DSR LIVE HOSTS

DAVE MIESSE

Dave focuses on foodservice sales topics on DSR Live.  He’s also a partner in Grade A Communications, producers of DSR Live, and a business development and marketing consultancy focused on foodservice, technology and nonprofit industries.

Dave is veteran consultant to foodservice manufacturers, distributors, brokers and operators.  Miesse has been involved in most aspects of the foodservice industry, including being honored as the national Distributor Sales Rep of the year by ID Magazine in 1985 after generating $12 million in annual sales.  Since then, he has worked as an adviser to hundreds of national and regional distributors, brokers and food manufacturers.  His career also has spanned management of a major food processing plant to his ownership of the Stagecoach Barbecue and Blues, an independent restaurant in South Bloomfield, Ohio. 

He spends his off hours with his two sons, two daughters and wife!  He loves music of all types.  And call Dave when you need a horse racing tip.

BILL HORNUNG

Bill focuses on foodservice marketing and management topics on DSR Live.  He’s also a partner in Grade A Communications, producers of DSR Live and a business development and marketing consultancy focused on foodservice, technology and nonprofit industries.

Bill Hornung has 25 years experience in all facets of business development and communications with an emphasis on brand positioning and research.  He currently works with a broad selection of clients in the technology, food and social service industries.   His consulting clients have ranged from General Mills, ConAgra, U.S. Foodservice, Campbell’s Soup Company, Sara Lee Coffee and Tea to helping organize Green Field Farms, an Amish-owned co-op dedicated to preserving 800 family farms in northern Ohio.

Previously, he spent 11 years with Hewlett-Packard Co. in a variety of marketing and management positions.   Prior to HP, Hornung spent seven years as a journalist working for daily newspapers in Arizona and Florida.  He also was owner and publisher of a small community weekly newspaper in South Carolina.

Most exciting is his membership in the North American Packgoat Association (yes, there is such a thing).  Packgoats are an alternative to mules and horses as pack animals when hiking into the wilderness!  He and his wife, Gena, also follow their son and daughter around to their singing/dancing competitions.  He loves music and fence building/repairing on his goat ranch on San Diego’s Palomar Mountain.