Management

Proven Experience

Pulse’s management team is highly experienced in growing and managing businesses, product development, marketing and distribution as well as logistics and public relations. Highly experienced, these individuals produced significant results for beverage companies and were responsible for much of their financial success.have successfully launched and/or managed more than twenty-five major brands over the past twenty years and have claim on, and access to, numerous buyers who supply thousands of retail outlets, supermarkets, convenience stores and mass merchants.

Robert Yates | Ronald Kendrick | Paddy Sheya | Robert Watkins | Dr. Pam Peeke | Bruce Horton | Don Prest

Robert Yates

President, CEO and CFO

Mr. Yates is a seasoned business executive with experience in growing and managing businesses. Mr. Yates has been involved in the beverage industry for over 20 years. During this time, he generated approximately $50 million in annual sales and managed the most successful master licensee for Clearly Canadian Beverage Company through much of Canada and the U.S. His distribution portfolio included; Monster Energy Drink®, AriZona® Iced Tea, Rock Star Energy Drink®, Vitamin Water®, Perrier®, Everfresh® Juices, Ocean Spray®, Miller® Beer, Honest Tea® and Fiji® Water. He has been involved in all aspects of the beverage industry including: new product and label development, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.In addition, Mr. Yates successfully launched his own brand, Kwencher, which he built into a 2 million case brand in two years. Mr. Yates completed a management course at Ogelthorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, and has an associate’s degree in business administration from Highland Park College, in Highland Park, Michigan and completed a Professional Personnel Management Course with the US Air Force.

Ronald Kendrick

Chief of Product Development

Mr. Kendrick has been involved in the beverage industry for more than thirty years. Between 1989 and 1999 he served as VP of Operations and Product Development for Clearly Canadian Beverage Company where he managed both supply and logistical operations during a time when Clearly Canadian sales grew from zero to $180 million. Mr. Kendrick was instrumental in designing and developing new products and packages for Clearly Canadian, improving its marketing capabilities and lowering its production costs. Mr. Kendrick then founded Catalyst Development Inc. and has created products for a host of beverage companies including Baxter Healthcare where he played a pivotal role in the development of the Pulse® product line. Mr. Kendrick is the past President of the Canadian Bottled Water Association and a member of the Institute of Food Technologist, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the International Society of Beverage Technologies.

Paddy Sheya

Director and National Sales Manager

Mr. Sheya brings over twenty-nine (29) years of international executive sales and distribution management experience in the beverage industry. He has a proven and successful track record in the development of brands and in building beverage brand sales and distribution systems from the ground up to multi-million case sales. A notable example includes leading Clearly Canadian® from nil to 4.8 million cases in less than 3 years as he administered 125 distributers and co-ordinated sales programs for all master distributers. He managed Kwencher® sales from nil to 1.7 million cases in less than 2 years along with bringing Blue Ox Energy Drink from nil to 850,000 cases and opening 122 distributors nationwide for what was then a new and unknown product. Mr. Sheya also managed a vast mix of beverage brands including: Jolt Cola®, Hires Root Beer®; Crush® Soda; Bubble-Up®; Country Time Lemonade®; Hansen’s Natural Sodas and Juices; New York Seltzer® and Evian Water®. Mr. Sheya, through Sheya Bros. Distributing, built a brand called Old San Francisco Seltzer which was the West’s answer to New York Seltzer. Sheya sold this brand to Cable Car Beverage Corp., owners of Stewarts Root Beer, a nationally recognized brand. During his career he has enjoyed excellent relations with major retailers such as Sam's, Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Walgreen's, CVS, Valero's, Public's, Win Dixie, Rainbow Foods, Safeway, Albertson's, 7-11, Circle K, Smith Foods, Kum-n-Go, Casey's, Sheetz, White Hens, Speedway, GNC, Conoco, Whole Foods, UNFI Rocky Mountain and West Coast, Sunflower Markets, Price Chopper Food Markets, Quik Trip and Vitamin Cottage and has further worked extensively with major distributors across the US as well as in Canada, Mexico, Ireland and the UK. Most recently he was the key account manager for New Leaf Brands, Inc. developing national sales for Inspiration Beverage and Bing Energy Drink. Mr. Sheya was educated at Eastern New Mexico University where he received a Bachelor of Science, Education with a Minor in Sociology. He was awarded an Athletic Scholarship (football) and Inducted into the ENMU Hall of Fame in 2005.

