If you’re new here, welcome! Our meet the team series is a blog post series we created to give us the opportunity to introduce the faces behind the Spiff brand. A core tenet of Spiff culture is treating people with respect and counting on repeated games. That means, we put a lot of emphasis on relationships and getting to know each other.
It’s for that reason, we also think it’s important for our prospects, customers, and potential Spiff team members to also get to know the people that make up Spiff.
Let’s jump into this batch of Spiffers!
Kevin Carpenter, Senior Product Manager
Kevin is originally from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, but came to Utah to go to college and never really left. He started in tech doing QA at a video game company in the L.A. area, and continued that work throughout school.
Although Kevin found identifying problems satisfying, working with developers and designers to solve the problems proved even better. After working for many years in software QA, Kevin jumped at an opportunity to become a product leader. Being a product leader enabled more product improvements, solved problems, and created happier customers. This path ultimately led Kevin to a career at Spiff.
Kevin is married and has three children – an 11 year-old daughter, and nine and seven year-old sons. In his free time, Kevin loves to hike, bike, play sports and video games, and rockhound.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
MaryFran Anderson, Sales Development Representative
MaryFran is new to the tech space but not new to sales and has dabbled in retail throughout her career. MaryFran’s passions include travel, her girls, wine, and finding the perfect guacamole. She strives to be curious, adaptable, and kind in all walks of life and is excited to learn and grow at Spiff this year and beyond!
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Heather Adams, Senior Product Designer
Heather was born in Oregon and adopted by an amazing family from Washington. After moving to Utah at a young age she grew up loving to take chances and go on adventures especially when it involved motorcycles.
She always enjoyed art and learning about what made people tick. Being a fangirl of music is what started her love for design and giving people things to enjoy by creating band fan sites at the age of 16. In her free time she loves playing video games, motorcycles, rugby, swimming and being outdoors with the people she loves. Teaching her kids to enjoy life and do what they love has been her goal all while showing them that they can succeed at anything if they put their heart into it.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
McKalee Hoefferle, Solutions Engineer
McKalee was born and raised in Utah. She initially wanted to pursue a degree in the medical field, but later switched to business marketing. While she was attending UVU she was given multiple roles that lead her to data and business analytics. She continued down that path and worked for numerous startups helping to develop processes and teams.
For the past three years McKalee has worked part time as an EMT on an ambulance for a local fire department. She also is passionate about Burn Camp and has been involved most of her life. McKalee also really enjoys fishing and baking and makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Kristina Hales, Solutions Engineer
Kristina met her husband while attending Southern Utah University and they’ve been married for five years. Through IVF Kristina was blessed with a beautiful baby girl in December. Kristina and her husband were thankful that modern medicine was able to help them start their family and become parents.
Kristina loves working with people and technology. When I’m not working I love spending time with friends and family, enjoying the outdoors, shopping, and baking.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Raul Quintana, Solutions Engineer
Raul was born in a small town in Mexico and moved to the United States to receive a higher education. Mathematics and computers have always been something that have drawn his attention, so he pursued a Mathematics degree at Utah Valley University.
He enjoys teaching people new things and learning new things everyday. Traveling and seeing new places and cultures are some of his favorite things to do. Raul has a love for snowboarding, working out, and anything outdoors.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Katie Miller, Director of Marketing Operations
Katie is from the Philadelphia area, where she still lives in the town of West Chester with her husband, Andrew and two children, Cassidy (6) and Connor (2). Having a passion for investigating and solving complex problems, Katie found her niche in the field of Marketing Operations, which allows her to work with data and technology to improve processes and help drive growth for organizations.
She loves mentoring the next generation of marketing operations professionals and has enjoyed watching the function grow in recent years and gain the recognition it deserves as essential to modern marketing. Outside of work, Katie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, strolling through downtown West Chester and trying new restaurants, local breweries, or walking through parks.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Bradon Maughan, Senior Product Manager
Bradon has lived in Utah for the better part of the last 20 years but originally comes from Idaho. Early on, he found a passion for just about everything outdoors and loves camping, hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and golf. He loves spending time with his wife and kids creating awesome memories and growing closer together. Bradon is a big believer in the “work hard, play hard” lifestyle!
