>> So I went to undergrad at Pomona College and I majored in economics.
You know, honestly, going to Pomona it's a pretty -- It's a liberal arts school.
So I think when I was going to school it was always about --
The 3 skills you're going to develop coming out of college was you're going to be able
to write well, communicate well, and going to be able to analyze ideas well.
And I think those are pretty basic in that it's not unique to any one major.
It's any major you can develop those skill sets.
So I think I appreciated a lot this overall kind of well rounded curriculum.
And so in the end I stuck with econ because it was -- It had the best professors.
At least in my view.
I was able to take classes from really engaging, enthusiastic professors.
And it was just a fun subject.
So it took a little while to kind of get to marketing, but after undergrad I went
in to consulting and in consulting I spent about 8 years there doing a variety
of I would say project management, but working on strategy projects and process projects
for companies that leased and owned real estate.
And as you know, we've gone through a couple different real estate challenges
in terms of the market.
And so then I went back to business school because I wanted
to study something a little bit different.
And I was interested in marketing, kind of the creative
and strategic intersection that marketing provided.
And then so I ended up going to Kellogg
and at Kellogg I started looking at different companies.
Pepsco [assumed spelling] kind of was top of the list because of its opportunities,
the various brands, both small, large, and their culture's a lot more entrepreneurial.