Name: Andy Catsimanes
Age: 44 (D.O.B. May 31st, 1961)

Location: Overland Park, KS (Temporary)

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting, Marketing
Formerly Restaurant Management, Inside Sales

College
University of Florida ’79-85
Majored in Chemistry, Economics, Philosophy.

Years in business
Restaurant Manager 1987-1996
Restaurant Owner/Manager 1996-2001
Inside Sales 2001-2002
First website 2005.

Favorite Interests
Hangin with Shawn, my wife.
Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything
Florida Gator Football
Outdoors, Snowboarding, Surfing…(Guess why I don’t plan on being in Kansas anymore.)

Favorite Non-Marketing Books (I gotta agree, it feels “icky” spilling the beans on this stuff…)
“Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics”, and “The Dialogical Mind” by Mikhail Bakhtin
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
“Immortality,” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” by Milan Kundera
The Bible

Anything by Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, John Gardener esp. Grendel.

Copywriting/Marketing Books
1. Influence by Robert Cialdini
2. Working my way through “Successful Direct Marketing Methods” By Bob Stone
3. Just ordered "Breakthrough Advertising"

Favorite Movies
American Beauty
Anything by Charlie Kaufmann…”Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation,” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
“The Big Lebowski”
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
“Grand Canyon”
“Animal House”

Favorite TV Shows
“24”
“My Name Is Earl”
“Jeopardy”

Who do you look up to in business?
It’s ok if I say M. Fortin?
Dr. Harlan Kilstein
JP, and Alan Forest Smith

Hobbies
Hangin with Shawn, my wife.
Karaoke (OK, I’ll go along with that.) I do a bitchin’ “Mack The Knife”
Voracious Reading


Favorite Quote
“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are’” Nietzsche