The MCI Baltimore team gathered for their annual end of year luncheon that included festivities like games, raffle prizes, a festive wear contest, as well as well-deserved recognition for colleagues who have excelled during the year. 

This year, recognition went to:

MCI Creative 

Aubrey Swanson was recognized as the 2019 Super Arty. The Super Arty Award goes to the design talent who has had the most impressive year overall. Congratulations Aubrey!

MCI SS&S All Star: Mark Stout 

Mark has sold more than 23MILLION in sales in the last 10 years with our team. He consistently meets and exceeds his sales targets and his contributions to the team have helped our business grow. 

Sales Team Exceeding Sales Quotas: 

  • Ben Ledyard – 106% to quota on ATD
  • Mark Stout: 101% to quota for ATD
  • Sam Roesler: 115% to quota on AACP
  • Jonathan McGraw: 100% to quota on MSBA; 122% to quota for ABA Family
  • Darlene Rives: 151% to quota on MSBA
  • Kyle Elgin: 111% to quota for COSIDA
  • Holly Klarman: 103% to quota on NYSBA
  • Jeff Rhodes: 102% to quota on GCCA
  • Carly Heidiger: 103% to quota on ABA YLD, 113% to quota on OCEANS
  • Marlena Turner: 119% to quota on ANA Magnet 
  • Allison Zippert158% to quota on ANA Magnet 
  • Colby Hogan 116% to quota on Cannabis Business Summit Todd hold/read these

In 2016, we started to recognize a talent in another department that has impacted the sales team through their work. Our sales team could not deliver millions of dollars in sales revenue without the support of design, marketing, quality assurance, credit, collections, accounting or tech. It really is a team effort. As we think about the work delivered this year, the sales team has identified one stand-out team player that really helped us ROCK IT this year and that is CHRISTINE BAXLEY! 

Rookie of the Year: Colby Hogan 

In his first year on our team, he crushed his CBS sales numbers and sold the only Platinum Sponsor for the event.  

AE of the Year: Holly Klarman 

  • Successful lunch effort with our first market intelligence sales effort with AVIXA
  • Transitioning and partnering with Jakeon EEI transition. Holly grew EEI sales by almost 20% 
  • Growing the AIHA sales portfolio – sales grew 15% from 2018 to 2019
  • Exceeding quota on NYSBA by and growing YOY sales. We relaunched NYSBA and sales were maybe 300. 2019 sales are over 732K. Holly grew sales by 51% from 2018 to 2019.

Senior Team Recognition:

We have five salespeople in the team that have closed a significant amount of revenue over the last ten years…between them, we’re talking almost 90M dollars. 

  • Katy Lewis at 12Min sales
  • Chris Martin at 14Min sales
  • Jeff Rhodes at 18Min sales
  • Ben Ledyard at 19M in sales
  • Mark Stout with 23M in sales

Quality Assurance Department’ s Outstanding Customer Service Award: Meredith Targarona 

Quality Assurance Department’ s Accuracy Award: Emily Shawen 

Lifetime Carrot Award: Christine Baxley

“Christine, you are amazing on so many levels. We are honoring you today for the life you breath into our department, for the joy (and candy!) you provide for all of us, and for your incredible arts and crafts talents that make holidays so special. Quality Assurance and MCI would not be the same without you and your giving heart. Thanks for caring about us in BIG and small ways!” said Bob Rupp, Quality Assurance Manager.

Marketing Evolution Award: Jonathan Mcgraw

From the Marketing department, one new award was given to a talent within the SS&S BU: 

This year we’re giving an award called the Marketing Evolution Award to Jonathan Mcgraw. This award recognizes the growth of a salesperson, their willingness to test and experiment various marketing tactics, and their ability to collaborate and help in any way needed with our marketing department to execute on the marketing for their accounts.