Joth Ricci - President & CEO

Hi, my name is Joth…..ok, let's get that part out of the way.  Its short for Jonathan, remove the a’s and n’s and you get Joth.  I've never met anyone or anybody that knows anyone by that name.  If you are out there let me know.  Moving on…… Some of my favorite things to do are hang out in Central Oregon with my family – Robin, Anna and Joe.  For that matter, I like hanging out with them anywhere.  After that I am an activity nut: bike rides, long runs, golf, baseball, all kinds of music, great wine and working with this team to make Jones a great company. 

Eric Chastain – Wizard of Ops

Gnarly: I enjoy tending to my Billy Idol shrine and collecting Flock of Seagulls posters. Duran Duran are pretty choice. I'm addicted to cheesy commercials (especially that one for the Clapper!) My favorite movies include "Turner & Hooch," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "Major League," and "the 'Burbs". Sometimes, I enjoy taking the Camero out for a spin to the local Chuck E Cheese. Psych!

Grody: Germs, nose-hair, and "boy-bands." Sprouts on my sandwiches? Gag me with a spoon!

Mark Clagg - Operations Manager

I could eat fried corn dogs, tater tots, fish & chips, chicken strips, mushrooms, everyday.  I’m not sure that Paula Dean is really attractive to me, she has a deep fryer built into her kitchen range,  I can’t stop thinking about that, seriously that’s pretty sweet. Other things that are cool, Woody Allen, the Frontier Room (once upon a time), lots of snow in the city, some kind of impossible challenge or deadlines, these crazy cool  people at Jones Soda, small towns – especially their diners, Magnum P.I., the feeling you get after a race, sarcasm, happy hour, Sergio Leone film, John Prines - In Spite of Ourselves.

Even though I have never had any wrangling experience, I can sometimes be heard to utter the comment “that really chaps my hide”.

Judy Schoen - Production Manager, Non Soda

They told me to write a new bio. Like I have nothing better to do. I am TRYING to make soda here. In a nutshell here I am... I like sunshine, R&B, fresh flowers, mornings, manly men, bawdy talk, interesting artwork, beer, my job, telling people I care about that they are loved, good books and yoga. I dislike cold weather, rudness, people with no stories to tell, country music, white socks with black toes, unoriginality, no time to nap, running on a treadmill, fruity drinks, attention hogs, lying and bad cooking.

Chris Milberger - Inventory Control Manager

I am part of a hard working team. We do work. We do it for the feeling we obtain & because we’re in search of something. We want to relive some great moment we had in the past. Moreover, it’s also to create some other incredible moment like the last one but more intense. As long as we reach our limits... but who knows where those are?  Our realm is when we are together against a new dare. It can be anywhere, on snowboards, at the ballpark, in water, in the air... or at the office doing work.

Frankie Barbara - Creative Director

This is Frankie Barbara. FB has been with Jones Soda since 1997 when he drove Tony Hawk and team around the entire country for 2 months straight in the old original RV. Since then he has been a part of the marketing team as the creative director, runs the west coast RV, creates and manages the athlete team, relays the overall vibe of Jones to the action sports world and is with us for the long haul. Frank lives in San Diego. Life is Good.

Mike Spear – myJones/E-commerce

Hobbies: sailing, vintage motorcycles, art, International (www.internationalarsenal.com), browsing around on Icanhazcheezburger.com, I can read books too.

Sign: Scorpio

Dislikes: meter maids, people who don't pull over for lights and sirens, 2nd Ave Clowns

Favorite Food: Salad with a light vinegarette

Favorite Movie: Bridges of Madison County

Weakness: Talk Radio: Stern, KJR Sports, Dr. Laura, bring it on.

