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- Sykes Wilford
- Founder & President. These days Sykes spends most of his time purchasing pipes for Smokingpipes.com, working with customers and maintaining the website's code base and data structure. That said, he helps with a variety of things. By virtue of having been the sole employee in the beginning, Sykes knows a little about every job at Smokingpipes.com, which means that he ends up helping out with just about every process whenever the need arises. Sykes founded the company in June, 2000.
- Antonio Saintiague
- Vice President; Managing Director. Tony works in a variety of capacities, from marketing and advertising to brand development, but he's primarily a salesmen, spending most of his time helping customers pick out pipes. His incredible memory and extensive knowledge of pipes and pipe makers make him well suited to this role. Tony is also closely involved in purchasing, especially of high grade pipes. These days, Tony handles the majority of day to day management tasks at Smokingpipes.com. Like Sykes, Tony's been here a long time and frequently finds himself pitching in with various things as the need arises. Tony first joined the company in September, 2002. He did not, initially, make the move from Nashville, TN to Little River, SC, that took place in January, 2003. He rejoined the company in October, 2003.
- Bear Graves
- Copy Writer. Bear writes all of the pipe descriptions at Smokingpipes.com and takes particular pleasure in writing descriptions of high-grade Japanese pipes, drawing on his longtime interest in East Asian culture and arts. Bear also writes other pieces for the website, having written many of the brand or pipe maker histories and conducted interviews for our "A conversation with..." series. Bear joined the team in March, 2005.
- Gina Harrelson
- Bookkeeper & Office Manager. Gina keeps our books straight, maintains our files and generally tries to keep Sykes and Tony organized (a thankless and nearly impossible task; Sykes and Tony, by their own admission, do not have the appropriate reverence for important bits of paper). Most members of the staff have talents that lie, ahem, outside of the realm of the organizational. Figuring that we were particularly deficient in that area and given that Gina's the most organized person we've ever met, we hired her. We don't know how we functioned before August, 2005, when Gina joined the team.
- Adam Davidson
- Pipe Inspector & Update Quality Control. Adam occupies a crucial, but difficult to define, role in the process at Smokingpipes.com. His job is to make sure that we do things correctly. That ranges from checking pipes as they arrive to combing through the website to make sure that we have our descriptions and other information correct. Perhaps most importantly, he's an all round pipe guy, drawing on both a longtime love for pipes and his experience as a celebrated pipe maker. Adam also describes a few pipes each week. Adam joined the Smokingpipes.com team in November, 2005.
- Susan Salinas
- Purchasing & Estate Manager. Susan works with our tobacco and accessory vendors to ensure that we always have everything in stock. She is also involved in the purchasing of pipes and cigars with Sykes and Adam, respectively. In addition to her primary role, Susan also oversees the restoration of all of the estate pipes that we sell at Smokingpipes.com, drawing on her many years in the jewelry industry (much to our surprise, much of the equipment and techniques are quite similar). Her diligence and perfectionism make her perfectly suited to both of these roles. Susan joined Smokingpipes.com in September, 2006.
- Alyson Ranalli
- Update Manager. Alyson's primary duty is to organize the entire process that brings pipes to you each Monday and Thursday. She also assists with a variety of update related tasks ranging from photography to data entry to the occasional pipe description. Additionally, she helps out as back up for the customer service and sales team when they get really busy. Alyson joined Smokingpipes.com in April, 2008.
- Malcolm Halterman
- Shipping & Receiving. An avid cigar smoker, Malcolm works primarily in our shipping department with Allen, but he's worked in a variety of capacities at Smokingpipes.com, so he frequently helps out in the store and elsewhere. Malcolm joined Smokingpipes.com in July, 2008.
- Joyce Donatelli
- Customer Service Manager. More than likely, Joyce is the first person you'll talk to if you call Smokingpipes.com. Her primary duties are to help customers by phone and email. She also serves as the point person for customer service functions. Joyce joined Smokingpipes.com in August, 2008.
- Mark Pluta
- Customer Service & Merchandizing. Mark's primary responsibility is to help customers by phone, so along with Joyce, you're quite likely to speak to Mark if you call us. Mark also does much of the measuring and data entry for the pipes that we list in the update each week and writes some of the pipe descriptions each week. Mark joined Smokingpipes.com in January, 2009.
- Lisa Mogel
- Manager, Low Country Pipe & Cigar. Lisa manages Low Country Pipe & Cigar, our retail location in Little River, SC. Mostly this means that she works with customers, helping them pick out cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco. Additionally, she heads up our local public relations and marketing efforts. Lisa joined Smokingpipes.com in February, 2009.
- Allen Andrews
- Shipping & Receiving Supervisor. Allen is in charge of making sure your order goes out on-time. Since this is two or three full time jobs, Allen gets a lot of help. Even with two people who are primarily tasked with shipping, just about everyone helps out with shipping and receiving occasionally, since it's such a deadline driven and highly variable process (i.e. the packages have to go out and shipping volume can oscillate seven or eight fold, depending on promotions we run, time of year and, as far as we can tell, the alignment of the planets. In the weeks before Christmas, when looking for someone around here, the second choice after his or her desk is always Allen's shipping area). Allen joined the team in March, 2009.
- Tom Marsh
- Estate Restoration. Tom primarily works with Susan to restore the estate pipes that we list on Smokingpipes.com each Thursday. He also some of the weighing, measuring and listing of estates each week. Finally, he also pitches in with answering phones when customer service is busy. Tom joined Smokingpipes.com in May, 2009.
- Ron Howard
- Assistant Manager, Low Country Pipe & Cigar. Ron works in our retail location in Little River, SC. Mostly this means that he works with customers in our retail store, Low Country Pipe & Cigar, helping them pick out cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco. Ron joined Smokingpipes.com in July, 2009.
- Vince Mecca
- Sales, Low Country Pipe & Cigar. Vince works in Low Country Pipe & Cigar, our retail location in Little River, SC. Mostly this means that he works with customers, helping them pick out cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco. Additionally, he helps out Allen and Malcolm in shipping and receiving. Vince joined Smokingpipes.com in July, 2009.
- Bobby Altman
- Staff Photographer. Bobby does all of the photography for Smokingpipes.com, focusing specifically on taking exceptional photos of pipes. He has a background in food photography and photojournalism; food photography skills translate pretty well to pipe photography and having a photojournalist in the building helps to keep the rest of us in line. Bobby also continues to do freelance work for local papers. Bobby joined Smokingpipes.com in September, 2009.
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