Kathleen Sarniak is a President with 20 years experience in sales management, marketing, production, and distribution with particularly strong skills in staff training and development, cultivating strong business partnerships, and financial planning and sales projections. Excellent record of achievement and advancement earned through demonstrated contribution to bottom line results.

Kathleen joined Jeannette Specialty Glass in April, 2003 for the launch of JSG Oceana, LLC, a trade name established to represent glass lavatories manufactured by Jeannette Specialty Glass. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing she established a sales network made up of independent sales agencies resulting in the opening of over 1800 showrooms in the United States in less than three years with 2 million in sales the first full year.

Kathleen took over the duties of President / C.O.O. in November of 2004. Her successes to date include building a team of supervisors that have increased production in both actual glass manufacturing and the finishing departments. She has utilized a hands on approach to reduce absenteeism and increase productivity thus resulting in reduced costs. Kathleen has streamlined the sales and marketing and manufacturing teams providing them with specific monthly sales and production goals.

Kathleen continued to grow the JSG Oceana Kitchen and Bath division product line with the 2005 introduction of glass tile and faucets, and the 2006 introduction of wood furniture. Kathleen introduced the JSG Oceana Giftware division product line in January of 2006. She successfully negotiated the representation of the line in four premier showrooms in the country; Lamont in Dallas, Bray-Farmer in Atlanta, Mandeville in California, and Isadora Mizrahi in New York. The JSG Oceana line produced $3,161,000 in sales in 2007 to represent 39% of the total business. The JSG lighting division has successfully increased its product line and customer base resulting in $4, 925,000 in sales, an 8% increase.

Kathleen spent twenty years in the Cosmetic Fragrance industry earning herself a reputation as a crisis and turnaround manager, moving from one sales deficient territory to another. Her success was transforming sales regions or departments that were deficient to sales plan, growth trend, and profit margins into one of profitable growth in a relatively short period of time. She has been described as a person with “uncommon perseverance”, “extreme attention to detail”, “unique ability to quickly implement realistic solutions”, and a “team builder”. She has a bold approach to problem solving and the courage to “tell it like it really is” while being professional at all times.