Team Members

Blake Wikle is Vice President of Sales for Gold Creek Foods, a top provider of high quality poultry products. This month will mark Blake’s 20th year in the poultry industry. He comes from a diverse background of poultry operations, sales, and equipment sales. Blake joined Gold Creek in 2017 to manage the construction and start up of their brand new RTE production line. He currently leads a team that cover fresh portioned products as well as RTE sales for national accounts, retail, food service, co-manufacturing, commodity and commercial school business. Since the inception of the new fully cooked line, Blake has helped lead the company’s fully cooked sales from zero to just under 30 million pounds per year. Blake is passionate about customers and believes that strong relationships are the key to success in the service industry.

Blake was born and raised in the North Georgia Mountains and is married with 2 children. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Poultry Federation.

Colton Cuny handles National Account Sales for Gold Creek Foods. During his short 7-year tenure in poultry, Colton has worked as a Plant Sales Manager for a Top-3-in-the-world poultry company, as well as a Regional Sales Manager of the SW territory for the same company. His past 2 years with Gold Creek have seen him gain business from “Top 250” national accounts, be involved in retail sales with some of the country’s largest chains, and drive relationships with Global Manufacturers nationwide for co-packing opportunities.

Previous to Colton’s many sales roles, he came up on the production floor as a poultry processing supervisor in a Case Ready Retail plant in Texas. He feels that understanding the process is paramount in customer relationships, and that sales folks should do a better job familiarizing themselves with the items they are selling.

Originally from South Texas, Colton graduated from Texas A&M University—College Station with a Bachelor’s Degree in Poultry Science, as well as a Spanish Language minor. He and his wife Abbie moved from San Antonio to join the Gold Creek family in January of 2017, and have since welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Emma Claire.

Jack Crawford is charged with implementing and managing the commodity processing program for Gold Creek. He has been in the poultry industry since the mid-1990’s with a focus on managing and directing the commodity school lunch programs at 3 other poultry companies.

Crawford has served on a variety of state school nutrition associations and industry groups. He was the Industry representative for 2 years for the American Commodity Distribution Association (ACDA), an organization of over 800 members that focuses on providing and serving nutritious meals for the K-12 school children of the United States. Crawford was also Co-chair of the ACDA Processing Committee that helped draw attention to various issues that affect industry, schools, states and the USDA.

He has been a frequent presenter at ACDA and SNA conferences discussing issues such as Forecasting, Effective Writing of Bids, Sodium in Our Food, Recalls, Animal Welfare, Trends in the Poultry Industry and Antibiotic Fee Chickens and how it will affect the general population.

Crawford has a B.S. in Personnel Management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Crawford has lived in the Atlanta area for 30 years and has been married for 20 years and has 1 son.

Jason Sosebee is the Export and K-12 Sales Director at Gold Creek Foods LLC. He has been with the company since 2002 and is one of the first employees of the company. During his 17-year tenure Jason has played a key role in many aspects of the business.

Jason has a passion to succeed and has played an integral part in developing the frozen MSC/Ground Chicken export business and putting Gold Creek Processing, LLC on the map internationally. Gold Creek Processing, LLC is now the 3rd largest U.S. brand producer of frozen MSC and is in the top 2 U.S. brand producers for ground chicken.

In addition to the export market, Jason has also developed the school food service division for Gold Creek Foods, LLC. This is where he started off his career with Gold Creek, where he worked side by side with the CEO to launch the new products into the marketplace. His ambition and drive helped to get Gold Creek brand fully cooked products approved in schools across the United States.

Prior to joining Gold Creek, Jason had several years of experience in the technology field; first working as an implementation manager of an online B2B insurance exchange, then as a business owner of a website development company.

Jason received Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from Auburn University.

Joey Murphey graduated from the University of North Georgia in 1992 with an A.A in Business Administration, then graduated, Summa Cum Laude, from Piedmont College in 1995 with a B.A. in Business Administration.

He has been involved with the poultry industry for over 21 years. He spent 15 years in sales, 6 years at both payroll and functions within his company’s credit union. He has also served as a bulk fresh poultry sales rep.

Joey has prided himself on becoming fluent in conversational Spanish. His travels to Mexico, and other Latin American locations, on over 20 different occasions to visit family and friends, immersed him in the language and culture of these of these locations. As a result, he as acted as translator for corporate documents and newsletters for some of his past employers.

“World’s Strongest Poultry Salesman” - In his private time, Joey is a record setting powerlifter. He has won 15 world powerlifting championships in four different body weight classes, as well as set state, national and world record in multiple powerlifting federations in the bench press.