Founders of VendAIO
Mario Anthony Jakus
- Launched the Ansell Vending program with sales currently surpassing $75 million
- Author of the patent “Folded Packaging Gloves” for Vending,
- Author of “PPE vending machines reduce costs”,
- 2013 ISHN
- Global presenter at leading Procurement Conferences
- Established and sold Vendpaxx. A company dedicated to Industrial Vending supply chains
- Commercial Director .Televend Industrial (Hrvatska)
- Industrial Vending Consultant. Intis
- Researching the connected factory
- Investigating connecting factory machines to speak to vending machines when they require supplies for maintenance
- Multiple nominee for The Vendies Awards
- The "grandfather" of industrial vending in the world
- B.S. Montclair University - Industrial Technology
- M.S. NYU Master of Science – Technology Management
- Previous residencies include USA (California, New Jersey, Florida) Belgium, Ukraine, Taiwan and now Croatia
- Dual citizenship – USA and Croatia
Giulia Green
- Established and sold Vendpaxx. A company dedicated to the supply chains of Industrial Vending
- 7 years of experience in Industrial Vending
- Over 10 years of business development experience in various industries: vending, construction, HVAC, PR, translation, publishing, HoReCa etc.
- 15 years + experience in foreign economic activities and international trade relations
- Award for contribution to the activity of the European Interaction political party in Ukraine.
- Multilingual: EN, IT, UA, RU, basic HR and DE.
- B.D. Foreign Economics and Management KNEU
- Previous residencies include Italy, Ukraine, Belgium, USA, Malaysia and Croatia.