At the core of our success is an exceptional team of technical and marketing leaders who are fully committed to the success of every distributor partnership.

Brenda Spencer, Head of Business Builder Department As the head of the Business Builder Department (BBD), Brenda Spencer manages a team of 25 Business Builder Representatives and 5 Technical Service Advisors who support our distributor partners at every step. Daily monitoring and monthly departmental audits ensure that all of our BBD coaches are prepared to make your new business successful.

Brenda's enthusiastic, highly focused team is dedicated to meeting the needs of your new business. In addition to managing the Business Builder Department, Brenda also manages the Locating, Marketing, and Technical Departments.

Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Brenda, her husband, son, and three step-children call Southern California home.

La Shawnta Sanders, Manager of The Business Builder Department

La Shawnta works closely with all departments including sales and accounting to provide quality assurance. She is responsible for updating our policies and procedures for serving our distributors.

La Shawnta acts as the liaison to our manufacturers for customer or technical issues, and provides timely feedback and one-on-one coaching to the staff. This in turn strengthens the capacity of the coaches to offer technical assistance, employ best practices and share information within our family of distributors.

La Shawnta also participates in the research and development of products and the functionality of the equipment we provide. La Shawnta is a hands-on type manager and trains the staff in this manner to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the equipment we provide.

La Shawnta is a native Californian and is active in local community youth organizations.

Xavier Logan, Business Database Manager

For more than fifteen years, Xavier's expertise is in compiling the most effective, accurate business labels for potential vending machine locations throughout North America. This is no small task, given Dun & Bradstreet's estimate that 700,000 new businesses incorporate annually.

Working with over 50 national databases that are updated continuously, Xavier compiles information critical to your company's success. With this information, Planet Antares can tell you the number of new businesses in a given area, their street location, and the number of employees. This highly specific information can target the businesses most likely to respond to our distributor partners.

Xavier refines the data to ensure its accuracy. Our goal is to provide our Planet Antares distributors with enough business mailing labels to analyze the market potential and maximize their company's growth.

Bobbi Stamm, Head of Media Library, Newsletter Publication

Bobbi manages one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-understand video libraries available anywhere. Our entire business process has been carefully documented on videotape. Before your new machines arrive, you can learn exactly how to unpack them, clean them, stock them and transport them to your service locations.

Our video library does more than provide technical details. These exceptional videos demonstrate how to communicate effectively with your customers and service locations - and walk you through other common situations you're likely to encounter when placing your machines. Learn how to get referral locations, and describe the benefits of your service simply and directly.

Bobbi also manages subscriptions to our Compact Vending Newsletters and gathers information about market trends and sales strategies. Weekly she reviews vending, beverage, and food service trade publications, business newspapers, in addition to doing Internet and real-world market research. As a reader of the Newsletter, you'll find essential information about your business, like changes in the federal tax code, potential tax breaks for distributors, critical menu planning, and how to better market your business in your community.

Bobbi cheerful voice is also featured on our corporate voice mail system, which guides you to the correct extension when you call our offices.

Jimmy Chan - Windows Vending Software - Technician

The Planet Antares offers our distributor partners an easily managed business. Our Windows Vending Software, designed and programmed by the Planet Antares IT team, organizes every aspect of your growing business: product costs, current inventory, profit margins, service records, location preferences, and more. Enter your route records regularly and our Windows Vending Software and it will identify your most and least popular products instantly. Jimmy Chan also provides technical support for our software via email, in our contact section of the website.

Charmaine Hedge, Marketing Administrator

Charmaine Hedge is the Planet Antares Marketing Administrator. Our turnkey business model enables new distributors to have access to marketing support materials, direct mail flyers, and self-promotion pieces. If self-produced, these services alone would cost a start-up distributor tens of thousands of dollars.

Charmaine works with as many as six graphic designers and ad agencies to ensure that our support materials have just the right colorful, eye-catching graphics to excite potential locations about your vending services. The best designs are also tested nationwide and measured for their effectiveness.
Our marketing support is like having your own in-house advertising, promotion and marketing company. Our color brochures - an integral part of the Planet Antares program – will put you well ahead of your competition.