About Us

Here at BellsOnBears we pride ourselves in being able to maintain a healthy work/play relationship. As you might have guessed, it's easy to get caught up in work when it's as impactful as ours is. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that it's ok to take a break from saving the planet to take some me time. To stop us from working 24/7, we have a strict "no more than 10 bear bellings per week" rule.

While most people would consider us to be heroes, we don't see ourselves that way. Humility is critical in this profession since a cocky beller is a dead beller. Instead, we like to think of ourselves as regular, intelligent, insanely handsome guys. We wanted to give you the chance to get to know what we stand for here at BellsOnBears, and to learn a little more about the team.

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Our Values

Values are incredibly important to us. Without them, we would skin each other alive. Here are some rules that serve as the backbone to our org: 

  • Belling these damn bears is the number one priority
  • Do what needs to be done, at all costs
  • No vacation days except for major U.S. holidays
  • Whoever can yell the loudest wins the argument
  • No bears in the office

Meet Our Team

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Branden Rodgers

CMO / Primary Bell Enthusiast

Branden oversees our marketing department with an iron fist of raw emotion. With issues of this caliber, it's critical that we get the right message out to as many people as possible. It's a bear eat bell world out there and we need boys like Branden at the reigns. He's also really good at bells. Currently, he knows about over 200 types of bells, and that number is speculated to rise.

As he says in his most recent book, "I bring the fire."

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Brian Cox

Co-founder/Lead Bellbearologist

Brian, a well known expert in the bells and bears community, has devoted his life to eliminating the incredible threat and danger of un-belled bears. He brings his unrelenting passion and paranoia to the BellsOnBears (Bob) team. As Lead Bellbearologist, Brian is responsible for driving innovation and pushing the limits of bear bell technology.

In his own words, "Bells save lives. Simple as that. Bears are everywhere and if they aren't mauling, they are plotting to maul. So what can you do when you see a bear? Nothing. Bears can run up to 30 mph - if you can see a bear it's already too late. Your only chance of survival is if that bear is belled by our BoB specialists. With our patented reinforced bell design and pitch optimization, you'll hear the bear coming with enough time to seek shelter. Guaranteed."

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Mark Millstein

Head Email Guy

When Mark first approached us about a position at Bells on Bears, we took one look at his resumé and told him to get out. Between his total lack of work experience and marketable skills, he clearly had nothing of value to add to our company. 

A week later, he approached us again, this time with a revolutionary new idea: electronic mail (or e-mail for short). We had previously heard of this up-and-coming technology, but we never had the resources to investigate how it may benefit us. Mark explained how we could use e-mail to reduce the time we spent hand writing letters and licking stamps by up to 90%. Suffice it to say, we were sold. We brought Mark on, set him up with the company email address, and never looked back.

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Raymond O'Connor

Bellbearologist Intern/Temporary CEO, CFO, and CTO

Ray came to BoB as a bright eyed and bushy tailed Bellbearologist intern seeking the tutalidge of world renoun Bellbearologist, and Co-Founder Brian Cox. Here at Bells On Bears we pride ourselves on the autonomy and opportunity we offer to interns seeking insight into the dangerous and fast paced world of belling bears. True to BoB form, we quickly realized the untapped potential of this underqualified bellbearologist prodogy and offered him a chance at some higher responsibility rolls. Ray is now acting CEO, CFO, and CTO until we can recruit a recruiting manager to recruit seasoned veterans in these rolls (preferably with experience in both the Bell and Bear industries). 

Ray has brought new life into the office with a variety of hilarious jokes. He often breaks down into tears and pretends to ask for help saying things like "I have no idea what I'm doing" or a personal favorite "We ran out of funding months ago, the company is going under." Keep up the great work Ray.

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JJ Surkin

Facial Composite Artist

It was current year and un-belled bears were at an all time high with victims popping up left, right, and dead. We reached out to victims and their families for descriptions of the un-belled bears so that we could bell them. But our artist renderings got us nowhere.

We needed someone who could create facial composites and that's when we found JJ. At his last position he worked as the Head Editor of Facial Compilations for Hot Bears at bearlylegal.exe.

"I do facial compilations for furry enthusiasts. I don't do facial composite sketches. Please stop contacting me."