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Southern Refreshment Services Team Leader: Dan Hart, Owner/CEO Team Members: Jeff Parks, Greg Sams, Terry Todriff, Stewart Moss, Chris Hart, Scott Plaisted, Tom Beals, Nancy Siegman In the year ahead, major challenges for the industry and Southern Refreshment Services (SRS) include the increas- ing demand for micro markets, healthy snacks and updated technology. Optimization of roles within the business is a huge focus in order to take on these challenges. As SRS looks to use technology to add competitive differentia- tion and exploit new cost savings, the roles of existing personnel are expanding to include new profciencies in new processes and technologies. So far, SRS has been able to deploy tens of new micro markets in the span of a few weeks. It has also increased deployments with the new data collection system, Gimme Vending, giving them the ability to receive real-time data from the feld. Tech 2 Success Team Members: John Hickey, Don Bates, Darryl Perkins, Morgan Frazier Tech 2 Success helps companies achieve results in Inven- tory Accountability, Merchandising, Same Store Sales Improvement, System Selection, Dynamic Scheduling, Remote Monitoring, Web Technologies and more. The Tech 2 Success team has developed the Team Improvement Proj- ect (T.I.P.) management system to help companies achieve goals by reducing defects in their services and delays in achieving results. T.I.P. uses features of popular process improvement programs to identify and execute on oppor- tunities inside of a business. The Tech 2 Success team gives companies access to enterprise level IT, Operations and Vending Technology resources with objective advice. Three Square Market Team Leader: Patrick McMullan, Chief Operating Offcer Team Members: Matt Lardinois, Vice President of Operations; Brenda Stegeman, Director of Sales and Product Development; Katy Melstrom, Director of Marketing Three Square Market (32M) seeks to create success at every opportunity. This includes providing signifcant operational effciency through technology and expertise that allows operators to focus more on their customers, outsourcing their "busy admin and product management work" to 32M. The company believes that by paying more attention to the product and having a back end run by experts, operators should see stronger top line revenue, as well as more effcient and less expensive operations and overhead, thus improving cash fow and bottom line proft. This quarter 32M partnered with Vistar and its own institutional supply company to launch a one stop fulfllment initiative. It also instituted a complete "we run your back end" program. Nayax Embedded Software Group Team Leader: Philippe Berrebi, Embedded Software Group Manager Team Members: Ilan Graidy, Team Leader, Devices; Idan Blech, Software Engineer; Noam Ashual, Software Engineer; Yair Ackerman, Software Engineer; Daniel Perry, Team Leader, Card Reader; Lotan Ganot, Software Engineer; Idan Rubin, Team Leader, QA; Oded Frenkel, QA Engineer; Tal Goldstine, QA Engineer; Moshe Relles, Hardware Manager The Nayax Embedded Software Group knows frsthand that no one wants to have it take more than a second to make a purchase, especially at a vending machine. The Nayax team is working to make its cashless payment solu- McMullan Lardinois Melstrom Stegeman 32 Automatic Merchandiser VendingMarketWatch.com December 2015