Ellie founded Promotional Source in 1997 and has been in the promotional products business since 1988. She spent nearly 10 years working for a leader in the industry in sales before starting her own business. She initially started school majoring in Hotel and Restaurant Management but switched gears when she realized a career in that industry would mean relocating to various parts of the country. Ellie received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a Marketing Management Major from Cal Poly Pomona in 1987. Prior to that, Ellie spent a number of years in the hotel and restaurant industry primarily working for Hyatt & Marriott Hotels as well as a number of independently owned restaurants. Even after 23 years in this industry Ellie is still excited about providing great ideas and gets great satisfaction from serving happy clients.

It has been the greatest joy in life for Ellie to finally become a mother to daughter Violet in 2009. Family time with Steve and beautiful toddler Violet is most important. Ellie loves the role of Mommy and enjoys experiencing all of the “firsts”

She especially enjoys local and long distance travel, restaurants, concerts, boating, racquetball, the outdoors; walking around the area, animals and all facets of the Arts. Ellie's hobbies include taking photos, making photo albums, home decorating, fashion, antique buttons, the stock market and a small jewelry business. She was an Air Force Brat in her early years and spent time living in Japan and Taiwan and has lived in Long Beach since 1976.

Natalie joins Promotional Source with over three years of experience in the Promotional Products business and boundless enthusiasm. She truly loves the industry, thrives on using her creativity to recommend the right products for her customers, and takes pride in seeing the finished results. Natalie has found her niche. Her natural energy, spirit and humor is a perfect match for this business, so it is easy for her to love her job.

Natalie is a California native and was born and raised in Santa Barbara. She has lived in several places along the coast and finally settled in Long Beach in 2007. Natalie is a foster "parent" for Kitten Rescue (www.kittenrescue.org), the largest no-kill animal rescue group in Los Angeles. She has appeared on TV and Internet Webcasts discussing the joys of being a kitty foster mom. She also teaches other volunteers and Los Angeles City Animal Control employees about caring for abandoned neo-natal, bottle-fed kittens.

In addition to the foster kitties who come and go, Natalie shares her home with two rescued dogs (Ralphie, a Pointer and Ari, a one-eyed German Shepherd) and two cats (Tyler, a Chocolate-Point Siamese and Bigsby, an orange tabby). And as an animal lover, Natalie is also a strict vegetarian who enjoys trying out new and exciting ethnic cuisine. In her spare time, Natalie enjoys all types of performing arts, especially musical theatre.

Justine grew up a stone's throw from Promotional Source in Belmont Heights, CA. She comes from a family of unique and charismatic individuals who share liberal ideals and a collective thirst for mischief and adventure. As the youngest of 8, she was exposed to a household filled to the brim with raucous political debate, parents or siblings coming or going on exotic world travels and athletic trophies and medals piled high to the rafters. Mom owned a health food store and Dad was a true renaissance man, with a wide range of hobbies and interests. When it comes to staying active and healthy, Justine has big footstep to follow...both her parents were running marathons well into their 80's.

When it came time for college, Justine knew that, in addition to going to a good school, she wanted to stay close to the beach. The obvious choice was Long Beach State. While attending CSULB, she was able to keep her really cool job as a barista at Polly's Gourmet Coffee. In those days, there wasn’t a Starbucks anywhere, so if you wanted a good cup, Polly's was the place to go.

After graduating CSULB with a degree in Liberal Studies, Justine worked in a number of capacities for various small marketing firms and even spent time in the marketing department of a giant health insurance company. After that, she decided to take on a new, full time challenge...staying home and raising three kids. Justine enjoys time spent at the beach and the great outdoors with husband Mark, who she has been together with for more than 20 years. Now that the boys are getting a bit older, Justine reentered the workplace a year ago with Promotional Source. She enjoys the challenges this industry offers.

Steve joined Promotional Source in 2001. He handles administrative operations and accounting for the company. He also works all of the outdoor special events and in-house fulfillment projects. Steve brings a lot of experience to the company as he has been in sales and retail management for over 20 years.

Steve lives in Long Beach, CA near the marina and enjoys being outdoors golfing, hiking, and boating. He also works in sales part time as an outside rep for an Italian foods distributor in the restaurant industry, so I guess you could say he’s a bit of a foodie. His number one interest in life is family time spent with daughter Violet and the love of his life, Ellie Rappaport. Being a dad is everything he dreamed of and more. Steve also enjoys dining out and trying new and interesting foods. Some of Steve’s other interests include traveling, art of all types, going to open-air farmers markets, wine tasting and driving on scenic roads.

Steve grew up in West Covina, CA. He has been involved in many organized sports, such as baseball, football and golf. Steve has a big interest in wines, where his goal is to retire young, buy some ridgeline property near the Russian River up in the wine country and start a vineyard of his own with his family.

Phyllis has been in the Promotional Products business for 16 years. Prior to this industry, she was a Commercial Real Estate Agent with Grubb and Ellis selling investment properties. Her career started years ago with Hilton Hotels in the Sales Department as an assistant and worked up to Director of Sales in a 1300 room convention hotel.  Phyllis is a native 'Angelino' and has lived in California all her life. She especially enjoys travel and quality time with her love Chuck.