Executive Staff Bios
Contacts
Staff
- John P. Kehoe - Founder and President
- Dina Fanelli - Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Trinity Direct
- Alicia Abels - Vice President List Brokerage Division
- Bob Stein - Vice President, List Management
- Darrell Mell - Vice President of Business Development
- Katherine Benazet - Vice President, List Brokerage Division
- Pete Brent - Director of Computer Services
- Sean Kehoe - Vice President, Sales and Marketing
- Tom Fossati - Vice President Sales
John P. Kehoe - Founder and President
John Kehoe is the founder and owner of Trinity Direct having formed the company in April of 1997. Previous to that, Mr. Kehoe served as Director of Brokerage and List Management for Database America. Prior to that, John was Vice President of the fundraising division at the Walter Karl Companies. He has over 30 years experience working for nonprofits that include the Food for the Poor, Dominican Sisters of Hope and Archdiocese for The Military Services. He has been a featured guest speaker at many fundraising and marketing conferences including the Direct Marketing Association, National Catholic Development Conference (NCDC), and the Association of Fund Raising Professionals (AFP), both international and regional. He has been an honored lecturer at New York University, Kean College and Seton Hall University.
John works closely with the entire staff ensuring that list selection complements the client's package and are on target to yield the most responsive results. He guides the management process to protect the client's needs and oversees the eservices initiatives, optimizing the success of any given mailing.
John's successful approach to the multi-channel approach to list acquisition and retention lie within client relationships. He puts their needs at the forefront on any initiative they undertake, taking the role of mentor, advisor, marketing partner or anything they need, to ensure that their goals can be realized and achieved. John honestly feels that the success of Trinity Direct's clients translates to the success of Trinity Direct.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 220
email:johnk@trinitydirect.net
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Dina Fanelli - Co-Founder and Senior Vice President
Prior to founding Trinity Direct, Dina was a Senior Account Executive at Database America Companies. She has over 20 years of experience in the direct mail industry and has been a guest speaker at many trade shows and marketing conferences, including the National Catholic Development Conference and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Dina's knowledge of the list market is extensive. Her specialty is in niche markets such as zoos, libraries, and animal welfare agencies. Ms. Fanelli also has an impressive background in Hispanic marketing as well.
She is currently working to bring innovative techniques and tools such as email marketing, modeling, profiling and segmentation into the non-profit arena, and to her clients such as Oblate Missions, Salvation Army and Rescue Missions.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 205
email:dinaf@trinitydirect.net
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Alicia Abels - Vice President List Brokerage Division
Alicia has been a valued team member of Trinity Direct since 1999. She has since become Trinity's List Acquisition Specialist, working on client services, including results analysis and targeted list selection. She has been entrusted with many of Trinity's esteemed clients who rely on her expertise. Alicia's strong knowledge and understanding of the non-profit market ranges from faith-based organizations, such as Aid to the Church in Need and Catholic Charities, to childrens welfare and social service organizations, such as Childrens Miracle Network, American Humane and over twenty regional blind associations and hospitals. Through Alicia's guidance, her clients' acquisition programs have prospered and generated more profitable results. Alicia participates in many industry events, such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals Fund Raising Day in New York and the National Catholic Development Conference.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 207
email:aliciaa@trinitydirect.net
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Bob Stein - Vice President, List Management
Bob has 23 years of experience in the Direct Marketing industry, having recently joined Trinity Direct as Vice President of List Management. Prior to joining Trinity, Bob worked for several catalog and publishing oriented list firms. Bob was instrumental in starting up a fundraising division at MOKRYNSKIdirect, 5 years ago, and was successful in introducing out of category usage to their lists, directly increasing his fundraising and consumer files bottom line profits. Bob has written several articles for DM News and has spoken at the Annual Catalog Conference and DMA Annual Fall Conference and Exhibition.
