Our Team
465 Sales
Furniture, Upholstery, Rugs, Accessories
Allison Mattiacci
Furniture Sales Consultant
allison@francisking.com | 612•503•4114
Allison comes to us from the insurance industry, but has always had a love for design, listening to multiple interior design podcasts & flooding her social media feed with design content. She spent the last few years at Francis King in textile sales, but has finally moved into a role that aligns with her first love, furniture. She and her husband have renovated 2 homes together & built their kitchen cabinets from scratch! In her free time she loves to capture the essence of loved ones & furry family members through oil painting portraits on canvas.
Kali Peterson-Squires
Furniture Sales Consultant
kali@francisking.com | 612•444•3483
Kali is a painter, she has an interior design degree and she loves color, which is one of the things she loves about working in our happy, colorful showroom. She loves family, friends, her husband, food, wine & chocolate, and, especially, furniture. And she loves finding that certain piece no one else has been able to track down.
Furniture Sales Consultant
syd@francisking.com | 612•930•4495
Syd was born and raised in the design world as her mother is an interior designer herself. With an interior design degree, Syd loves to spend her time helping people make their house feel like a home.
Syd loves reading, attending concerts, showing off her green thumb, and spending as much time as she can with her husband, golden retriever, Fern and newest adopted pup, Juno.
Syd Winter
408 Sales
Fabric, Outdoor, Trim, Wallcoverings, Window Treatments
Maddie Tanberg
Textile & Window Covering Sales Consultant
maddie@francisking.com | 612•345•9034
Maddie’s passion for design and working with designers led to her recent interior design degree. She’s currently concentrating on the face FK presents to you in her role curating window treatments in #408. Outside of the showroom, she loves traveling, new restaurants and the great outdoors.
Kathryn Kellogg
Textile Sales Consultant
kathryn@francisking.com | 612•345•9114
Kathryn's love of textiles, furnishings and architecture have led her to diverse positions in the home furnishings industry. She’s been a buyer in retail & wholesale, an interior designer, showroom rep, photo stylist and a design studio & workroom manager at a historic foundation.
She spends her free time visiting museums and historic sites, loves spending time out of doors, and most of all enjoys laughter with family and friends.
262 Sales
Fabric, Trim, Lighting
Lighting Sales Consultant
brenda@francisking.com | 612•930•4189
Brenda’s background in commercial interior design led her to lighting design and sales - many of you have worked with her on lighting projects over the past 30 years. She loves exploring local events & restaurants, the theater, gardening, and reading, especially with her husband and 2 kids.
Brenda Duepner
Textile Sales Consultant
sunde@francisking.com | 612•345•9271
Sunde’s love of textiles comes from her grandma, who was a sewer and worked selling fabrics. She says she’s “a small town girl living in a lovely world,” surrounded by husband, family and friends (and a cat and a good book).
Sunde Sullivan
Outside Sales
Fabric, Trim, Wall Coverings
Outside Sales Consultant
rachel@francisking.com | 612•326•9734
Rachel has been rearranging furniture spaces since she was a kid, and textile science class in college gave her obsession focus. She’s been on all sides of the design industry for 20 years.
Ask her about the latest local concerts, her rescue Jack Russel, or little known facts about Elvis.
Rachel Meyer
Outside Sales Support
Anneka inherited her Grandma’s creative genes, finding her passions in art, music, and design. Initially planning to pursue a music degree, she discovered the world of interior design during Covid. Now a recent graduate of University of Minnesota, Anneka is deeply passionate about good design and loves experimenting with color and texture. She is excited to continue her journey at Francis King; aiming to create spaces bursting with character.
Anneka Salstrom
Sales & Order Support
Admin
Sales Operations Manager
leah@francisking.com | 612•503•4196
Leah has been in the industry for over 15 years. She grew up designing elaborate boat houses for her grandparents and still loves using CAD to this day. Originally an FK customer, she fell in love with the product and people, & the rest was history!
She loves spending time with her husband, son, and baby girl, and has a travel checklist she can’t wait to explore with them. Oh, and Leah has a mini golden doodle named Finley, who has become our beloved FK showroom pup. He’s the team favorite when he comes to visit for the day!
Leah Kirkhorn
Inventory Controller
katie@francisking.com | 612•930•4338
Katie used her degree in interior design to learn the business from “behind the scenes.” She loves to work out the logistics, loves to see all the parts come together, and she loves color. She also loves her son, husband, and Betty White. (Betty is a cat.)
