Chris Light-Financial Analyst

Today you will meet....

Chris Light
Financial Analyst

















Chris in College














Chris analyzing finance the hard way.

Name: Chris Light

Job Title: Financial Analyst

Hometown: Okemos, Michigan

College: Michigan

Zodiac sign: Capricorn

Best part about your job: Listening to marketing get in vicious shouting matches over things like which shade of cauliflower blue to use on the home page…….. oh and ensuring that we are a fiscally sound company, that too.

Embarrassing moment: Allergic reaction at product launch meeting that made me breakout like I had chicken pox.

Favorite 80’s or 90’s TV show? Seinfeld

Favorite food? Chicago Deep Dish

Something funny about you: Absolutely terrified of bridges, and I have to drive over a big one everyday

Favorite movie: The Rock

Is Skip your homeboy? Hell yea

Favorite quote: Facing the same challenge, some people say they can, other say they can’t. They both tend to be right.

Favorite JanSport product of all time: Odyssey 40^th Anniversary Pack or the Skip Bobblehead

My go-to Karaoke song is: Livin on a prayer

Any shout-outs: Everybody in Appleton who thinks Aaron Rodgers is the next Brett Favre.

Rico Pasqualini-Sales Director

Up today is our Adam Sandler wedding singer look alike.......

Rico Pasqualini
Sales Director















Name: Rico Pasqualini

Job title: Sales Director

Hometown: Clearwater, FL

College: University of Florida

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Best part of your job: Traveling the Country

Embarrassing moment: My College ID

Favorite 80's TV show: Dukes of Hazzard

Favorite Food: BBQ

Something funny about you: I bleed orange and Blue

Favorite movie: Napoleon Dynamite....starring Uncle Rico

Is Skip your homeboy?: Yep

Favorite Quote: "It's great to be a Florida Gator."-Rico Pasqualini

Favorite JanSport product of all-time: Odyssey

My go to Karakoke song is: "We are the boys"

Any links you'd like to provide us with: www.gatorzone.com www.tebowzone.com

Any Shout outs: Jennifer, Hanna, Mom, Dad, Coach Meyer, Tim Tebow #15, Brandon Spikes #51, Billy the kid

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Up next: Chris Light-Financial Analyst

Highlights from the Student Ambassador Visit

After a 2 week delay, we're finally back with some picture highlights from the student ambassador visit to California which took place over July 25-27.

Another hard day at the office.

Avi is just terrified of the short bus, Tyler is sleeping, and Teryl is hiding.

Such a good looking crew.

Logan came to California to learn, eat good food, and take home a souvenir bobble-crab.

Teryl and Amy are used to gators, but Jason showed them JanSport's pet mongoose.

After training, we sent all of our ambassadors home, JanSport style.

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Up next week: The Best Mullet from the University of Florida-Rico Pasqualini

A Day in the Life of JanSport

After much delay do to our student ambassadors visiting us out here in California, up now is the much anticipated world premiere of:

"A Day in the Life of JanSport"

Up tomorrow: Pictures of Student ambassadors in California.

Jason Lucash-Marketing Coordinator

Up today is.................

Jason Lucash
Marketing Coordinator



















Here's Jason from his high school football days....















Here's Jason hard at work at JanSport (in case you were wondering....the shot went in)

Name: Jason Lucash

Job Title: Marketing Coordinator

Hometown: Danville, CA

College: University of California-Davis

Zodiac sign: Libra

Best part about your job: In no particular order: Driving the VW Bus, staring at Carrie Steinberg all day, morning bagels, traveling, hanging with Skip, creating promotional items and events, running the student ambassador program and tailgate tour, and all the phenomenal people in San Leandro.

Embarrassing moment: June 10^th 1996, the Charlotte Wood Middle school year book comes out. I wait in line for a long time, eager to see how my portrait turned out. I get my book and like every student, the first thing I did was flip directly to the mugshot page to look for my picture. I find it, however I look underneath my picture expecting it to say Jason Lucash, which it doesn’t, but rather says….Breanne Lumley. I ponder, close the book, and open it up again to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I definitely wasn’t, my picture had been flip flopped with hers. To this day I have no idea who Breanne Lumley is, nor have I ever met her. She transferred after 6^th grade. Coincidence perhaps?

Favorite 80’s or 90’s TV show? 80’s = Alf, 90’s= Full House/Seinfeld

Favorite food? A cracked pepper turkey sandwich on sweet French with red pepper mayonnaise, honey mustard, onions, tomatoes, pickles, and provolone, sliced diagonally. This wonderful creation is from Domenico’s in Danville, CA.

Something funny about you: I know all Division 1 college mascots…quiz me. I also have never lost a dance-off.

Favorite movie: Three-way tie: Swingers, Wedding Crashers, Can’t Hardly Wait

Is Skip your homeboy?: Homeboy? That’s an understatement.... we go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly.

