Celebrating Veterans in Manufacturing

Shannon Hooper
3rd Class Petty Officer

Scott Kucirek
Lieutenant
Scott Kucirek is the CEO of OCHO Candy headquartered in Oakland. He spent nine years in the United States Navy as a Naval Aviator achieving the rank of Lieutenant. He flew HM-53E helicopters in support of mine countermeasure operations and was based in Pensacola, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia and Alameda, California with deployments to Canada, San Diego, Corpus Christi and Hawaii. His primary squadron was HM-15 and during his three years at the squadron, Kucirek ran divisions in both the operations and maintenance departments. He had achieved all possible squadron flight certifications to include night landings and the functional test pilot qualification, which enabled him to certify that recently repaired aircraft were safe for use in daily missions. His last three years of service were spent heading up enlisted recruiting efforts for the Northern California recruiting region supervising 300 service members in over 40 offices achieving the highest recruiting results in the history of the region during that time period.
I left the service to pursue an MBA at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time serving our country and am still in contact with many of the people I served with.

Matthew Maziarz
3rd Class Petty Officer

Gary Wickham
2nd Class Petty Officer E5