Gregory Ahlbach

Gregory Ahlbach is the current Director of Wholesale at Philz Coffee. Gregory has been with the company for 9 years and 7 months, and has also held the positions of Wholesale Business Manager and Director of Wholesale. Prior to their work at Philz Coffee, Gregory was the Northern California Regional Manager at Hint Inc. for 5 years and 5 months. In this role, they managed 8 DSD partners and two major national natural food distributors, conducted key account calls with local chains to gain new business, strengthened existing business, launched 5 DSD partners, and helped establish and track an incentive program for sales representatives.

Before their time at Hint Inc., Gregory was the Northern California Area Manager at Jones Soda Co. for 3 years and 3 months. In this role, they managed 9 beverage distributors, communicated and executed monthly programming, presented distributor goals, tracked results based on quarterly and yearly budgets, conducted sales presentations, worked with distributor reps in all levels of the market place including national and regional chains, independent grocery, convenience, and on-premis accounts, partnered with distributor reps in obtaining new accounts and executing mass merchandising in existing ones, made key account presentations to buyers of independent grocery chains in Northern California, managed the execution of post off programming and merchandising in national and regional chains, and oversaw the launch of both Jones Organic Tea and 16oz Whoop Ass Energy can to the Northern California market.

Gregory Ahlbach attended the University of the Pacific from 1999 to 2003, where they studied communication-public relations. Gregory was also a member of the water polo team. After graduation, they completed a LinkedIn course in field sales management.