Partner Bios

Gary Pomponio, Founding Partner

Gary has been part of the foodservice industry for 30+ years. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, he has gone on to own thriving restaurants on both the east and west coasts. Their range of specialization includes Classic Regional Italian, Pacific Rim, Sonoma County Wine Country Cuisine, and Exotic Wild Game. The wine lists in all his restaurants have won the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence year after year.

Besides being a chef, Gary consults on all aspects of foodservice, including concept development, employee training programs, facilities master planning, workflow analysis, employee and customer retention, back and front of the house efficiency, food safety, and teamwork relationships.

Jeff Tarran, Founding Partner

Jeff is a graduate of Syracuse University and has an MBA from Columbia University in New York. Jeff is also President of Wayfinder Response Marketing, an award-winning integrated direct response marketing agency.

Jeff has over 20 years of experience in advertising, sales promotion and direct response database marketing. His company’s mission is to develop marketing communications to get prospects and customers to take action. His clients include a mix of financial and high tech marketers including Wells Fargo Bank, AAA, Charles Schwab, United HealthCare and others. Jeff has also been an American Advertising Association speaker on response marketing topics.

Susan Morse, Partner

Susan has worked in the restaurant/hospitality industry for over 20 years before joining Full Table Marketing. She has experience in virtually all aspects of the business. She has held senior management positions in both independent and chain restaurants, including as General Manager to Margaritaville Restaurant in San Francisco for five years.

In 1996, Susan became manager at Gary Pomponio’s wine country restaurant where the Full Table Birthday Invitation Program was already in place. There, she experienced the benefits of the program first-hand.

Susan joined Full Table Marketing in 2004 to head up the company’s marketing efforts and was made a partner in March of 2006.