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Bobbie Klinkhardt
Vice President |
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Bobbie Klinkhardt is also part of the family as one of the second generation siblings that work at the company. She started in the plant and eventually moved into the accounting department, then was tapped as the VP as her responsibilities grew exponentially.
Her favorite things to do away from work is mostly centered around having her green thumb outside during the summer, and in colder weather she turns to crafty things. Like most young grandmothers, she also spends a lot of time with her grandkids. |
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Scott Roever
Comptroller |
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Scott lucked out and got his job at MAR because he is part of the "family". His background in media communications is not often used in his Comptroller position, and his musical talents add nothing to his work with the Digital Imaging department, but at least his IQ is higher than anyone who ran for President in 2008.
Besides his family, his love is Stratocasters and old Fender tube amps. His long term plan is to retire and stalk a rock band (Wilco is a the top of the list now), or start a cover band named Wilcopy. And oh yes, he does know a thing or two about mailing regulations and databases, in addition to the usual Comptrolling things like finances and taxes. |
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Anita Redohl
Accounting Manager |
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Anita is also part of the family ownership group at MAR; she has task of keeping all of the Accounts Receivables numbers in order (yes, she is a bean counter). Like her co-working siblings, Anita has been involved in the business from a very early age. She briefly toyed with going into government work, but her brief history of questionable behavior while living in California left her with too many skeletons in her closet.
Almost all of Anita's non-work endeavors center around her five daughters or her fanatic interest in rhombic dodecahedrons & other Catalan solids. OK, one of those is not entirely true...just pick whichever one you choose to believe. |
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Brian Coats
Sales/Marketting |
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Brian always knew what he wanted to do when he grew up; he wanted to work with his grandfather in the printing business. Brian grew up around printing and has spent many years in various positions throughout the company (which means either his uncle could not find a position commiserate with Brian's skill level or they had trouble containing the damage Brian did wherever he worked).
Brian currently performs sales and marketing duties for MAR - which really means he is sort of a glorified Ambassador of Goodwill (a role he relishes). He was the 2008 Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA) Member of the Year Award recipient for his contributions to the organization. He currently is a Regional Director for the PSDA. Brian's interests range from the 17th Century work of Bernini to the 20th Century work of Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe to the classical stylings of movies like Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack or The Bad News Bears (the original!). |
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Tim Neninnger
Sales |
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Tim Nenninger was the player to be named later in a 3 way trade with eight other printing companies. So maybe our math is off, but Tim came to MAR some years ago and has fit right in with the family atmosphere. Many people would agree that Tim is quite possibly the most un-salesmen like sales person in the business. His early days running a press formed his extensive knowledge of printing that he uses each workday, and his wife and twin kids have helped him forget it when he gets home.
Tim is an avid hunter and an avid golfer - and avid spelled backwards is diva, which he is not, but might want to be. He also wears moccasins. |
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John Roudebush
Sales |
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John Roudebush is a veteran press operator and print sales guy from way, way back ... actually, not. He does have many years of print sales work under his belt, but in a previous life John was Naval Special Forces. Not much is really known about his hush-hush undercover life of yesteryear, but judging by his infatuation with guns and hunting, you have to figure his past experiences had something to do with that. He also is proud owner of a 1962 Fender Stratocaster, though no one has ever actually seen him play it. (His wife tells us he only knows 2 songs, and he's not really good at that).
He can be seen traveling the Midwest in a white miniature hearse with the MAR logo on the side - though he swears its a Chevy HHR. |
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Dave Gunn
Customer Service |
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Dave Gunn began his career at MAR on a collator, and moved into Customer Service fairly quickly. One of his many responsibilities is to act as Gatekeeper, and as a result there is not too much that he does not know about MAR's capabilities. In addition to, Dave services several accounts and assists in material purchasing.
Dave also enjoys hunting and has taught himself how to play guitar, piano, banjo, bugle and bagpipes - yes, he really can play the bagpipes. |
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Allen May
Customer Service & Repository of Useless Information |
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Allen may know more useless information than any other person on the face of the earth. OK, that is a stretch but he certainly is the guy to have on your team at a trivia contest. Allen's other favorite pastimes include Cardinals baseball, following U of I basketball and playing golf with his son (who apparently is getting within striking distance of taking the 'old man' down).
Allen enjoys 60's and 70's rock music and is a firm believer that no good music was written after 1982. He also believes that to be considered a quality start, a pitcher should go at least 7 innings and give up a maximum of 2 earned runs. |
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Jean Schwarze
Customer Service |
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Jean Schwarze started with MAR in 1990 in the front office, and has held many positions until moving into Customer Service over ten years ago. She enjoys working at MAR with all of her former class mates and neighbors.
