Corporate Services Account Manager

Kara recently moved from New York City to her home state of Oklahoma to join Blusource. Her professional background is in college publishing sales and marketing as well as HR for a leading financial firm, event planning and fundraising for JDRF and Girls Quest. She graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1999 with a BA in English Literature and has done graduate work in English with hopes of completion someday.

Kara believes in living large and true. She values all peoples of the world, diversity, creativity and authenticity. When not working, she enjoys traveling, long meals with friends, being near water at the lake or by sea, running outside, picnics, painting and live music.

Director of Product Enhancement

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bezawit is currently in college completing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. She joined the Blusource team in 2004, shortly after moving to Oklahoma within the same year.

Her favorite past times are, spending time with family and friends, watching movies/documentaries, playing scrabble, solving jig-saw puzzles, and traveling.

“The people I work with, the job that we do, the difference we are making in peoples lives, and definitely the satisfaction that I get at the end of the day - just a few of the things I enjoy about Blusource”

Director of Warehouse and Logistics

Dustin was born in Oklahoma City and attended Putnam City North High School. Dustin joined Blusource in April of 2002. Prior to that, he was employed by Bancfirst of Oklahoma City.

Dustin enjoys traveling with his wife and son and spending time with close friends. He also enjoys movies, Oklahoma State University athletics and the Green Bay Packers.

“I love knowing that I get to come to work and make a difference in someone else’s life. We get to stand in the gap and provide a multitude of potentially life changing goods for those that can’t. It can be a single toothbrush or a truck load of textbooks, yet each item is important to the end recipient. Not every job can offer that kind of fulfillment.”

Vice President, Donor & Client Services

Amy joined Blusource in 2004 to work as a liaison between Blusource and the nonprofit community. With six years of prior nonprofit experience for organizations such as the YWCA (Social Service Specialist) and Presbyterian Children’s Home & Services (Family Teacher), she felt uniquely prepared to make a difference in her role with Blusource.

Today, Amy is the Vice President of Corporate and Client Services and is tasked with dual challenges – to communicate to potential donors the distinct value and convenience of giving through Blusource, and to share with nonprofit organizations the practical benefits of customizable recipience.

Amy is a 2000 graduate of Southwestern A/G University with a Bachelor’s degree. She is an avid traveler and has journeyed to 16 countries around the world including Iraq, Russia, Mexico, and much of Europe. “I enjoy traveling, but I’m more passionate about why I travel…people. My trips to Iraq, Russia and Mexico were opportunities to partner with NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in the area, often the most vocal advocates of human rights and social programs. I also enjoy meeting people from other cultures and learning about their customs and way of life.”

When she’s not working or traveling the globe, Amy indulges with gardening or letting Lucy, her French bulldog, take her for a walk. She also loves spending time with friends and family, cooking and entertaining, and playing games like Taboo, Shoot the Moon, and Hand ‘n Foot.

Vice President, Corporate Integration

Ryan resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in a suburb named the Village (the greatest place in all the metro!). Upon graduating with a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, he moved to Istanbul, Turkey to work for an education company named Global. In his three years there he helped to begin and develop several businesses both in and outside the Global corporation. Upon returning to the States he began pursuing a masters degree in Intercultural Communications while working for Bank of America’s Loan Servicing Center in Brea, California. Believing that successful businesses are ones that create good change in the world, Ryan came on board with Blusource in April of 2005 to join with others in that belief.

Spending lots of time with his wife, Adriane, his children Graham & Abbi Jay, playing & creating music, reading, traveling, fly-fishing, experiencing life in a God loving community, and supporting the Green Bay Packers are some of the things you will find Ryan doing.

“This place is fun! The Blusource family is one that anyone would want to be a part of. We all like what we do. We know that our work and our time is creating good change in this world and that change continues to inspire us”

President, C.O.O.

Brad lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with his wife Bethany and three kids, Jack, Anna and Kate.  He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BBA in Management Information Systems. After college he went to work for the Hertz Corporation where he spent most of his time trying to figure out how to dismantle the Y2K bug. After Hertz, he spent a little more than 3 years at BMK, Inc., a national general merchandise distributor as a Systems Analyst. In 2002 he joined Blusource as the Director of Procurement and Marketing. What a switch!! He has greatly enjoyed his experience at Blusource and his responsibilities have grown each year. As the C.O.O., he is putting his process-oriented mind to use as he leads the daily operations of the company.

Brad mostly enjoys spending large quantities of high quality time with his wife and children, throwing the football and playing golf with his 6 year old son, and any of the following other activities: fly-fishing, playing guitar, writing and recording songs, working out Crossfit style, leading worship at his church, working on his old house, and traveling whenever and wherever possible with his wife, Bethany.

“I enjoy serving a company that is truly focused on improving the lives of people – from our employees to our non-profit partners and the people they serve.”

CEO

Steve worked for 17 years in middle management positions for General Electric and Westinghouse selling, designing and negotiating national and international projects of high voltage distribution switchgear and supporting materials. His clients included Construction Contractors, Public Utilities, State and Federal Government Contractors and OEM accounts such as General Motors, ARCO, Mobil and York.

Feeling a desire to serve those less fortunate, Steve left his position with Westinghouse in April 1990 and began working with non-profit relief and development agencies in the area of gifts-in-kind procurement and logistics. Seeing a need to streamline these processes for both the non-profit and the corporation as well as recognizing inefficiencies in the existing system, Steve went to work with Blusource (IDS at that time) in August 1992 when Blusource was only 3 months old.

He has successfully positioned Blusource at the front of intermediary gifts-in-kind agencies by providing more services to both the non-profit organization and the corporate donor while also providing considerable savings to the non-profit community.

Steve lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with his wife of 33 years, Gwen, and their 15 year old daughter, Lauren. He enjoys all outdoor activities and traveling with his family.