A Chat With January’s Profile, Ann Killeen, General Manager of Montessori Services

CS: How did you get your start in the catalog business?
AK: I started in 1989 working for Storybook Heirlooms, where I was director of IT and then director of inventory planning, for eight years. I was one of the five original people in the startup. I saw that company from nothing to $30 million dollars for those eight years. So that was a great experience. And then I went to Tzabaco, which was sort of a general merchandise marketed to gay men and women. I was first involved with inventory planning and then later operations and marketing. I also worked at Boudin for a short time, which is a San Francisco sourdough bread company. And then I worked for Real Goods for about three years, where I was vice president of marketing, inventory planning, IT and Web. Then I worked at Bullock & Jones for five years as the director of IS and also responsible for marketing.