Our Team

The People Behind
the Brand.

Experts in marketing, creative, video production, and events — built for the food industry and beyond.

NxtGen Network isn't staffed by generalists who Google "school nutrition" before a client call. Our team is made up of former foodservice operators, school nutrition professionals, and industry members who've lived on both sides of the serving line. We've managed kitchens, walked trade show floors as buyers, navigated USDA compliance firsthand, and built relationships across the K-12 foodservice landscape long before we ever built a campaign around it. That dual perspective — operator and marketer — is what makes every piece of content, every strategy, and every event we produce resonate in ways our competitors simply can't replicate.

Leadership

The foundation of NxtGen was built on firsthand experience in foodservice operations and the food industry at large. Our leadership team has walked in the shoes of the professionals we serve — from managing programs on the operator side to building brands on the industry side. That's not a tagline. It's our background.

Marlon Gordon

Founder | CEO

Ashley Gordon

Chief Operations Officer

Angela Medvid-Roldan

Chief of Staff

Marketing & Sales

Our marketing and sales team speaks the language of school nutrition directors, foodservice manufacturers, and everyone in between — because they've sat across the table from them in real conversations, not just on strategy calls. Every campaign we build is grounded in the realities of procurement cycles, USDA guidelines, and the day-to-day challenges operators face.

Olivia Smith Burkhardt

Marketing Manager

Sara Ford

Director of Sales

Events & Client Relations

From NxtGen Network branded events to SNA shows and beyond, our events and client relations team doesn't just attend industry events — they help shape them. We know what resonates on a show floor because we've been both exhibitors and attendees. Every client relationship is built on trust earned through presence, follow-through, and a genuine understanding of the foodservice community.

Donette Worthy

Client Relations

Sarah Thomas

Events Manager / Client Relations

Editorial & Content

Our award-winning editorial team produces content that sounds like an insider wrote it — because one did. From Served Digizine to our podcast platforms, we create stories and resources that 90,000+ foodservice professionals actually read, share, and reference. We don't write from the outside looking in.

Stefanie Giannini, MA, SNS

Served Editor-in-Chief

Creative & Design

Our creative team designs for an audience they understand. Whether it's packaging that speaks to a director scanning products in a warehouse or a brand identity that commands attention at a national conference, we create visuals that are built for the foodservice world — not adapted from some other industry's playbook.

Sarah Kolcheck

Director of Design

Dimitri Morson

Creative Director

Bud Snead

Creative Director

Abby Fano

Graphic Designer

Video Production

Our award-winning video production team has documented the foodservice industry from kitchens to conference stages. From Next Up to From the Show Floor coverage, we capture the stories, innovations, and people that move this industry forward — with the production quality and speed that keeps brands ahead of the conversation.