Bakersfield

Chico

Fresno

Hayward

Manteca

Oakley

Joe Aliotti

District Manager

Joe was born In Boise, Idaho but was raised in the Bay Area. He is a graduate of California State University, Fresno. He and his wife continue to live in the Bay Area today with their 2 children. He joined R&B in June of 2014.

Shannon Galarza

Office Manager

[email protected] 925.679.8005

Shannon was born and raised in the Bay Area where she continues to live and work today. Previously she worked for the Reclamation District for 5 years. She has four daughters and one granddaughter. She has been with R&B since December 2014.

Jeff Franks

Sales

[email protected] 925.250.6615

Jeff was born in California, raised in Oregon, and attended college in Texas. He now resides in Brentwood with his wife and son. He worked for 14 years in underground construction as a foreman, project manager, and chief estimator. He has been serving as a board member of the Contra Costa Builders Exchange since 2005. Jeff joined R&B in March of 2007.

Misty Walters

Inside Sales

[email protected] 925.382.5086

Misty was born and raised in the Bay Area where she continues to live and work today. She started in the waterworks industry at Kenko Utility Supply in 2003. She joined R&B Company in May 2005.

Redwood City

Jon Drake

District Manager

[email protected] 650.465.8386

Jon was born & raised in San Jose, CA. He worked for Kenko Company for 3 years. Jon joined R & B Company in July 2010.

Vanessa DiRicco

Office Manager

[email protected] 650.670.2504

Vanessa was born in Santa Rosa, but raised in Millbrae. She went to Mills High School where she played soccer and softball. Vanessa has been in the Bio Tech industry for over 7 years. She joined R&B Company in August 2012.

Ignacion Leon Jr.

Warehouse Manager

[email protected] 650.704.7766

Nacho was born in Los Angeles, California and moved to the Bay Area in 1999. He started working for Infinity as a manager from 2006-2011. In September 2011 he started working for R&B in as a Class A driver and is now the warehouse manager for the Redwood City branch. He currently lives in Newark with his wife and 3 daughters.

Alan Nelson

Sales

[email protected] 650.333.5995

Alan was born and raised in San Francisco. He started at Dalziel Plumbing Supply in 1980. He joined R&B in 1994 where he has worked in jobs from delivery driver to inside sales.

Rory Gamblin

Sales

[email protected] 650.222.6384

Rory was born in Los Angeles and moved to Northern California in 1977. He presently resides in Sunnyvale. He started in the waterworks industry in 1984 at Groeniger & Company's Hayward location. He moved into sales after a short period of time. In 1992, he changed to Kenko Utility Supply in San Jose as an outside sales associate. From there, he went to work for The Frank A. Olsen Company, a manufacturer's engineered valve representative, in Livermore as an outside sales associate. He joined R&B in 2003.

Bobby Gilmer

Inside Sales

[email protected] 650.222.6041

Bobby was born in Watsonville Ca. but was raised in Stanislaus Count where he graduated from Hilmar High School. He joined R&B company in 2002 where he worked various jobs from counter sales to inside sales.

Gabriel Chavez

Inside Sales

[email protected] 408.314.7099

Gabe was born and raised in San Jose. He went to college at the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a degree in business and economics. Gabe moved back to San Jose and joined R&B in November of 2016.

Miguel Barriga

Inside Sales

[email protected] 650.537.2866

Miguel was born and raised in Mexico. He lives in Ceres with his wife and two children. He moved to the U.S. in 1993 and started working for an airline catering business based at the San Francisco airport. He joined R&B in 1999 in the warehouse and has worked his way to inside sales.

Ruben Oseguera

Inside Sales

[email protected] 510.506.0087

Ruben was born in San Francisco CA, but raised in Mexico. In 2003, he moved back to California and attended Fremont High School in Oakland CA. He worked in the food industry for 6 years. In 2013 he started working for a contractor in the plumbing industry. In 2014 he joined R&B Company working in the warehouse, working his way up to the counter, then receiving and now as inside sales. He continues to work hard and progress for the company.

Tony Nagata

Inside Sales

[email protected] 650.387.6786

Tony was born in San Leandro, CA and raised in Sunol, CA. He is married with two daughters. Tony went to college at Cal State Hayward and graduated with a Business degree. He worked for Groeniger & Company/Ferguson Waterworks for 11 years. Tony started at R&B Company in January 2018.