Katie Hirsch
Sales Coordinator
joel@francisking.com | 612•345•9018
Joel joins us with 9+ years of customer service and 2+ years of logistics experience. He has a passion to make every guest experience into one they’ll remember and share with family & friends.
Joel is also a proud cat dad of two adorable kitties and mostly survives off of multiple cups of coffee.
Joel Thor-Hedtke
Sales Coordinator
maddy@francisking.com | 612•444•6295
Maddy’s love of fabrics, colors and textures led her to pursue formal study of Interior Design. Ever since achieving her degree, she’s been indulging her fascination with the ways they all go together in helping her clients complete a whole space.
Maddy Davis
Sales Coordinator
melissa@francisking.com | 612•445•7806
Melissa’s pursuit of creative passions like mosaics, jewelry making, pottery and handmade cards during her bar tending days eventually led her to a degree in interior design. She loves to share the creative process of finding the “perfect piece you didn’t know you were looking for.” She recharges by feeding chickens on her sister’s farm and wandering through antique shops.
Melissa Jensen
Merchandising
Product & Showroom Management
Head Merchandiser/Buyer
lynn@francisking.com | 612•503•4153
Lynn's background in sales includes 14 years in the fashion apparel industry. She's been on both sides of the retail/wholesale divide in home furnishings and interior design, including buying trips down south and in Europe.
Lynn and her husband enjoy traveling and celebrating with their grandchildren. She loves a glass of wine but has also been known to disappear at sacred times for her cardio group fitness fix.
Lynn Diedrich
Fabric Merchandising Supervisor
mickel@francisking.com | 612•604•0261
Mickel joined us as an FK Textile Showroom Assistant. She shines at everything she does, whether collating samples or designing mood boards. Just out of college, she is ready to take on the design world, and we’re glad she’s in ours.
Mickel White
Ingrid Erickson
Merchandising Coordinator
Ingrid, our Merchandise Coordinator in 408, loves decorating with bright colors and fun patterns. Her passion for the industry, sparked by her siblings, has been lifelong. She enjoys seeing visions unfold within the dynamic design world.
Outside of work, she loves painting, drawing, and traveling, with Switzerland being her dream destination.
465 Sample Librarian
Julia’s passion for interior design was sparked by a high school class, where she fell in love with ID software and creating floor plans. She enjoys putting together flat lays and selecting materials.
Julia also loves 80s music, antiques, and sitting outside with a cup of coffee in the mornings.
Julia Fields
262 Sample Librarian
Scarlett has known she wanted to work in the design industry since she was little. From helping her mom redecorate the home to now, recently graduated with a degree in interior design.
In her free time, she loves to binge new TV shows with her pets, play board games with friends/family, and collect trinkets from her travels.
Scarlett Peterson
Owner
All Things Behind the Scenes
President & CEO
charlie@francisking.com | 612•249•9078
Charlie's middle name is Francis King, so that sort of answers a question that comes up a lot. He's a husband, a father of two, has a shoebox full of Grateful Dead ticket stubs, and has fond memories of surfing up and down the Jersey shore.
Charlie Flynn
Operations
All Things Behind the Scenes
VP Operations
dan@francisking.com | 612•361•1755
Dan brings over 20 years of home furnishings experience to Francis King, with an emphasis on sales operations. He has a passion for people and process and takes pride in developing collaborative teams, that in turn deliver amazing customer experiences! In his free time, Dan enjoys spending time at the lake with his wife and three daughters.
Dan Sandager
Sales
All Things Sales
Director of Sales
susan@francisking.com | 612•504•2910
Susan has had a big crush on the Francis King showroom for ever, almost like… she’s grown up with it. She has a fantastic eye for color and nice things, she moves fast, talks fast, and is ecstatic to be part of FK. In the outside world one can find her singing to herself with her nose in a book (especially a cook book,) and obsessing about something on the Bravo network.
Susan Flynn
Marketing
Events, Social Media, Website, etc.
Marketing Manager
sydney@francisking.com | 612•453•1002
Sydney's happy place is among creative people, good design, and quality beautiful things. With an advertising agency background, she’s passionate about human connection and how best we can transcend client wants & needs to help them thrive.
In her free time, Sydney enjoys being active outdoors, cooking, home renovations, and hanging out with her husband, daughter, and goldendoodle fur baby, Henry.