GALLERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- National Accounts Director
Role: Sales of electric vehicles, carts, kiosks and portables
Education: B.A. in marketing from Northern Arizona University
Experience: Although Ashley officially joined the Gallery team full-time in 2021, she's been a part of the Gallery team since 2017. While formerly serving as Einstein Bros. Bagels and Caribou Coffee's Director of Brand Integration and Special Projects, Ashley was a client of Gallery and worked with our company to develop high-quality electric vehicles.
Now, Ashley oversees Gallery's sales of electric vehicles, as well as carts, kiosks and portables, for all sorts of customers, including large brands like Aramark and Legends.
A mother to a young daughter and toddler son, Ashley loves to travel in her spare time. She also enjoys going skiing or camping and or hanging out with friends.
Role: Product design and project quoting
Education: B.S. in Industrial Technology from Arizona State University
Experience: As one of Gallery's lead designers for more than 20 years, Craig creates high-quality designs and creative solutions for clients. Over the years his designs have addressed the evolving challenges that Gallery's clients face in various types of venues, whether it's entertainment, travel, corporate or education. To Craig, innovation is about flexibility to react creatively to customer needs. Craig's 28 years in the foodservice design industry has resulted in countless projects and contexts installed in venues all over the country.
Experience: Dan brings 12 years of experience to Gallery in credit risk management, mortgage-related services, and business development. In roles at companies like Murrayhill, Allonhill and Stewart, Dan's hands-on career opportunities positioned him well to provide superior customer service with the people and technology resources that now help him lead Gallery as its president.
Dan continues to evolve the industry-leading innovation and customer service that has made Gallery one of the most successful cart, kiosk, and mobile solutions businesses in the nation. His overall focus is to improve efficiency and client transparency for companies, including evolving products, service models, and technology to meet the needs and standards of the company's partners and clients.
When he's not managing large operational teams, Dan loves to spend quality time with his daughter Maddie and their new black lab Miles. His hobbies also include traveling, golf, fishing, and hiking.
Experience: The leading force at Gallery for more than 40 years, Dan built Gallery into an industry disruptor that charted new paths in the design, fabrication and installation of mobile merchandising for food, beverage and retail concepts.
Since he started the company in 1980, Dan continues to evolve the cart industry he invented more than four decades ago. Though he initially began with mobile carts, he has led solution initiatives that now include kiosks, portables, modular systems, golf vehicles, e-vehicles, pop-up containers and modular buildings in all kinds of locations like airports, colleges, stadiums, arenas and golf courses.
But Dan's not all work. When he's not pioneering the mobile cart, kiosk and portables industry, Dan loves to travel, play golf, drag race, collect muscle cars and spend quality time with his seven grandchildren.
Role: Sales of electric vehicles, carts, kiosks and portables
Education: B.S. in Business Management from Florida Atlantic University
Experience: A part of the sales department since 2020, Geoffrey works side-by-side with project managers, engineers and our production team to assist in delivering an excellent product to Gallery customers. Plus, he provides insight to our teams about various client needs, ensuring everyone works together to achieve our goals.
Since joining the Gallery team, Geoffrey has served more than 100 clients, mostly by helping colleges and universities expand the availability and accessibility to mobile food options. He's also been a part of significant product launches - such as Club Car's 411 vehicle - by managing components like design execution, operations and marketing the vehicles.
Role: Components and structures design and inventory maintenance
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University
Experience: In the nearly two years Herluf has worked with Gallery, he's engineered dozens of client jobs from start to finish and helped steward Gallery's engineering process to handle the increased capacity Gallery recently invested in. He uses his role to refine, adapt and adjust processes to meet the unique demands of large and highly-customized jobs.
In his personal life, Herluf is a burgeoning cook, an avid movie buff and St. Louis sports watcher. When he's not climbing or skiing down mountains, you can find Herluf reading fantasy books and playing with his cat Professor Catface Meowmers.