Bradon has been in Product Management for six years and loves working with people to understand problems they have and working with engineers to deliver elegant, simple, and appealing solutions. He gets pumped to see the excitement in users’ eyes when he gets to discuss ideas or show prototypes that will impact their jobs and lives. He has experience in several industries, including packaging, fulfillment, manufacturing, and financial services.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Yasmine Yacut, Social Media Specialist
Yasmine grew up in Arizona, where she also went to ASU! She has experience in campaign ideation, social media, and executing content ideas where she brings ideas to life in her work and her other creative outlets on social media. She loves the creative aspect of social media and connecting with other content creators. She’s most excited for Spiff’s B2B marketing and what we can do to build our social platforms and watch them grow!
Yasmine loves people, spreading good energy, animals, and most especially her senior cat she adopted in peak 2020. Ask her about her, she’ll happily send pics. Yasmine also looooooves to read and be outdoors. There’s not much she doesn’t love!
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Clay Fletcher, Solutions Engineer
Clay grew up in Indiana, went to school in Idaho, and moved to Utah for job opportunities and social networking. With experience in the finance world and an opportunity to hop into the tech world, Clay jumped at the opportunity to work with Spiff on the Implementations team.
Clay loves learning, being active, playing sports of any kind, new cooking experiments, sampling said experiments, and watching movies. According to Clay, the best way to spend time is at an amusement park, playing ultimate frisbee or pickleball, and putting a smile on someone else’s face.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Misbah Khan, Sales Development Representative
Misbah enjoys learning new things and using that knowledge in her professional life. Misbah has a bit of a competitive side as well! She’s excited to learn about tech and sales! In her personal life, Misbah is caring and compassionate and loves meeting new people. Misbah has a one-year-old son and she loves playing with him and taking him to parks and hiking. In her free time, Misbah loves watching movies and tv shows!
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Juliana Wilcox, Solutions Engineer
Juliana grew up on a small family farm and could often be found milking goats, reading, or playing her violin. She played in a string quartet with her siblings and, when she got older, performed in musicals and in many singing groups. By the age of twenty-three, her love for music and science led her to become an elementary school teacher and a private violin and piano teacher. Juliana loved using technology in her classroom and she took every education tech course that she could find.
Her interest in coding and ideas for teaching apps eventually lead to courses at the University of Utah in full stack web development. Geology and astronomy are still her favorite things to wonder about. She also loves spending time with her three children, running, making jewelry, and dancing.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Ty Hendershot, Solutions Engineer
Ty grew up in Utah County and went to school at Utah Valley University. He studied Computer Science and earned an Associate’s degree and a Certificate for Programming. Ty has worked more than five years in engineering positions, specifically in Software Quality Engineering.
Ty enjoys the outdoors, riding his motorcycle, and enjoys time spent with family and friends! He is a big foodie and loves finding new places to eat.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Sine Bentley, Design Intern
Sine was born and raised in Durban, South Africa. She moved to the United States after college and has since called Utah home. Sine is UX Designer with a keen interest in research. She’s thrilled about joining a company that takes pride in its design, people, and product.
She loves authentically connecting with people, reading, exploring, learning, and being of service. She can usually be found with a book in hand (or ear) while attempting to keep tiny humans happy. Her family is her greatest love!
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Oscar Mares, UX Research Intern
Oscar grew up in a small, rural town in the middle of Kansas taking care of animals and growing up with many, friendly people. Through his time living there, Oscar came to love both psychology and technology and began to wonder how he could combine these two passions.
In exploring this curiosity, Oscar stumbled upon UX Research and loved learning about how impactful the work can be in this field while also getting to know others more deeply. In his free time, Oscar likes to work out, watch sci-fi movies, play video games, and explore new cities!
