Shining Stars
Age: 29
Company: American Solutions for Business
Title: Director of Vendor Relations
Education: University of Minnesota
Explain how you got started in the print industry: You could say that I grew up in the industry. My dad, Larry Zavadil, started American in 1981 when I was only a year old. The original office was in the attic of my childhood home, so I think my first experience in the print industry was running around and knocking papers off of the desks of the employees when I was three. I had many jobs within American throughout my youth—working in the mailroom, doing maintenance and helping out in the warehouse. After college, I became a sales associate for four years in Minneapolis, where I was able to gain even more knowledge about the industry before moving back to Glenwood to work at the home office to work with vendors and associates.