The New Vice President of Marketing and Water at Antunes
Antunes Talent: Melissa Neckopulos is promoted
Carol Stream, IL – Antunes, a leading manufacturer of custom food service equipment, automation and water treatment, selected Melissa Neckopulos, as the company’s new Vice President of Marketing and Water. Melissa joined Antunes in 2019 as the GM of Water. During her tenure, she has expanded Antunes’ water product offerings, increased customer reach, strengthened the partnership with Splash, and released AntunesWater.com. Melissa is a Master Water Specialist and a Certified Food Service Professional. While building on her role in Water, Melissa now also leads Antunes’ marketing vision. The promotion was implemented in November of 2021 and is effective immediately.
“Antunes is a leader in customer-centric innovative solutions. As the VP of Marketing and Water, I’ll have direct impact on connecting our marketing actions to business growth while executing a strategic vision. I look forward to this expanded role, and to continuing the expansion in Water and impactful work with Splash,” said Melissa Neckopulos.
With the launch of Antunes Water, Antunes has emerged, not only as a business-to-business provider of water treatment to restaurant chains globally, also as a business-to-consumer solutions provider of complete home water treatment by including ultrafiltration, water softeners and reverse osmosis to their e-commerce website. Melissa will now assist in achieving the organization’s growth goals in Marketing and Water.
“For the last three years, we have observed Melissa’s drive and passion for our water filtration product line expansion and the overall growth of this particular business unit. Today, in Melissa’s newly created expanded role, we are excited to see to what levels she will take the Marketing department to assist in driving our total corporate business forward,” said Tom Krisch, Executive Vice President of Sales at Antunes.
Antunes announced the previous Vice President of Marketing at Antunes, Daniel Schmidt, has been promoted to the Managing Director of International Business.