West Sacramento

Salinas

San Jose

San Jose Fusion

Richard Eoff

District Manager

[email protected] 661.244.7520

Richard was born and raised in the Central Valley of California. He and his wife were married in 1994 and reside in Bakersfield, Ca with their daughter. Richard began working in sales/construction in 1996. For the last 13 years, he has specialized in HDPE Pipe, fittings and fusion. He has previously worked for P&F Distributors and Maskell Pipe & Supply serving the oil, water, sewer and agriculture markets. He joined R&B Company in June of 2016.

Daniel Inouye

Branch Operations Manager

[email protected] 408.891.3781

Daniel Inouye was born and raised in Campbell, Ca. He attended Lindenwood University on a hockey scholarship and graduated in 2014. He lived in Italy for a year in 2015. Daniel began working at R&B Company in January of 2016.

Kelly Eoff

Sales/Fusion Coordinator

[email protected] 661.699.7192

Kelly was born in Berkeley, and grew up in Bakersfield where she still resides with her husband of 23 years. Together they have one daughter who lives in Southern California. After college, Kelly worked for Longs Drug Store as a department manager. Once married her and her husband opened a successful business and worked together until selling it in 2002. She then enjoyed being a stay at home mom until rejoining the workforce with Maskell Pipe & Supply as sales/office manager. Kelly joined the R&B team in August 2017.

Tony Ventura

Warehouse Manager/Master Mechanic

[email protected] 650.468.7468

Tony was born and raised in San Jose where he still lives with his wife and two children. At Kenko Utility Supply in the year 2000, Tony worked as a delivery driver and then he was promoted to Warehouse Manager. Tony joined R&B in August 2009.

Alyx Duran

Inside Sales

[email protected] 408.556.4472

Alyxandria was born and raised in San Jose, CA, where she currently resides with her family. She graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in 2012. Alyx joined R&B Company in September 2015.

Murray Sullivan

Inside Sales

[email protected] 432.202.6337

Murray is a native if Northern Colorado. He spent 25 years working for American Airlines. He then went to work for McElroy Manufacturing in their Technical Service Department. Murray joined R&B in 2015.

Rudy Martinez

Inside Sales

[email protected] 408.318.7052

Rudy was born and raised in Santa Clara. He graduated High School in 2009. In 2015 Rudy began working at R&B in the warehouse. He worked his way up and in 2017 he became a salesman at the San Jose Branch.

Hector Salas

Fusion Tech

[email protected] 650.670.2203

Hector was born in Mexico and raised in the Bay Area since he was 3. He recently got married and is expecting his first baby boy. Before R&B he did powder coating at an electrical switchboard company. He joined R&B company in December 2015.

Manuel Garcia

Fusion Tech

[email protected] 209.272.0526

Manuel Garcia was born in San Francisco and grew up in Fresno. He attended UCLA and then became a Firefighter for Fresno County. In 1989, he started working for Maskell Robbins as a part time fusion technician as he was still a firefighter. He moved to a full time fusion technician position and was then given the opportunity to help open the Forrer Supply branch in Stockton. In 2013, he opened the Maskell Pipe location in Tracy. He joined R&B in 2014.

San Jose Corporate

Reed Mack

Consultant

[email protected] 408.556.4442

Reed was raised in Tallahassee, Florida before attending College at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina on a Football Scholarship. Reed now lives in the San Jose area with his wife Lynn and their three children. In 1994 Reed bought R&B Company from Davis Water becoming its President. He has overseen the growth of the Company from one small location to ten distribution facilities in Northern California

Kurt Vincelette

Area Director - West Region

[email protected] 408.556.4455

Kurt was born and raised in Virginia Beach, VA. He attended the University of Virginia. Go Hoos! He now lives in San Jose with his wife & two children. He joined Ferguson Enterprises a month after college graduation and worked for them for 12 years. Kurt joined R&B in March 2006. He has been in various roles at R&B prior to becoming President: Operations Manager, Sales, District Manager and COO.

Tom Gribbin

District Manager - Northern California

[email protected] 408.556.4443

Tom was born and raised in San Jose Ca. He began his career in the waterworks industry with Edward S. Walsh Company in 1981. In 1987, he moved to McGuire & Juvet Inc. working in sales until the acquisition of the company by U.S. Filter In 1998. From 1998-2003 Tom was the Branch Manager for U.S. Filter Distribution Group/National waterworks. Tom joined R&B in May 2003 as the General Manager for the company, and Branch Manager of the San Jose location. Tom has served as the Vice President of R&B Co. since 2005.