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Jacob Carleton, Customer Support Technician
Jacob grew up in Panama City, Florida, and moved to Tallahassee to attend Florida State University for his Bachelors in Information Technology. Growing up, Jacob always surrounded himself with technology and video games. This allowed him to be exposed to technology issues from all types of categories.
Jacob loves teaching and showing compassion when solving issues either for himself or others. Outside of technology, Jacob likes to spend his time with friends and family. Jacob also loves food and likes to try new things. Jacob hopes to continue his journey of learning, not just in technology, but also traveling to new places.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Megan McGinley, Demand Generation Manager
Megan grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The small town where she fell in love with the sport of Volleyball. She left high school a semester early to join the D1 Clemson Women’s Volleyball team in Clemson, SC. Megan was the team captain, which stemmed her love for the Clemson family and passion for mentorship.
Upon graduation, Megan moved to Philadelphia to work with her older brother at a Philly tech start up. A bit untraditional to work with your brother, but the time they shared working together will forever be one of her favorite memories of her career. Family is the most important thing to Megan. She loves to keep her competitive edge alive by going to workout classes with family and friends throughout the city. She also enjoys taking her puppy to the dog park, happy hours, and meeting new people!
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Octavio Iacoboni, Solutions Engineer
Octavio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He lived all his life in the same city. When he started college, he had the opportunity to start working in the world of finance and accounting, where he discovered an interest in everything related to data analysis. For Octavio the analysis of different data is the key for solving a lot of the problems.
Octavio really enjoys playing sports outdoors and spending time with family and friends.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Luciano Marelli, Solutions Engineer
Luciano was born in Misiones, a small province in north-east Argentina. He majored in Accounting but his career took a natural turn to the tech world. He had a few repetitive tasks on past jobs and at some point he figured out the way to automate most of them. This newly acquired skill helped himself and while making others lives easier.
He lives in Buenos Aires together with his girlfriend and two lovely cats and when not at work, he likes playing soccer with friends or visiting family.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Lucas de Castro Lima Matos, Software Engineer
Lucas grew up in Fortaleza, in the northeast of Brazil and moved to São Paulo at the age of 19, where he has lived since then, working as a software engineer. As a technology enthusiast, working in the IT world is a natural fit for Lucas who is interested in science, innovation and problem solving.
Being challenged at work is what keeps him inspired and motivated, especially when he faces abstract, complex, real-life issues for which he needs to provide effective technical solutions. Lucas also has a love of spending some time with family and enjoys being in nature, studying finance, and talking.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Brian Allred, Customer Success Manager
Brian has spent the majority of his life in Lehi, Utah, where he, his wife, and four children currently reside. Brian has always enjoyed building relationships and spending time with others. He has spent the majority of his professional career in various account management, renewals, management, and sales related roles. This has provided him with the opportunity to gain many amazing friendships and acquaintances.
Brian has a passion for all things music, and is currently the lead singer in an “old school rock” band. Beyond spending quality time with his family and performing, Brian enjoys cooking, snowboarding, skateboarding and golfing. Oh, and if you spend enough time around Brian, you’re likely to laugh at some point, or admire his calves.
What excites you most about your role at Spiff?
Final Thoughts
Thanks for joining us for another installment of Meet the Team. If you’re not familiar with these posts or would like to check out previous versions, you can do that here:
- Meet the Team: Chapter One
- Meet the Team: Chapter Two
- Meet the Team: Chapter Three
- Meet the Team: Chapter Four
- Meet the Team: Chapter Five
- Meet the Team: Chapter Six
If you’re looking for content and resources related to sales commission and revenue operations, check out our latest blog posts:
- Ready or Not: Busting the Myth of Commission Automation Readiness
- Three Keys to Building an Effective Commission Plan
- The Sales Leader’s Guide to Using Mutual Action Plans
And that’s all for this post! See you next time!
About Spiff
Spiff is a new class of commission software that improves trust across organizations by automating commission calculations and motivating teams to drive top-line growth. With an intuitive UI, real-time visibility, and seamless integrations with the systems you already use, Spiff is the first choice among high-growth businesses.
