Who are Tom and Steve?
Tom Handwerker has experience in both retail
management and café management locally
and regionally. He is known in the local
downtown community for his management,
café, and computer expertise, as well as his
integrity. He managed Frederick Coffee
Company for its 2 most profitable years, as
well as cafés in both Borders and Barnes &
Noble. He worked with Illusions Game Store in
Salisbury MD for 4 years during his college
career, and has kept his finger on the pulse of
local gaming community through in-store
events he ran at the Frederick Coffee
Company, in home events he has run over the
last 3 years, and visits to hobby gaming stores
all over the tri-state area. He is an apprentice
blacksmith and is active in the SCA, a
medieval re-enactment group
Steve Martin spent several of his earlier years
learning the ins-and-outs of working in a café
environment. Since graduating college he has
worked to perfect his marketing abilities in a
succession of increasingly challenging
marketing management positions culminating
in a 650% increase in sales over 8 months at
Dublin Roasters Coffee, the last business with
which he was involved. He has been an
apprentice leatherworker, an avid gamer for
most of his life on both sides of the table and
is also an active member of the medieval
reenactment group the SCA, where he can
usually be found learning or teaching in the
period games pavilion.