Peggy Stockwell

Consultant

[email protected] 408.556.4444

Peggy was born in Norristown, PA and has lived in five other states: California, Illinois, Kentucky, Montana, and Washington. She currently resides in San Jose with her two children. After graduating from San Jose State University, she began her accounting career with Arthur Anderson. She then moved to Ireland, San Filippo & Co. where she became a California Certified Public Accountant and had R&B as a client. She started her own accounting/consulting firm in 1995 and kept R&B as a client until she joined R&B as the CFO in November 2002.

Kevin Chambers

Sales Manager

[email protected] 408.556.4440

Kevin was born and raised in the Fresno area. He and his wife have five children, three sons and two daughters. Kevin began his career in the waterworks industry with his father’s construction company, Haskell Construction, in 1983. In 1990, he moved to Hydro Conduit and got started in his sales career. He later went to work for National waterworks in 2003 as Outside Sales Representative. In 2010, Kevin accepted a position with Mueller Company as Territory Sales Representative for Central and part of Northern California. He joined R&B Company in February of 2012.

Richie Aliotti

Sales Manager

[email protected] 866.632.7473

Richie was born and raised in the bay area where he continues to live and work today. He started in the waterworks industry with P.E. O’Hair in 1989 which later became Westburne. He then moved to Kenko Utility Supply in 2002. He joined R&B in May of 2005.

Carolyn Barela

Human Resources

[email protected] 408.556.4441

Carolyn was born and raised in San Jose. After graduating from high school she began her Accounting experience working as a Bookkeeper. She worked with Kenko Utility Supply Inc. for 14 years, starting as a Bookkeeper and later promoted to Controller. She currently resides in Gilroy with her husband and their three children.

Wendy Bottomley

Controller

[email protected] 408.556.4464

Wendy is a San Jose native - raised in Los Gatos; currently living in San Jose. She started her accounting career in electrical construction, but living in Silicon Valley she moved to the Hi Tech industry. She worked for Infronetics Research for 18 years. She joined R&B Company in January 2018. Wendy enjoys hiking, yoga and spending time with family and friends.

Bryan Fitzwater

IT

[email protected] 408.556.4479

Bryan is a native Californian, born in Inglewood. He spent four years in the US Navy working in avionics, specializing in Electronics Counter Measures (ECM). While in the Navy he attended ship board UCSD courses in Business Law. After the Navy, he worked at Amdahl as an electronics technician, then manager. He left Amdahl in 1985 and founded Enable Networks that designed, implemented and maintained computer networks. Bryan takes pride in having computerized Silicon Valley Bank and consulted for other Bay Area companies including Intel, Sony, Xerox and others. R&B has been one of Bryan’s favorite clients for 20+ years. Due to the growth of R&B, it made sense for Bryan to come on board full time in 2016. Bryan can’t make up his mind about what his favorite hobby is: woodworking, piloting planes, riding motorcycles, driving hot rods or photography.

Dave Drake

Purchasing & Inventory Control Manager

[email protected] 408.556.4482

Dave was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He packed up and moved to San Jose, California in 1985. He started in the wholesale industry as a warehouse man working his way up to Branch Management for Kenko Utility Supply. He joined R&B San Jose Branch in May of 2009. He lives in San Jose with his wife and three children.

Esly Vasquez

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.556.4476

Esly was born and educated in Honduras. She moved to the US in 1983 to join her husband in San Jose where they raised their three children. She has a Degree in Accounting and Business Administration from UNAH. After coming to the US, she began working as a Bookkeeper and consulting for small businesses. She worked the last 15 years in AR and AP in the Ice Industry. She has over 30 years of accounting and administrative experience. Esly joined the R&B Company in December 2015.

Jessica Mendoza

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.556.4452

Jessica was born and raised in Tulare CA, she moved to Santa Clara in 2003. She has four kid’s two girls and two boys. She started with R&B Company in 2015.

Laura Carveiro

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.556.4462

Laura was born and raised in San Jose, CA. She currently resides in Hollister, CA with her husband and three boys. She has 8+ years of accounting and administrative experience, she began her career in the construction industry in 2015.

Liliana Luis

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.642.2344

Liliana was born in Tlaclula, which is located in Oaxaca, Mexico. When she was 2 years old, she moved to San Jose, CA. with her parents and has lived there ever since. She worked for Bank of America for 15 years in many different positions: Teller, Teller Operations Specialist, Relationship Banker and Relationship Manager. In 2018 she joined R&B as part of our Accounts Receivable team.

