° º ° Meet the Team º ° º
Brenda Speirs is the Queen Bee at Buzztag, a boutique corporate gift and brand merchandising agency with big-firm capabilities. Most days you’ll find her searching tirelessly for standout promotional products that tell her clients’ brand stories.
With experience in management, business development and marketing, Brenda understands what it takes to make people feel good about your brand. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company looking to shake things up or a one-person shop trying to make a dent in the universe, Brenda provides creative solutions and promotional marketing strategies that will leave your audience saying, “I love this.”
A perennial optimist, Brenda sees the world as a place where greatness is always possible and life, like good food, is to be thoroughly enjoyed. She looks forward to connecting with you.
With experience in management, business development and marketing, Brenda understands what it takes to make people feel good about your brand. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company looking to shake things up or a one-person shop trying to make a dent in the universe, Brenda provides creative solutions and promotional marketing strategies that will leave your audience saying, “I love this.”
A perennial optimist, Brenda sees the world as a place where greatness is always possible and life, like good food, is to be thoroughly enjoyed. She looks forward to connecting with you.
As a senior account manager, Lorraine takes branding wizardry to the next level. Want creative ideas for your next promotion? Lorraine’s on it. Need to change a few things about your current order? Just ask Lorraine. Basically, she makes things happen (because “streamlining the swag process so you can get back to being awesome” is too many words to cram on a business card).
Lorraine and adventure go together like Mac and Cheese. Her past work experience involved flying helicopters, designing clothing and crafting frosting-laden confections, showing that it’s possible to carpe the heck out of every diem. Lorraine’s first love is exploring the outdoors, and if it’s on her motorcycle, even better. Her two quirky pet rabbits, Bailey and Morgan, think she’s the bee’s knees.
Taygan is Buzztag’s behind-the-scenes superstar who assists in fulfilling swag orders, tracking production and helping the team anywhere and everywhere. She sends your branded swag out into the world with a heaping dose of good vibes and a heartfelt “bon voyage!”
The analytical and imaginative sides of Taygan’s brain thrive in Buzztag’s creative hustle and passionate bustle. With recent career adventures in the museum world, she understands the value of creating experiences people will love.
When she’s not working toward her Master’s degree in Museum Studies, you’ll find Taygan practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and hanging out with her family: Connor the cat, Monty the dog, and Jud the man.
The analytical and imaginative sides of Taygan’s brain thrive in Buzztag’s creative hustle and passionate bustle. With recent career adventures in the museum world, she understands the value of creating experiences people will love.
When she’s not working toward her Master’s degree in Museum Studies, you’ll find Taygan practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and hanging out with her family: Connor the cat, Monty the dog, and Jud the man.
Big brains make the world go round, especially when it comes to ensuring that everything adds up at the end of the day. Enter Kris. She handles all of the finances at Buzztag. With over 24 years of experience helping both large corporations and small businesses stay balanced, Kris keeps our world spinning. From Accounts Payable to Accounts Receivable—and everything in between—our customers know they can rely on her obsessive accuracy and passion for making people happy. A whirlwind on the keyboard, her fingers fly fast and true.
In addition to living life in the math lane, Kris loves indulging the right side of her brain with quilting and crafting. And if you want to get on Kris’s sweet side, pass her a bottle of maple syrup. She loves pouring it over cooked spinach.
In addition to living life in the math lane, Kris loves indulging the right side of her brain with quilting and crafting. And if you want to get on Kris’s sweet side, pass her a bottle of maple syrup. She loves pouring it over cooked spinach.
Ariana is Buzztag’s Marketing Director and experience maximizer. She handles all things social media and dreams up ways to delight people every single day. Obsessed with making it personal, she loves good content and its power to connect humans to other humans.
With a degree in journalism and prior experience as a television news reporter, Ariana thrives on finding and creating stories that inspire. (Just call her the Story Whisperer.) Ariana also has an affinity for song lyrics. If remembering the words to thousands of songs was a superpower, she’d save the world and still have time to whip up an Instagram post.
When she’s not scribbling up a storm or burying her nose in a good book, Ariana enjoys exploring the beauty of Central Oregon with her husband, A.J., and curious fur baby, Mollie.
Lola is Buzztag royalty--all 15 pounds of her. She greets everyone with a slobbery kiss, out of hopes that she'll receive a treat in return. Lola may be the sassiest Boston, but she also has the biggest heart. When she's not pitter pattering around Buzztag, she's out adventuring with her humans... or sleeping.