Role: Production operation management
Experience: With more than 10 years of experience in and a passion for business operations, Jeff manages Gallery's process and capability, quality, inventory control and inbound and outbound functions. His diverse background helps him juggle these varied responsibilities: he's handled forklift operations, global distribution management, and even pick-and-pack fulfillment in the past. Last year Jeff managed the production of two of the industry's largest projects, and he led his team to produce more than 700 carts.
To provide a seamless customer experience, Jeff works alongside and supports the robust team of creative engineers, project managers, and production team, all of whom collaborate to maintain Gallery's standard of quality excellence.
When not in the warehouse you can find Jeff on a golf course, mountain trail, or a stream. He plays and watches football, and spends time with his family.
Job Titles:
- Director, National Accounts
Role: Design and development
Education: B.S. in Industrial Design from the Metropolitan State University of Denver
Experience: Justin has worked with Gallery since 2014, refining the processes he works with based on client experiences every day. With extensive experience in design, manufacturing, and installing all of Gallery's lines of solutions, Justin's prior industrial designs for brands like Tommy Armour have been mass-produced and sold in stores across the country. He brings this experience to help Gallery effectively assist clients with designs and concepts that meet their needs and fit their budgets, which in his view is how Gallery achieves its stand-out reputation for excellence in design.
Because he's committed to finding unique solutions for every project, Justin is also known for delivering the usual level of personal support and customer service that clients have come to expect from the Gallery family.
Outside of the office, Justin's aptitude for design shows up in his hobby of designing and fabricating furniture. He also likes all mountain activities, like snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking and camping. Plus, he's a car enthusiast who enjoys car shows, working on his Toyota 4Runner, and browsing car dealerships.
Role: Accounting, finance and HR strategy and operations
Education: B.S. in Accounting and Postgraduate Certificate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Experience: Formerly the accounting supervisor and controller at Intelligent Lighting Creations, Pat brings more than 15 years of experience in accounting and finance to the role he's held at Gallery for nearly six years. Day-to-day Pat oversees accounting team operations and ensures billing and payment process efficiency for all customers. This work contributes to Gallery's strong vendor relationships.
Pat has developed a high-performing, customer-centric team to handle the business' transactions aimed at driving value for the Gallery brand for generations to come. A servant leader, Pat wears any hat the company needs him to, including best practices review, inventory management, job costing, IT coordination, and more.
Like many of the Gallery family, Pat is originally from Chicago. His hobbies include practicing his golf swing and enjoying the outdoors with his and his wife's Bernese Mountain Dog, Grover. Additionally, he loves to travel the world and cheering for their favorite sports teams (Go Cubs, Bears and the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team)!
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Operations
Role: After-sales success, primary engineer
Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California
Experience: Ran has been with Gallery for two years but has already made a significant impact. Having had a hand in the successful delivery of 100+ projects, Ran has introduced new LEAN processes at Gallery that have increased our capacity and efficiency. You can learn more about that here, including a video interview with Ran.
Ran's day-to-day is to help Gallery's operations team achieve success at every step that occurs after sale, all the way to final delivery through lifetime service. What that really means is leading the team: finding areas of difficulty and helping eliminate them. Nor is Ran afraid of rolling up his sleeves: if it means pushing carts through stadiums, that's what he'll do.
Ran spends most of his free time walking his two labradors, working on cars in his garage, or on a bicycle or trail run.
Role: Shipping and freight management and onsite installation and setup
Education: B.A. in communication from Metropolitan State University
Experience: With Gallery since 2018, Rory has jumped in to handle the installation of national brands like Denver's Maui Wowi, Chick-fil-A Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and SoFi Stadium in California. He brings those lessons-learned to all Gallery customers, especially the need to adjust to client needs throughout the process even when that means quick in-field solutions.
Rory leads the company's customer response, ensuring it aligns with all on-site specifics, as well as the relationships with general contractors, health department officials, and other vendors throughout the life of the project.
Outside of work Rory is an explorer. He's a hiker and backpacker with a passion for travel, photography, live music, crate-digging, hip-hop music and taking long walks with Finn, his four-legged friend.