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BONNIE TRUSH
Bonnie is co-founder and COO of Capital Provisions (CP), a roll-up of the vending industry in Southern
California. She has cultivated a team of 50+ individuals - some recruited and some faced with the
difficult prospect of integrating into a new team after their company was acquired by CP. Prior to CP,
Trush co-founded a VMS, Vagabond. In doing so, she helped hundreds of small businesses become
more profitable. She co-founded CP with the expectation that she could build a team that treats
teammates, partners and vendors with the same loving care and passion as she did for her customers.
Outside of work, Trush actively supports women and minorities as part of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Prior to joining the convenience services industry, she earned degrees from Brigham Young University and University of
Phoenix before gaining extensive operational experience in the healthcare management and technology fields.
LAUREL WHITNEY
Laurel Whitney is co-founder of Push
Beverages LLC, an Oklahoma-based
beverage manufacturer offering
over 30 different products within six
distinct product lines distributed in 46
states nationwide. Since its inception
in 2009, Whitney has overseen product development,
operations, finance, logistics and production aspects
of the business. Previously, she and her husband ran
the largest independent vending company in New
Jersey, sold in 2013. Drawing from that experience,
Whitney's goal is to help vending companies use Push
Beverages as a tool for maintaining strong profit
margins and a competitive edge in their market. She
takes great pride in Push Beverages' longevity within
the vending and convenience space as a disrupter
in the cold beverage category, long dominated
by only two national brands. Her work with Push
Beverages has also been recognized by ROI-NJ
who named her a Women in Business Influencer,
ACG-NJ for the Innovation and Corporate Growth
Award and included her as a Top 25 Leading Women
Entrepreneurs.
BRENDA WILLIAMS
Brenda Williams joined 365
Retail Markets in 2019 as a senior
manager of customer support with
a team of 38 people. Since then,
there has been tremendous growth
for both the company and the
support team. Williams was promoted to director of
support in 2022, overseeing most brands within the
365 family and now heading a team of 150. With a
mission to provide customers with a best-in-class
experience, Williams has taken on the challenge
of supporting a growing portfolio of solutions,
understanding that the support experience can be
a differentiating factor for customers in their choice
of whom they do business with. Williams is especially
proud of the leadership team they have built and the
team of agents in place to ensure success for 365
customers and the company. The team has improved
the customer experience by reducing response and
resolution times, improving the quality of delivery,
and offering expanded coverage hours and multiple
channels to access support anytime, anywhere.
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LYNN WINKLER
Lynn Winkler has been in the OCS industry
since the early 1980s, first as an operator,
and later in 1991, she started Holiday House
Distributing, a unique place built by two very
different individuals, who had an idea and
made it into an incredible company. Winkler's
contribution in the building of the companies is organization.
" I've learned over the years that you cannot teach someone
how to do a job if you haven't done it yourself. I've done every
job from unloading trucks to packing orders. This experience
allowed me to eliminate redundancy, explain necessity and
streamline the flow of orders through our building through
effective training. "

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