I always sided with the insurgent, not the establishment.  I don't want to be the expert of an old idea, I want to be the creator of a new one. That's what Jones is all about! The good things in life:  traveling, soccer, meeting people smarter than you, a cold beer, all of which superseded by my lovely wife-to-be. The bad things:  parking police (which reminds me to go check on my car), people that think they're smarter than everybody, bad Seattle drivers (and by the way, although polite drivers, they're terrible), no decent public transportation, and a winter with no snow to ride on.  That's me I guess, with peppered in Seinfeld quotes that were played out year's ago but they still gold baby, GOLD!

Zac Carr – Marketing Team/Events

Hobbies- Any kind of boarding,  Tony Hawk Project8 (current rank-7), Square Dancing, Cosmic Bowling,  Video/image editing

Music- A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Mobb Deep, M.O.P, EPMD, 3-6, Cee-lo, Willie and the Wake 'n' Bakes 

Shout outs- A-Lord, Parker the Poodle, Dezzy the Bearded Dragon, all my baby's mommas and, of course, my mom

Flavor- Blue Bubblegum

Nickname- Zeke

Laura Blazyk - Distributor Relations & Logistics Manager

Leaving a smoldering trail of broken hearts and ruined fortunes across Europe, Laura comes to us from the court of Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein. She has expressed weariness of court life and a burning desire to learn how “the real people” get along without staff, limousines, fine art collections, or teams of prize-winning Arabian horses. “It will be so fun,” she has been heard to say, “Like camping!”

A legendary raconteur and philosopher, Laura has had over a dozen volumes of poems, thoughts, scholarship, political analysis, and romance novels published under various pseudonyms, the most famous being the world-renowned cookbook and science fiction legend Esmerelda Bassington-Bassington. She asks that this be kept strictly confidential, as she doesn’t want earnest, doe-eyed young men or autograph-seekers to bother her at work. Especially not the doe-eyed, curly-haired, muscular young men.

Melissa Kelley – CS: National Accounts Coordinator

I applied here after I saw Kelly Ripa nearly vomit on live television after tasting a holiday flavor. You can take that as you like. I administrate orders, programs & events for our National Accounts: Panera, Barnes & Noble, Sam’s, and Alaska/Horizon. I have some special projects up my sleeve as well.

Loves: Lucia Beatrice – aka Sweet Lou, my little family, the beach…any beach, cheese, books, traveling, naming sodas, surfing…for real and on the net, The Pre, chocolate, admitting involvement in pranks…especially those against bee-dub, photography, opposites, taters, Watch Out For the Creepy Baby email chain, morning radio, getting a good deal, the word “nuts” & having a moment to breathe at the end of the day.

Dislikes: Throat tickles when I have to be quiet, illogical conclusions, not being a dog owner, most perfumes, being cold, beets, being forgetful, sleep deprivation, and when a hair falls down my shirt.

I Just Don’t Get It: Talking during the movie, bureaucratic inefficiency, dogs carried in handbags, Battlestar Gallactica and parents who don’t watch their children in public places.

Cory Gettman - CSR Midwest/East

Cory is the Customer Service Rep for the Midwest/East. Before flirting his way into the heart and pants of Jones, he appeared on Broadway in The Secret Gelding (Drama Dust nomination), Six Decrees of Preparation, and Big Rover. Off-Broadway credits include The Destiny of Epp (Flobie Award, Drama Dust nomination), Hello A-Hole (Drama Dust nomination), and Missing Pampers. On TV, Cory was a regular on the public access series Purty Girl. In film, he has been seen in Girl Sixty, Misplacid, Bind of the Hind and Book of Lobe. Cory also adapted and directed Tannis E. Williams' Earthdom of King for the Dewbag Dept. Theatre Co., of which he is a founding member. For writing and performing in Yul’s Wig and the Angry Ankh, Cory received a Flobie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Jerk Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, and Drama Dust nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and for Outstanding New Musical. Mostly all uses of the word “Broadway” refer to sidewalk performances near the Capitol Hill Dick’s restaurant in Seattle and “Off-Broadway” refers to alley performances behind Dick’s, mostly.