Linda Ruiz

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.556.4461

Linda lives and works within five miles of where she was born in San Jose. She and her husband have two children, a son and a daughter. She worked in the airline catering business for 17 years before changing to the electronics industry. Linda joined R&B in 2003.

Monica Gonzales

Accounts Receivable

[email protected] 408.556.4463

Monica was born and raised in San Jose & lives there with her husband and three sons. She has over 25 years of accounting and administrative experience. She worked for a Cisco Reseller for 10 years prior to coming to R&B. She joined R&B in 2014 and is currently working in Accounts Receivable.

Alin Villanueva

Accounts Payable

[email protected] 408.556.4451

Alin was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 1990, she moved to Santa Clara where she was raised and currently resides. She joined R&B in April 2010 at the San Jose branch.

Blair Minor

Accounts Payable

[email protected] 408.556.4454

Blair was born and raised in the Bay Area. She attended college at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Seville in Spain. Blair has degrees in both Spanish Literature and Political Science. After college, she moved back to the bay area and currently reside in Los Gatos with her two daughters.

Chirayu (Mickey) Patel

Accounts Payable

[email protected] 408.556.4448

Chirayu was born in India. He moved to the US in 2011 and has settled in the bay area with his wife. He has a Masters Degree in Accounting from Central Queensland University, Sydney, Australia. Chirayu joined R&B Company in 2013.

Shelley Anderson

Accounts Payable

[email protected] 408.556.4464

Shelley was born in Santa Clara, but grew up in the small town of Wheatland, CA. She began working in the beauty industry in 2007 as an esthetician/makeup artist. She still enjoys being a makeup artist on the weekends providing glamour, face painting and special effects looks. She joined U.S Pipe Fabrications in 2012 were she worked in customer service and inside sales for the past 6 years. She moved back to San Jose and joined the R&B family in March of 2018.

Trina Scott

Accounts Payable

[email protected] 408.556.4449

Trina was born and raised in Grass Valley. She graduated from San Jose State University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences along with an AA and an AS from West Valley College. She tenured as a lifeguard and swim instructor at a local tennis club in Saratoga for four years. She joined R&B in September 2006.

Lisa LaMaack

Administrative Assistant

[email protected] 408.556.4440

Lisa was born in Palm Springs & raised in Saratoga area where she graduated from Westmont High School. She and her husband of over 24 years have 2 children a son & daughter. She joined R&B Company in August 2012.

Meilissa Mendoza

Office Manager

[email protected] 408.396.1699

Melissa was born and raised in San Jose, CA where she currently resides with her two sons. She worked as a Retail Store Manager for 8 years and was a receptionist at DryBar for 2. Leaving the retail/hair world behind, she joined R&B in October 2018.

Ryan Dauernheim

IT Technician

[email protected] 408.556.4483

Ryan was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. He attended college at Lindenwood University where he played hockey and met fellow R&B colleague, Daniel Inouye. Ryan enjoy's working on cars, hunting, watching Mizzou football and playing golf. Ryan moved to San Jose July of 2019 and shortly after became a member of R&B.

Ismael "Izzy" Rivas

Inventory Control

[email protected] 408.556.4478

Izzy was born in Mexico City. At the age of ten, he moved to the U.S and was raised in San Jose, California. Izzy graduated from willow glen high school and began working in the restaurant industry. He decided to switch career paths and joined R&B in 2014 as a member of the San Jose warehouse crew. Shortly after he became a Class A driver and is now part of the inventory control department. Izzy lives with his wife and son.

Nate Scott

Inventory/Marketing

[email protected] 408.556.4474

Nate was born and raised in Nevada City Ca. After a 2-month stint on the Amazon, he found himself living in San Francisco where he finished studying Cultural Anthropology and Graphic Design. He did freelance design work for 4 and a half years working with a variety of companies building custom sites and designs. He currently lives in San Jose. He joined R&B in August 2015.

Fernando Valdez

Senior Warehouse Manager

[email protected] 209.640.3588

Fernando was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. in 1990. He lived in Sacramento where he completed high school. He joined R&B in March 2000 at the Redwood City branch as a warehouse stocker.

Jim Burgess

Sales

[email protected] 925.775.5868

Jim was born in Michigan but moved around a lot during his early years. He was in the Navy from 1970-1974, after which he started working at Groeniger & Company. In 1985 he moved to Kenko Utility Supply and in 2011 he moved to Ferguson Water Works. In November of 2018, Jim joined the R&B team at our Oakley branch. He has 2 daughters and 6 grandchildren, he is expecting his first great-grandson in July.

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