Mary Juliana has over 12 years experience in marketing communications. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, she worked on Capitol Hill for a future New Jersey governor, then as a legislative aide to a New Jersey Assemblywoman. In these political roles, Mary wrote speeches, press releases, articles and opinion papers, testified at House and Senate hearings, ran election campaigns, then later worked for a lobbying firm specializing in economic development issues.

After her stint in public service, Mary worked at Campus Dimensions, Inc., the largest college campus event marketer in the US where she coordinated national sponsorship events in 25 cities for such clients as AT&T and ABC daytime television.

Mary moved to southern California in 1996 and ran co-marketing promotions at Vons supermarkets' before becoming director of marketing for A.T. Mallad Enterprises, the world's largest Little Caesars Pizza franchisee with 159 restaurants. Mr. Mallad also owned 10 other national franchises including Bruegger's Bagels, Baskin Robbins, Golden Corral Steakhouse, Mobil Oil, Jiffy Lube, Big O Tire and a 50,000 square foot country-western nightclub. As director of marketing for all of Mr. Mallad's entities, Mary was responsible for marketing, advertising and public relations activities including media placement and purchasing, local store marketing, co-promotions, grand openings, press coverage and agency management.

After relocating to northern California, Mary caught the high-tech bug and worked for several start-up companies in marcom management positions. In these roles, she managed all marketing communications activities including product launches, press and investor relations, analyst coverage, collateral production, website development and trade show coordination. "I've worked for corporate America, entrepreneurs and start-ups and in each case I've learned the same thing," says Juliana. "Vendors need to treat your business as if it were their own. And that's the way we run Secret Sauce; we watch your business."

Pavan Gupta has over 7 years experience in creating marcom solutions. He has a Masters Degree in Fine Art/Graphic Arts from MS University in Vadodara, India.

Pavan served as a commercial artist in creative/art director roles for renowned advertising agencies where he serviced international clients from the United Sates, Europe and Asia. He has conceptualized, developed and designed all types of corporate messaging campaigns including identity packages, websites, marketing collateral, print ads, annual reports, screen shots, direct mail and trade show graphics. After relocating to the United States, Pavan consulted creatively to numerous high-tech companies in New York City and Silicon Valley.

He is an accredited webmaster from the World Wide Web Institute, Geneva, and is an expert in DreamWeaver, FrontPage, HomeSite and Flash. Pavan is also proficient in various design programs including PhotoShop, Illustrator, Image Ready, Fireworks, PageMaker, Corel PhotoPaint, CorelDraw, Microsoft Image Composer and GIF Animators, and is certified in Unix, C, C++, HTML, DHTML and Java Script.

While Pavan has extensive experience in multimedia and graphic design, he has also had original artwork published in the Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints and participated in national and international exhibitions, and received numerous awards.