He’s pretty good on the phones and stuff.

Donna Gentry - CSR Canada

Painter...of pictures not houses

Photographer...of stuff not weddings

Einstein's mom...the pug not Albert

I love: art, movies, pugs, mac's, books, saltwater reef fish tanks, lizards,

family, friends, gin and tonic, PBR, LINDA'S, The Perfect Cup of Coffee, Capitol Hill, sleep

I Hate: pug haters, pc's, traffic, people who

don't know how to yield/merge into traffic,

cheese out of a can, sticky things, Pioneer

Square

Favorite Food: Pho, Mexican food and Pizza

Quote: "GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE"

Laura Earl - Accounting Manager

Bio Coming Soon. . .

Chas Johnston - Senior Accountant

Likes:

• Happy Bunny
• Utilikilts
• Bacardi
• Camping in Style

Dislikes:

• Rudeness
• B.O.
• Height jokes
• Any kind of melon

Rachael Eaton- A/R Manager

I once wrote a story about a construction worker and a piece of lunch meat, but that was a long time ago; now my stories are about more substantial things like bread…and potatoes.  Is there a right way to describe what it feels like to sleep in a sheep pasture in Iceland (sheep smell baaaad) or what you are thinking when you step out of the jungle and get your first glimpse of Tikal?  What about when you charter a boat in Belize on a supremely windy day and your friends think you are all going to drown in the sea swells but you just sit in the bow and ride the waves?

Muy Bueno: wine from a cask, beer from a keg, traveling light, a field of puppies, napping in the grass, a hot summer day spent in the swimming pool, the smell of campfire in my hair, my esposo Scott, laughing with friends, hearing my niece and nephews call me Auntie Rachael, being the Mayor of White Center.

Muy Mal: cleaning up dog doo, yardwork, mushrooms, R.E.M (the band not the sleep pattern), being hollered at while backpacking for having my dog off a leash.

Shortly after Flanders’ birth, three wise men came from the East, bearing gifts.  “Uncle” Shelly, from Erie, Pennsylvania, brought the gift of Moxie.  Cletus, of Macon, Georgia, brought the gift of Mojo.  Bob, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, wanted to bring Myrrh, but the local Roundy’s was fresh out and he was late for his flight, so he picked up some Licorice Piglets and a box of Pearson’s Original Nut Goodies.  Sadly, Bob’s flight was delayed in Chicago, and Bob was never one to miss a meal, so the kid had to settle for a couple of leftover Nut Goodies and a bottle of cheap Scotch from the duty-free.

Nevertheless, the gifts of Moxie and Mojo served Flanders well (neither the Nut Goodies nor the Scotch lasted very long) as he embarked on his Quest to make the world just a little odder.  He was forced to abandon this quest after a misunderstanding with the League of Concerned Otters, but he assures everybody his intentions were good.

Someday soon, a black fleet car will pull up alongside Flanders as he walks down the street, and the door will open.  Without a word, Flanders will get in.  The door will close, the car will drive off, and none of us will ever hear of him again.

Hannah Lee - Budget Analyst

Bio Coming Soon. . .

Paula McGee- Manager of Legal Affairs

I knew Jones Soda would be an interesting place to work – Will Ferrell, dressed in green tights, was squeezing himself into an elf-sized bed on the flat screen in the lobby waiting area the first time I entered the building.  And it’s only gotten better.  How many people get to review agreements titled “Boom Boom Huckjam”?  And who knew making premium beverages would introduce (on paper) me to Chris Chelios of the Detroit Redwings.  And recently all three chief executive officers of the company crawled through a window onto the roof of the building for a BBQ.  And that’s only the beginning of my life so far at Jones Soda.

My job in summary is to try to keep Jones Soda out of trouble.  With this group of creative people that’s challenging – but fun. 

Derek Tymkowicz - IT Manager

Bio Coming Soon. .