Before co-founding MTS, Beth was the CEO of Star Transportation--a family owned, irregular route truckload carrier founded in 1980. She was voted Industrial Business Owner of the Year in 1993 by the National Association of Women Business Owners. She is currently on the board of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Second Harvest Food Bank, and the Nashville Branch of Bank of America Advisory Board. Beth served five years as a member of the Nashville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, two of those five years she held the title of Chairman.
Before co-founding MTS, Mandee worked with Beth for almost 15 years at Star Transportation. Following graduation from University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a degree in Communications, she worked as a Media Buyer for The Tombras Group in Knoxville, one of Tennessee’s first ad agencies. In 1991, Mandee had twins and took a few years at home (as she says, “to recover from the shock!”) and returned to work in 1993 as the Executive Aide to Tennessee’s Governor Ned McWherter until the completion of his term. In 1995, Mandee began working with Beth Franklin, CEO of Star Transportation and future co-creator of Multi-Task Solutions. Mandee worked at Star for twelve years as right-hand woman to both Beth and Beth's father, David D. Dortch, Chairman of Star Transportation, until the creation of Multi-Task Solutions in 2007.
Cristina joined the MTS team in 2007, after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a double major in Human and Organizational Development and English-History. Born and raised in Atlanta, Cristina decided to stay in Music City after graduation. For the past few years Cristina worked at Midtown Café and sharpened her business skills under entrepreneur Randy Rayburn. Before joining MTS she worked on special events and strategic fundraising with the Special Events Team at the London office of Marie Curie Cancer Care, a national Charity in the United Kingdom.
Steve LoJacono (Pronounced: “LoJacono”) leads our Promotional Products and Wearables division, providing years of experience working with both large and small corporate clients worldwide. Via his experience, Steve has been able to develop long-standing relationships with many of the world’s leading suppliers in wearables, imprinted products and off-shore sourcing to provide our customers with superior value, excellent quality and Steve’s own home-brewed version of outstanding customer service.
Steve hails originally from Upstate New York where he worked in his family’s traveling circus trapeze act. Retiring early, Steve left the circus to serve his country for 11 years as a Green Beret, causing or quelling low-intensity conflicts around the globe. He currently resides in Nashville, spending time flying experimental jet-packs, honing his near perfect spelling skills and teaching haiku poetry to Nashville’s burgeoning expatriate Estonian community.
Stephanie, our creative director, has a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from MTSU. Before joining the MTS team, she developed her time management and client relation skills through a busy freelance career and was inspired by studio art classes she participated in during school. After doing various contracted freelance jobs with MTS, she was excited at the opportunity to be part of a growing company and decided to accept a full time position in May 2008. Stephanie is a member of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) and enjoys practicing yoga, running, reading maps and parallel parking.
Ginger, fresh out of Western Kentucky University with an Accounting Degree, has just recently joined our MTS team. Ginger jumped at the opportunity when she heard that MTS was looking for a new employee and moved down two weeks after the interview. After graduation and the move to back to Tennessee, Ginger began to indulge in outdoor/health activities. Ginger had been quite busy going to school full time to get out of high school and college in three years each, so she spends a lot of time trying new, exciting things. Some of Ginger’s favorite things in life are music, driving with music, driving with music with all the windows down, and chocolate.
Allie Cook joined MTS after moving back to Nashville, her birthplace, in June 2008. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco, TX in May with a degree in journalism. During the summer of 2007 she completed an internship in New York with World Magazine then worked part-time for the magazine’s online publication during her senior year. Her previous experiences also include writing and editing at The Baylor Lariat and interning in communications at Antioch Community Church. Allie loves a good coffee, conversation, literature and music, preferably all at once.
Becca joined the MTS team in January 2008 in a temporary administrative position and just couldn't leave! She will be with MTS through September, when she leaves to work in a Guatemalan school. Becca graduated from Vanderbilt in December with a major in Human and Organizational Development. Her previous employers are wide and random, ranging from LIFEBeat: The Music Industry Fights AIDS in New York to Mr. Teriyaki restaurant and JoANN Fabric in Ohio.