Favorite quote: “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.” - Jim Valvano

Favorite JanSport product of all time: Cooler Party Pack

My go-to Karaoke song is: Semi Charmed Life-Third Eye Blind

Any links you'd like to provide us with can go here:

www.jansportroadtrip.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sJjFMsyfgWk (The first ever backpack race)

http://www.eugenetoeurope.blogspot.com (my sister’s attempt at a blog)

www.lostwall.com (The Best photo site on the net)

Any shout-outs: Where to begin….. Brody the golden retriever, Staci “I’m now a grown up” Lucash, Mom and Dad, Makai, Tony Lee in Korea, Diba from the Columbia-Kansas City flight, Scott Ellison, Jack the Plinko Man, Canary Marketing, Chris Miller, Clyve the janitor at Los Cerros Gym, Spoungehair, 2007 and 2008 JanSport Student Ambassadors, Sticker Bob, Big Mike at San Leandro Home Depot, Chicago Mike, Lozelle, The Steinberg Cronies (JoJo, JoeX2, Johnny Pinto, Garwin, Big Robot, Splendora, Sephora), Michael Colorge, Sammy at Bluedish, The Roloff Family, Art Vandalay, Bob Saccamoto, and Breanne Lumley (hopefully by the power of this blog we will one day meet and swap 6^th grade pictures).

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Up on Monday: The world premiere of the movie "A Day in the Life of JanSport"

Kim Wolf-Financial Analyst

Up today is the biggest fan of America's Best Dance Crew......

Kim Wolf
Financial Analyst



















Here's Kim and her nephew (not her son) back in 2002.

















Kim loves Microsoft Excel.

Name: Kimberly Wolf

Job Title: Financial Analyst

Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA

College: USC Go Trojans!

Zodiac sign: Leo

Best part about your job: The people.

Embarrassing moment: Too many and too embarrassing to tell.

Favorite 80’s or 90’s TV show? Punky Brewster and Saved by the Bell

Favorite food? Almost anything I can put ranch dressing on.

Something funny about you: I am told I have weird facial expressions.

Favorite movie: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Is Skip your homeboy? Of course!

Favorite quote: “Do you have children in your life?”

Favorite JanSport product of all time: My artist series luggage because I can find it immediately at baggage claim.

My go-to Karaoke song is: I have zero singing ability so I am banned from doing any singing in public. I typically play air guitar.

Any shout-outs: My dance crew (not troop), friends and family in SB, Kelly, Luisa & Bon, Joni, M. Love, BL, Papi, Chewbacca, Star blood brother, my niece and nephews (also known as my kids to some): Zack, Ryan, Pierce and Sara, the Jabawockeez and SuperCrew, and Randy Jackson for making it all happen.

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Up tomorrow: Jason Lucash-Marketing Coordinator

Ann Daw- Director of Marketing

Up today is the faithful leader of the marketing department....

Ann Daw
Director of Marketing


















Here's Ann with Soda cans in her hair



















Here's Ann with Bullseye.....

Name: Ann Daw

Job Title: JanSport Marketing Director

Hometown: Holden, Massachusetts

College: Salem State College, (Salem, Massachusetts)

Zodiac sign: Gemini (and I definitely have the two-personalities thing going on)

Best part about your job: Day-after-day I'm entertained keeping tabs on the people illegally parking in the reserved carpool parking spots. Over the long range, I really enjoy watching how brands play out in a changing marketplace, in terms of both consumerism and media shifts. Changes are dramatic and most apparent over time and I enjoy observing, thinking about, being challenged by and participating in the marketing world.

Embarrassing moment at JanSport: In 2007 at a JanSport collegiate trade show event in Florida, I tripped and fell head-first into the metal steps of a parked shuttle bus and split my forehead open and put a long and deep gash in my shin. I was surrounded by work colleagues and it was very embarrassing because I was shocked that I fell, I was crying out of pain, and there was a ton of blood so it was quite the gory sight. They took very good care of me, though: I was ambulanced away with ice on several bleeding and swollen body parts, my forehead was glued back together, and my shin took 18 stitches. The embarrassment lives on because as trade show season comes around, the jokes about my accident regenerate with a life of their own.

Favorite 80’s or 90’s TV show?: Seinfeld

Favorite food?: I love fruits and vegetables. Big fan of a cold, crisp apple.

Something funny about you: I don’t like planned or canned humor, but I’m always ready for a good life laugh in the moment. I never remember jokes and by the time I attempt to deliver a joke I’ve usually ruined the punch line. I love to watch the funny things kids do when they don’t think anyone is watching.

Favorite movie: Being There (1979), with Peter Sellers.

Is Skip your homeboy?: Skip and Lance Wiser are my homeboys.

Favorite quote: “Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans”. (John Lennon)

Favorite JanSport product of all time: The Right Pack in classic tan zinnias, circa 2007.

My go-to Karaoke song is: Anything from The Who, Who’s Next.

Any shout-outs: All the runners out there.

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Up tomorrow: Kim Wolf-Financial Analyst