Meet Our Staff
We love working together to bring you what you need for your kitchen at an affordable price. With our many different interests and talents, we make a great team! Meet a few of our members:
Product / Packing Wizard
Nate has worked with the company since it first began growing at an exponential rate. He oversees shipping and receiving, and his expertise in product knowledge is irreplaceable.
Marketing Specialist
Caleb
Caleb’s self-written bio: “I like gym”
Our re-write of Caleb’s vociferous statement:
Caleb is an appreciated member of the Kooi Housewares warehouse team. He willingly picks up tasks that otherwise fall through the cracks and ensures they are completed consistently. Picking and packing orders, receiving inventory, and working through bulk orders with ease, you don’t find Caleb complaining.
Caleb is a skilled chef of the two major food groups: chicken and rice. Caleb’s passions are fitness, weightlifting, and video editing. With a dry sense of humor and a toleration of all our shenanigans, Caleb wins the award for the ability to make it through the workday with the least words possible.
"I didn't learn how to cook until I was an adult, and now I love making new recipes all the time with my husband. Projects like fermenting your own sauerkraut, canning blueberry jam, and baking bread in cast iron are easier than you think - you can do it, too! My favorite part of Kooi Housewares is hearing customers' stories of the memories they've made while cooking with their families."
Anna
Operations Manager
Anna shows up to work on a regular basis because she enjoys talking to full-size humans. While parenting is rewarding, building relationships with customers and suppliers is also fulfilling. Being the operations manager means she dons many hats throughout the day (although not the wok Josiah is wearing below).
Josiah
Owner / BOSS
Josiah's favorite thing is coming to work every day.... whether it's for the job he (must) enjoy, or for the occasional donuts that show up, we aren't sure! For bosses, he's pretty OK, as long as he hasn't been thinking too deeply about new business ventures he's decided to launch....
Josiah started this business because he has trouble taking orders from others, but he has found that herding the employees he dryly refers to as squirrels isn't that much of an improvement.
Occasionally, Josiah allows others to write his self-biography, and this is what happens.