Submitted on February 5, 2026 at 11:23 am by Russ Richardson

Had a great discussion with Grant regarding his career path. Why he left inspire. He has the opportunity completely build the entire marketing fan engagement experience, including building the loyalty app from the ground up. He splitting time between Atlanta and North Carolina. There may be some opportunities to engage him to tie into our marketing ecosystem. I shared with him how we did an IOT deployment that was driven by starbucks marketing team trying to figure out how do they give more time back to customers to interact with staff instead of the staff doing manual tasks behind the kitchen.