Meet the Team

Gabriele Grande-Edralin is a Marketing and Operations Manager with Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc. She is a business graduate who concentrated in marketing and minored in statistics at the University of the Pacific. Gabriele is interested in developing creative and inventive strategies to help clients make smarter business decisions. Additionally, she is passionate about building relationships with businesses and individuals from different backgrounds to gain a better insight and understanding of those she works with. Gabriele is always seeking new opportunities that help her grow on a professional and personal level.

Laura Chinchilla is a Business Development Manager at Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc. She finds Keynote Speaking opportunities that are a good fit for David as a speaker, grows clients’ network, and develops strategies leveraging technology and social media to grow businesses. With a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, a postgraduate program in Project Management, and 10 years of experience working with national and multinational companies, in Colombia, Canada and the U.S., her international experience provides a global perspective into the business that result in a better understanding of our clients, and how to build strong and lasting business relationships.

Jackee Lee is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley and now working as a Marketing and Event Coordinators with Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc. With an expertise in international relations, Jackee helps to connect businesses and individuals across multiple countries. In addition to marketing and event coordinating, she is interested in seeking innovative ways to help clients achieve their business goals. Jackee is continuously learning, as she believes that it will help her gain a stronger and well-rounded insight in growing as a business professional.  

Jamir Graham is a current student at Holy Names University, pursuing a B.A. in marketing and a minor in communications, and works for Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc. as a Marketing and Events Coordinator. Jamir’s proactive attitude and eagerness to learn allows him to assist clients develop business growth and marketing strategies with lasting and favorable results. With a passion for analytics, Jamir also provides insight on correlations between dollars and top line growth to help clients make better business decisions. When he is not working on business development or marketing campaigns, he is volunteering in his community or serving as a horse-riding instructor.

Brenda’s extensive background includes owning and running a construction company, along with providing finance and real estate business services. She makes the bookkeeping process as smooth as possible by being honest and reliable. Brenda helps our clients set up a business Quickbooks accounts, audit their books, conduct weekly and monthly bookkeeping, payroll and setting up methods to track and analyze sales, purchases, income, receipts and payments.

Drew Aversa was a paramedic/firefighter who found success in business – entrepreneur, SBE & FORTUNE 500 management, and transformational leader, Drew is dedicated to seeing others grow and taught college for ten years. Drew adds value to organizations by providing strategic counsel to C-level executives, program development, and organizational systems for leadership, sales, and team planning. In addition, Drew’s passion for health & wellness led him to be a registered yoga teacher & mindfulness practitioner

Dylan Denicke is a 15 year veteran of the Restaurant Industry.  In 2009 he founded Beast and the Hare, a full service California Meat-Forward restaurant in the Mission District of San Francisco with his business partner Ian Marks. For four years they roasted whole animals, cured meats, and played host to neighborhood folks looking for a good night out.  The restaurant was sold in 2015, and Dylan started soon after working for David Mitroff at Piedmont Avenue Consulting as a restaurant consultant.  In his spare time he works in his wood and metal shop often doing projects for other friends in the creative and entrepreneurial fields.

Gera is a strategic, visionary, and collaborative business leader who creates and executes strategies that achieve aggressive revenue and profit goals. He leverages his expertise of the full product life cycle to take innovative products from inception to global market success in highly competitive environments. Gera comes from a CPG background, Gera is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Marketing Management, Analytical Skills, Sales, Retail, and Pricing Strategy. Prior to founding and being the Chief Executive Officer of 6 Pack Fitness, innovative, patented, meal management travel gear and accessories for athletes and fitness enthusiasts: Gera held positions as a Director of Brand Marketing for Zoom Eyeworks and Brand Manager at Lowepro. From his experiences, Gera has become a relationship builder who engages employees and outside stakeholders to identify and go after profitable opportunities.

Entrepreneurial, Senior Executive with over 20 years of experience leading emerging consumer technology companies on brand and sales strategies including capital raise, organizational development, and growth plans as CEO, President or SVP Sales and Marketing.

Consistent track record of discovering, developing and driving new business opportunities for manufacturers and retailers in consumer product goods industry. Executed strategies across multiple product categories including consumer products, computing, console and PC gaming, display technologies, smartphone accessories, health and fitness wearables, 3D printing and app based hardware.