating a full line retail bakery for
18 years. He just celebrated his 20 year
anniversary with General Mills and works as Account Executive with
National Flour Sales throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
Tom's background of product knowledge, production, operations and
training offers a solid foundation to assisting Pizza customers. Tom's
role also involves understanding the wheat market and the impact of
market direction on flour pricing.

TJ Schier

Restaurant Owner and
Consultant, Smart
Restaurant Group
In 2007 T.J. Schier founded SMART
Restaurant Group, which now operates 15
Which Wich Superior Sandwiches shops. He
tests cutting-edge hiring, guest survey and training methods in his
company and applies them as a consultant providing custom training
materials and guest-services programs. He has written several books
and developed operational training materials for Coca-Cola, Kraft,
Evian and selected leading restaurant and hotel chains.

David Scott Peters

Restaurant Business
Expert,
DavidScottPeters.com

THE expert in the restaurant industry, he uses a no-BS style to teach
and motivate restaurant owners to take control of their businesses
and finally realize their full potential. Thousands of restaurants
have used his formula to transform their businesses. To learn more
about David Scott Peters, his formula, or his online courses, visit
davidscottpeters.com.

Michael Shepherd

President,
PerfectingPizza.com
Michael Shepherd is a four-time World Pizza
Champion, president of the pizza resource
website perfectingpizza.com, and owner
of Pizza Fixation Mobile Wood-Fired Pizza.
Michael owned and operated three pizzerias in Northwest Ohio for
20 years, growing the small-town locations into a multi-million dollar
company using nontraditional marketing methods, out-of-the-box
thinking and a systemic approach to operations that consistently
earned him more than 20 percent in profits.

Jeff Smokevitch

Owner-Operator, Brown
Dog and Blue Pan
Pizzerias
Jeff "Smoke" Smokevitch co-founded
and currently operates Brown Dog Pizza,
a full-service concept in Telluride, Colo.,
serving six unique styles of pizza, including his award-winning Detroit
Square. He's also opened two locations Blue Pan Pizza in Denver and
was winner of Pizza Triathlon (baking three different styles) at the
2015 World Pizza Championships in Parma, Italy.

Brian Spangler

Owner/Operator,
Apizza Scholls
As owner-operator of Olive Mountain Baking
Co. from 2000-2005 and Apizza Scholls in
2004, Brian Spangler's reputation went far
beyond his Portland, OR, location. In 2004,
he put his dough knowledge to work on pizza, opening the highly
acclaimed Apizza Scholls serving what have been described as "New
York-meets-Connecticut" pies.

David Scott Peters is a restaurant coach,
author and speaker who teaches restaurant
operators how to use his trademark Restaurant Prosperity Formula to cut costs and increase profits. Known as

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