SEVENTH WAVE REFRESHMENTS - Key Persons

Dave Carroll brings 35 years of experience in the Refreshment Industry to Seventh Wave Refreshments. He began his career working for Servatron, distributing OCS products to Southern California area customers. He became Vice President of Sales for Servatron in 1988. After the acquisition of Servatron by Vistar, he left to accept a position as General Manager for Aramark in Atlanta. In 1992 he became General Manager of Southern Refreshment Services. Since that time, he has overseen the growth of Southern Refreshment Services from 6 routes to more than 60 servicing the Metro Atlanta area. After serving 28 years with Southern Refreshment Services, he is now pursuing his dream of developing an employee owned business that delivers the ultimate refreshment experience to breakrooms around Atlanta. Dave brings an extraordinary amount of knowledge and experience as the Co-Founder and CEO of Seventh Wave Refreshments. Dave has 2 daughters with his wonderful wife of 35 years. In his free time, you'll catch him on the golf course or spending time with his family and two dogs.

Linda Saldaña joined the Refreshment Industry 9 years ago as a salesperson at Southern Refreshment Services and fell in love with the industry. In those years, she sold over $22 million dollars in coffee, vending and micromarket business. Linda has a huge passion for this industry and one day she realized it was all about the people! So she thought … "what if we could use that passion and the relationships built to create a company that was 100% employee owned?". She partnered with her friend and industry operations giant to launch Seventh Wave Refreshments! After taking that leap of faith, she is now Co-Founder and VP of Customer Relationships of this movement. Now, her mission is to bring joy to the workplace! She has three amazing children and one larger than life German Shepherd. Her greatest achievement is marrying her best friend that allows her to do ambitious things like launch this amazing company!