Join us for an exciting webinar featuring key members of POOLCORP’s NPT Team! NPT provides industry-leading products, programs, marketing, and training combined with consumer-friendly design centers conveniently located throughout the USA. In this session, you will learn everything that NPT has to offer to both contractors and consumers, including pool finish, tile, hardscapes and so much more. Led by POOLCORP’s Vice President of Marketing Kendall Large and NPT Senior Product Manager Rob Blake, this session will highlight current market trends while providing insights that can help to optimize your building, renovation, or service business. Join us live to be the first to hear an exciting new announcement directly from this team!Â
Kendall Large joined POOLCORP in 2022 as Vice President of Marketing to lead the company's marketing strategy and demand generation. Her responsibilities include brand management, digital marketing, public relations and communications, sales center merchandising, customer experience, as well as event planning and trade show management. In the two years prior, Kendall served as the Vice President of Marketing for Pinch A Penny, where she was responsible for retail and service marketing strategy, brand development, demand creation, and new owner lead generation. Before joining the company, Kendall held several positions within marketing at New York Life from 2015 to 2021, including Corporate Vice President, where she was responsible for customer marketing and retention. Earlier in her career, Kendall worked in the marketing agency sector, managing large-scale branding, communications, market research, and customer experience design projects across multiple industries.
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Rob Blake, a Senior Product Manager for POOLCORP, began his career in the pool industry in 1999 as a manufacturer’s rep, selling and supporting a diverse product lineup that included pool finish, pool tile, along with a dozen other construction related products. He was hired by POOLCORP in 2004 to sell building materials for the West Coast. As a Product Manager since 2008, Rob has developed more than 10 NPT branded pool finishes or plaster support products that include about 150 pool finish colors. Rob is the main go-to for pool finish technical support for POOLCORP/NPT and is regularly contacted for support and advice regarding pool finish problems that occur throughout the country. Rob is also the NPT Training Team Leader, a team which has trained thousands of people since 2012. Rob graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Film from San Diego State University and had taken tens of thousands of images for product and lifestyle photography to support the NPT brand. He is an NPC Education Committee member for the past 15 + years and the POOLCORP liaison to the NPC.
About the Sponsor:
POOLCORP is the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool and related backyard products. POOLCORP operates over 450 sales centers in North America, Europe, and Australia, through which it distributes more than 200,000 products to roughly 125,000 wholesale customers. For more information about POOLCORP, please visit www.poolcorp.com or follow on LinkedIn.