When she leaves at the end of the day she goes home to a whole house full of people and pets. Some day she hopes to have the house to herself, at least for a little while. She enjoys antiquing, shopping and gardening on the weekends. Her favorite band is definitely Bundy's Fountain Creek Band and she hopes to be part of the band some day. |
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Angie Corey
CSR & veggie canner |
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Angie likes to fish and, yes, she does clean her own fish but prefers to listen to Barry Manilow while doing so. You can tell Angie is from the St Louis area by her penchant for Natural Light Beer, Sammy Hagar and the St. Louis Blues. Angie's garden is, even by her own admission, way too big; but everyone in the office loves the fresh vegtable extras she regularly brings in to share.
She has recently added camping and old house remodeling (grudgingly) to her list of activities. Don't get her started on floor leveling and attic insulation. |
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Mark Bundy
CSR and VP-Etiquette, Manners & Grooming |
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Mark plays bass guitar for the Fountain Creek Band with Scott Roever. Scott boasts of Mark's skills on the bass by saying, "He is a rock on the bass." Mark is actually just as solid in his duty as a CSR - the perfect blend of empathy and apathy (OK, not apathy, we just love to give Mark a hard time).
Mark is an avid golfer, Illini basketball and Cards baseball fan. By avid golfer, he really means 'Don't quit your day job.' Sage advice from a prophetic, but morally bankrupt hacker. And by the way, little did you know that the VP in his title stands for Very Poor. |
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Barb White
CSR |
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Barb White started in 1986 as a receptionist, and has done just about every job in the front office with the exception of cleaning the bathrooms. The multi-talented Barb is the one most responsible for putting her "thumb on the scale" as she currently does all of our invoicing.
One thing most people do not know about Barb is that she has an excellent singing voice and has even sang at Carnagie Hall a couple of years ago. She enjoys being harassed by her four grandsons and looks forward to the day when she can retire and get away from some of the strange people she works with. |
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Rick Priest
CSR |
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Rick got started in printing at an early age. His high school had a huge print shop that printed their own yearbooks. Rick is unique in that he actually went to college to study printing. He completed a five year Co-operative (six months in school, six months interning in the printing industry) Graphic Arts Management Degree at Ball State University. Since graduating, he has worked over thirty years solely in the business forms field.
His Indiana hoosier background allows him exclusive access to racetracks everywhere, and when he isn't watching Tony Stewart, he is watching his favorite musicians, like Dereck Trucks and Robin Trower. During the day he eats and drinks printing, but at night he becomes a semi-professional photographer of musical acts across the midwest. |
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Bob Finkenkeller
CSR |
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In a previous working life Bob worked many years for various print distributor organizations, so his experience is a real plus for his fellow employees and customers.
Bob, in a nutshell (talk about big things in little packages), can be summed as follows... Bob is scholarly to the point of savantism. For example, although fluent in Vedic Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and Pig Latin, he has trouble tying his own shoes and refuses to take a shower less than 15 minutes long. He is quick to point out that Bob spelled backwards is boB and argues that the time it takes the sun to transit from horizon to horizon is incorrectly referred to as daytime. In his free time Bob works on his thesis, 'The History of Plucked Idiophones', and is an amateur glitter-art, air-brush painter of pink ponies, carousels and thermo-nuclear explosions. Other interests, while not as whimsical, include photography and genealogy (he is still trying to figure out just exactly it is where he came from). |
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Barbie Esker
aka: Big Red, AS-NGFB CSR |
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Barbie is the cheery voice at the other end of the line when you call MAR Graphics - you guessed it, she is the receptionist (we still have a live, friendly voice answer the phone). When Barbie is not spreading good cheer at MAR she can be found tending to her cabin rental and fishing business, Trappers Fall. She is even known to sling a drink or two tending bar at a local tavern.
After her unfortunate 'accident' involving a chainsaw and a person that shall remain nameless, you would think all of that work makes it difficult for the parole officer to keep tabs on her. Fortunately Barbie was able to negotiate a deal to have an additional ankle monitor base installed at the bar. A word of advice, don't get suckered into a card game with her; her father taught her how to play cards pretty darn well. |
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Rich Voight
MIS |
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Rich Voight has truly been everywhere, man. As MAR's lead IT person, he has been with MAR all the way from the first days of Tandy units with 8" floppy disks to wireless LANs and XML. Before all that, he had his start with punch cards in the 1960's, then somehow ended up in the grocery business.
He is an accomplished musician as well, and if you drive anywhere in the Midwest with Rich in the car, he can tell you a story about almost every town you go past in which he either played music, worked in, or knew a girl in - though no one believes the girl stories anymore. |
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Karma the Chameleon
Company Logo |
| After a horific accident involving a zamboni and a bovine while working as a stunt double for a certain insurance selling reptile, Karma decided to take life slower and moved to rural Illinois. After finding that Midwestern winters were no place for a color changing chameleon, he answered a casting call for company mascots. While it was a difficult decision between Karma and Terry the Turkey, we settled on Karma mainly due to the fact that it was nearing Thanksgiving, almost lunchtime, and Terry had mysteriously disapeered. |