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Team of Drawback Experts
Our firm is simply extraordinary because of our staff.
We employ several individuals who can boast of having between 15 to 20 years experience apiece.
N.F. Stroth & Associates is a member of the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America NCBFAA and Neill is a member of that group's Drawback Committee. Neill also represents our firm with the Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON) and the Northern California Brokers Association (CBFANC).
N.F. Stroth & Associates is proud to introduce our team; we boast over 65 years of combined experience in Drawback as well as having staff members fluent in Spanish, French, Polish, Russian, Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Tagalog.
The Company has offices located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago with licensed Customhouse Brokers in every office and the N.F. Stroth staff has over 110 years of combined experience.
- Neill F. Stroth - President
- Neill attended the University of San Francisco. A licensed Customs Broker, Neill started his career with Fritz and Companies in 1971. Neill gained his knowledge of drawback acting as manager and national director of drawback for Fritz. In 1994 he opened N.F. Stroth & Associates, LLC specializing in drawback; this year N.F. Stroth & Associates celebrated its 15th anniversary.
- Sarah Stroth - Vice President of Sales and Business Development
- Sarah attended Dominican University in San Rafael, California. Sarah a licensed Customs Broker with 15 years of drawback experience; she runs the Los Angeles and Chicago offices for Stroth as well as being responsible for developing new business for the firm.
- Joe Lawhun - Director of Drawback Compliance
- Joe attended the University of California at Berkley. Joe started his career in the transportation industry in 1979 with Fritz Companies in Drawback. He joined N.F. Stroth in 1996 as a Senior Drawback Specialist; Joe has been instrumental in developing N.F. Stroth’s informational systems and providing operational support through out the Company.
- Villfredy Alvarenga - Senior Drawback Analyst
- Villfredy attended Healds Business College in San Francisco and started his drawback career with N.F. Stroth 11 years ago. Villfredy specializes in border drawback transactions, Same Condition claims that include Canada and Mexico. Villfredy loves the challenge of securing the proper export documentation for client’s historical drawback filings.
- Husheng Zhu - Senior Drawback Analyst
- Husheng attended the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Husheng joined the N.F. Stroth Los Angeles office bringing over 14 years of drawback experience; her knowledge of various issues related to U.S. Customs regulations and classification has been an asset as well as her love for the problem solving aspect of drawback.
- Renee Predki - Drawback Specialist
- Renee attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. As a licensed Customs Broker, Renee’s worked as a Drawback Account Executive for Fritz & Companies, Phoenix International and Schenker International previously before joining N.F. Stroth in 2001 in the Chicago office.
- Meredith Lundberg - Drawback Specialist
- Meredith attended the University of Winnipeg in Canada and moved to Los Angeles in 2004. Meredith has worked in N.F. Stroth’s Los Angeles office since 2005. Meredith handles all the One Time Drawback Entries and Destructions for Stroth’s clients through out the United States.
- Amir Ghoreichi - Drawback Account Representative
- Amir attended University of California at Irvine and joined the N.F. Stroth San Francisco office in January of 2008. Amir’s favorite part of drawback is the singularity of each client’s product and methods of Import and Export that makes the process of duty recovery challenging; fun, and rewarding.
- Shannon Herbert - Processing Section Supervisor
- Shannon attended Penn State University, moved to San Francisco in 2002. Previously she has worked closely with Physical/Design Engineers which she has found it to be invaluable in the duty drawback business. Shannon joined the N.F. Stroth San Francisco drawback team in February of 2009.
- Virginia Sta. Maria-Vera - Senior Processing Specialist
- Virginia attended Centro Escolar University in the Philippines for undergraduate and San Francisco State University for her Masters degree in Psychology. Virginia joined N.F. Stroth after a 33 year career in the insurance industry. Virginia is Stroth’s resident expert when it comes to processing import and export documentation for the actual claim processing aspect of drawback.
- Anna Mandrik - Processing Specialist
- Anna attended Healds Business College in San Francisco. Before joining Stroth, Anna has extensive customer service experience as well as an excellent working knowledge of the steamship line industry.
- Keith Mieczkowski - Drawback Specialist
- Keith joined the Drawback team at NF Stroth & Associates in February 2010, which makes him the newest addition to the company. He attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate degree (BS) and completed his MBA at the University of Phoenix in 2008. Keith thrives on the detail-oriented nature of the Drawback profession. He aims to be a major contributor to the continued success of NF Stroth and Associates.
We would also like to recognize our business partners that help support N.F. Stroth & Associates, LLC so we can do what we do best; Drawback!
- Human Resource Consultant
- JoAnne O'Neil
One Solution Human Resources
1536 W 25th Street #434
San Pedro, CA 90732
Phone: 310-514-0546
Website:www.1solutionhr.com
Email: joanne@1solutionhr - Attorney
- Dennis M. Sullivan
Law Offices of Dennis M. Sullivan
601 California Street, 16th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: 415-982-5454
Fax: 415-982-1732
Website:www.dmsullivanlaw.com
Email: sullivan601@msn.com - Accountant
- Rich Gunn
Partner
Burr Pilger Mayer
600 California Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: 415-288-6218
Fax: 415-415-288-6288
Website:www.bpmllp.com
Email: rgunn@bpmllp.com
