The Nashville office is TWG’s headquarters servicing our account management and consulting clients. Wilko’s administrative functions and tactical planning occur in Nashville. Conveniently located just 2 hours from virtually every major retail headquarters location, TWG’s Nashville location allows the team to quickly and conveniently engage with our partners on a face to face basis.

Neil Kohler is the President and co-Founder of the Wilko Group. Neil is responsible for the day-to-day operations and management of the organization. Neil helped to establish, build-out & manage Wilko’s global sales and marketing team to support and drive explosive growth with emerging toy and sporting good companies. Neil’s expertise in “solution-oriented” selling combines the professionalism and “fact-based” account management found at larger companies with the innovation and freshness that emerging companies offer to the marketplace. Neil has successfully guided the sales efforts for many companies over the last 18 years, specializing at mass accounts like Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Dicks, and Costco.

Prior to founding Wilko, Neil was the head of Sales for Cranium, the independent board games company. Before that, Neil was a Sales Director at VTech in the Electronic Learning category. Neil also has several product development accomplishments, including the Funnoodle pool toy which has sold over 100 million units since introduction.

Neil started his professional career with Procter & Gamble after graduating from the University of Virginia in 1986.

Neil enjoys travel, golf, cooking, and spending time with his family.

 

Andrew Perlmutter is a Senior Account Manager with The Wilko Group since July 2001. Andrew has managed significant elements of Cranium’s board game business and currently she specializes in bringing specialty toys and sporting goods to mass retail with a focus on major national retailers like Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Amazon.com, Fred Meyer, Ingram Publisher Services, Calendar Club/Go! The Game Store, The Sports Authority and Academy Sports and Outdoors.

Andrew joined The Wilko Group after a successful career Onsite Commercial Staffing. Andrew was placed in charge of seeking highly qualified people to fill the needs of his clients.

Andrew graduated from Southern Illinois University with a B.A. in Business Communications.  When not selling toys, Andrew is out doing Triathlons and other endurance events.

Jaime King is a Senior Account Manager with The Wilko Group since July 2007.  Jaime has managed significant elements of Cranium’s board game business and currently she specializes in bringing specialty toys and sporting goods to mass retail with a focus on major national retailers like Target, Kohls, and Wal-Mart.  

Jaime joined The Wilko Group after a successful career at First Act – the musical instruments company - as their National Sales Director. At First Act, Jaime was responsible for managing Target, Kohl’s, Best Buy, Amazon.com, Fred Meyer and Costco as well as several international retail branches.  Most notably, Jaime helped establish the current children’s musical instrument section at Target.

Jaime graduated from Miami University with a BA in Speech Communication with a focus in Public Relations and a minor in French.  A self-proclaimed ‘undercover hippie’, she spends her free time outside with her dogs, practicing yoga and living a holistic lifestyle.