Robert Watkins

VP and Eastern Sales Manager

Mr. Watkins brings over twenty-seven (27) years of international executive sales and distribution management experience in the beverage industry. He has a proven and successful track record in the development of brands and in building beverage brand sales and distribution systems from the ground up to multi-million case sales. Mr. Watkins also managed a vast mix of beverage brands while at the distributor level. Most recently he was the national and International sales manager for Bai Brands securing distribution throughout the East coast and parts of the mid-west, Dubai and the Caribbean. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Operations and International Business Manager for New Leaf Teas securing distribution in the mid-south and the Caribbean. From 2005 to 2006, he was the On-Premise Sales Manager for Red Bull North America, the leading purveyor of energy drinks, where he managed a territory stretching across much of Southern Virginia. From 1993 to 2005 he was District Manager and Marketing/Merchandising Manager for Oak Beverages in the New York City market.

Advisory Board

Dr. Pam Peeke

Advisor

Dr. Peeke is an internationally recognized expert, physician, scientist and author in the fields of nutrition, stress, fitness and public health. Dr. Peeke is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. Dr. Peeke is a Pew Foundation Scholar in nutrition and metabolism and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Peeke investigated the relationship between chronic stress, nutrition, and weight gain. Dr. Peeke was the first senior research fellow at the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine.

Serving as Chief Medical Correspondent for Discovery Health TV, Dr. Peeke was featured on the award winning “National Body Challenge” Series and is the host of the “Could You Survive?” Series, based upon her national bestselling book Fit to Live. Magazines including O, Prevention, Fitness and More feature her columns and editorials. Major television and radio networks including CNN, Fox and NPR interview her as a regular in-studio science and health news commentator. Dr. Peeke is chief lifestyle expert for WebMD’s 50 million members. Dr. Peeke serves as spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine in its global initiative, Exercise Is Medicine, and she has been recognized by the National Library of Medicine as one of America’s leading physicians. Dr. Peeke is founder and president of The Peeke Performance Center for Healthy Living™. For more information visit: www.drpeeke.com

Bruce Horton

Advisor

Mr. Horton is a seasoned businessman and principal advisor to the Pulse management group. Over the years Mr. Horton has provided counseling to many international and domestic businesses in many industries. Mr. Horton began his career as a partner in a regional accounting firm where he specialized in tax planning, corporate restructuring, refinancing and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Horton co-founded Clearly Canadian Beverage Company where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Director from 1987 to 1997. During his ten year tenure Clearly Canadian’s sales grew from zero to $180 million and it became one of the nation’s leading suppliers of New Age Beverages. Since 1997, Mr. Horton has been a managing partner of the Calneva Financial Group, a consulting firm that specializes in helping companies in need of management or financial advice, and a boutique investment banker focusing on venture capital opportunities in Asia.

Don Prest

Advisor

Mr. Prest will assist in areas of public financial reporting and business planning for the Company. Mr. Prest is a retired US and Canadian public company assurance partner where he practiced for 17 years at a large regional PCAOB registered accounting firm. Prior to December 31, 2009 Mr. Prest was an assurance partner for over 150 public US companies. Mr. Prest is a 1/3 owner of FBP Capital Corp. ("FBP"), a merchant bank, for 7 years. Mr. Prest also serves as Chief Financial Officer and a director for Omnicity Corp. a US public company in the Wireless Internet Service Provider industry, where he spends approximately 25% of his time. He has served as the Chief Financial Officer for Power Air Corporation for three years ended September 30, 2008. Power Air was a public fuel cell company. Mr. Prest started his career in 1983 upon graduating from BCIT in Financial Management. Mr. Prest received his Canadian CA designation in 1991 and his US CPA designation in 1997.