Bobs dedication, relationships, aggressive sales efforts and expertise will be a valuable asset to Trinity Direct and their clients.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 225
email:bobs@trinitydirect.net
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Darrell Mell - Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Mell began his career with AT&T where he managed marketing to the non-profit sector and became the subject matter expert on broadcast fundraising and telemarketing. He then formed TeleSystems, a direct marketing and telemarketing agency servicing the non-profit and communications market. Subsequently, he became Vice President of telemarketing at Covenant House where he successfully integrated telemarketing with an aggressive direct mail program. He created the first direct TV spots for the charity as well as numerous interactive programs designed to enhance donor communications. Darrell is the author of a number articles and publications on telemarketing and direct mail.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 225
email:darrellm@trinitydirect.net
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Katherine Benazet - Vice President, List Brokerage Division
Katherine Benazet is a list brokerage veteran of over 15 years, having spent her last 6 years at Trinity Direct. Her extensive knowledge of direct mail has contributed to the highly successful servicing of her non-profit clients. Presently working with many diverse non profits, including Catholic Bishops of Northern Alaska, KNOM Radio, Dominican Sisters of Hope, Food for the Poor and Legionaries of Christ, Katherine effectively contributes to the addition of new donors, retaining existing donors and maximizing the long-term value of these donors. She focuses on comprehensive list research and response analysis, as well as merge purge strategies to optimize the high level of service provided.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 210
email:katherineb@trinitydirect.net
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Pete Brent - Director of Computer Services
Pete Brent has been with Trinity Information Systems since its founding. He is responsible for all development and the running of Direct Marketing software used by Trinity Direct on a daily basis. Pete began his career with Database America Companies which has recently evolved into The InfoGroup. He has 15 years of experience in direct marketing computer services, most of which has been with Trinity Direct. His programming background includes such languages as COBOL and Assembler. His responsibilities include all aspects of client services, ranging from file conversion to merge purges. Ultimately, he became the supervisor for the computer production group, servicing a large number of Trinity Directs accounts. Some of the clients currently being serviced by Pete include Passionists Missions, Archdiocese of Military Services, The Salvation Army and various Animal Rescue Missions. Among his accomplishments at Trinity Direct include the development and implementation of a number of customized programs specifically designed for the Direct Mail Community.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 213
email:peteb@trinitydirect.net
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Sean Kehoe - Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Sean Kehoe has been with Trinity Direct for over 2 years, heading up all corporate sales. In his new position, Sean will continue to service and expand Trinity Directs brokerage, management and data processing family of clients. He has been instrumental in the start-up of Trinity Directs email division and will add a new dimension of service and marketing strategy to both existing clients and future prospects. He will help clients fully recognize their potential needs and make sure that their targeted results are achieved by recommending all services and strategies provided by Trinity Direct.
phone: (973) 283-3600 ext. 206
email:seank@trinitydirect.net
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Tom Fossati - Vice President Sales
Tom Fossati, a 25 year veteran of direct mail has joined Trinity Direct to the position of Vice President, Corporate Sales. He will be responsible for all sales and development of Trinity Directs stable of products in all its divisions: List Management, List Brokerage, Email Marketing and Trinity Information Services, including Merge Purge, list fulfillment, standardization, NCOA and more.
Tom began his career with Clark- ONeill, Inc. Most recently, he has been a partner and owner at List Information Service Technology, Inc.
Toms function will help stimulate the companys planned growth and continued priority towards superior service to our valued clients.
phone: (973) 283-3600
email:tomf@trinitydirect.net
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List Brokerage
Dina Fanelli, Senior Vice President,
Co-Founder
dinaf@trinitydirect.net
Alicia Abels, Vice President
aliciaa@trinitydirect.net
Katherine Benazet, Vice President
katherineb@trinitydirect.net
Nora Hoehn, Brokerage Assistant
norah@trintiydirect.net
Joe Kinney, Brokerage Assistant
joek@trinitydirect.net
Manny Ortiz, Brokerage Assistant
mannyo@trinitydirect.net
List Management
Bob Stein, Vice Presidentt
bobs@trinitydirect.net
Joy Jacobs, Director of Account Management
joyj@trinitydirect.net
Rosanne Simmons, Account Manager
rosannes@trinitydirect.net
E-Services
Bill Carverbillc@trinitydirect.net
Sales / Business Development
Sean Kehoe, Vice President, Sales
And Email Marketing
seank@trinitydirect.net
Tom Fossati, Vice President Sales
tomf@trinitydirect.net
Darrell Mell, Vice President, Business Development
darrellm@trinitydirect.net
Information Computer Services
Pete Brent, Director of Computer Services
peteb@trinitydirect.net
Garfield Vassell, Assistant Director of Computer Services
garfieldv@trinitydirect.net
Juan Rios, Computer Services Operator
juanr@trintiydirect.net
Michele Sorochinski, List Fulfillment Technician
micheles@trinitydirect.net
Accounting / Operations
Marcia Robinson, Accounting Manager
marciar@trinitydirect.net
Tracey Birchenough, Office Coordinator
traceyb@trinitydirect.net