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ANGELA ROBUCK
Beverage Specialist, PrairieFire
Coffee Roasters
As a beverage specialist at PrairieFire
Coffee Roasters, Angela Robuck has
learned the lingo, functionality and
even ability to install some of the coffee
equipment herself in new accounts. She
is eager to learn, motivated and driven to
be the best at what she sets out to accomplish each day.
Among her account team, she is the only female out of
seven members, and Robuck outsold all of them in 2021
and was named the company's beverage specialist of
the year. She provides excellent communication to her
customers and has built long-lasting friendships due to
her professionalism and hard work.
Angela
Robuck
PEGGY RUSSELL
Vice President, Human Resources,
Five Star Food Service
Peggy Russell serves on the senior
leadership team for Five Star Food
Service, Canteen's largest franchise.
Since 2007, Russell has successfully
guided the company through two
recessions and a pandemic. Today,
her team supports a growing base of just over 2,000
employees located in eight states. Russell is a leader
and advocate for diversity, respect and fairness in the
workplace. She is highly committed to her practice, holding
an MBA and maintaining multiple certifications through
SHRM and HRCI. Russell currently serves as a founding
board member of Five Star's nonprofit 501c3 foundation
Feeding the Future, which raises money to donate to local
food banks creating meals for kids facing hunger.
Peggy
Russell
SANDY
SCHOENTHALER
Micro Market Specialist
Empire Vending, LLC
Sandy Schoenthaler has been
referred to by many as a hurricane in
this industry and with good reason.
She first joined Empire Vending as a
consultant in 2019 when it landed its first micro market
and quickly realized that the energy and atmosphere
at the company matched her incredible ambition, and
she decided to join full-time. Since then, Schoenthaler
has helped lead the company to become a major hitter.
She continually puts her best foot forward. With her
dedication to this industry, she is influential to many, but
most importantly, to strong women everywhere like her.
Sandy
Schoenthaler
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SARAH SHELTON
Vice President of Customer
Operations, Cantaloupe Inc.
Sarah Shelton has been in the
convenience services industry for 12
years, working closely with customers
and operations teams to ensure they
are taken care of - from onboarding to
support. As technology and the industry have evolved,
Shelton has continued to strive at making sure that
the company is optimizing every step of the customer
journey along the way. She started with Cantaloupe,
formerly USA Technologies, in 2011 where she first
worked on the marketing team, and throughout the
years, she has worked across all customer-facing
business units, including revenue, support and customer
success. Shelton has proven that she serves not only
as an inspiration but also as an advocate to other
female leaders within Cantaloupe. In her role today,
while she may be behind the scenes ensuring processes
are streamlined, the sales team is enabled to sell, and
customers are getting a simple and easy experience
every time, she continues to make a tremendous
impact. Shelton is truly an inspiration to the employees
at Cantaloupe and deserves the recognition as an
influential woman in convenience services.
Sarah
Shelton
VATSANA
SOUVANNAVONG
Founder/CEO/Chef, Koala Kolache
Vatsana Souvannavong is a visionary
who has leveraged leading-edge
vending technology in a new way.
She customized a Bake Xpress
robotic hot food vending kiosk to
function as a bakery ATM, allowing her to meet her
customers' requests for longer open hours and more
locations. Koala Kolache is able to open new locations
throughout Texas without the capital required to build
out a new storefront or find employees. Souvannavong
has highlighted the possibilities of the latest vending
technology and elevated the perception of vending
foods to unprecedented levels. She taught herself how
to make award-winning pastries and promoted them
by donating her products to local schools and events,
a commitment to community that she continues to
emphasize throughout her business. She also served a
need in other sites like local hospitals where round-theclock
foodservice is needed but not possible. Also, the
new vector of her business is sustainable even during the
unpredictability presented by COVID or other challenges.
Vatsana
Souvannavong
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