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Interview
Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t look at failure as the end point—look at it as a learning point.
About Marvin
- I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- My family all attended an HBCU, so I grew up around that culture—I chose to go to North Carolina A&T State University because I got a full scholarship to their accounting program.
- Upon graduating, I got a job at Deloitte & Touche as a senior accountant.
- After a few years at Deloitte & Touche, I joined Coca-Cola as a principal auditor.
- I spent some time in finance for Coca-Cola before transitioning into sales—a colleague had observed that I had a good personality for sales and I really took that to heart.
- I’ve spent the last 27 years working for Coca-Cola and making my way up through different positions to my current role now as vice president of national sales for the Aramark account team.