Meet Our Executives

As Bama’s Chief Executive Officer, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve the Bama mission – “People Helping People Be Successful”. Paula assumed responsibility as CEO of the Bama Companies in 1984, which now includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama Frozen Dough, Beijing Bama and Bama Europa. Under her leadership Bama has expanded to provide a wide variety of frozen desserts and baked goods to fast food chains and casual and family dining restaurants. Paula received her Bachelor of Science in business from Oklahoma City University (OCU) in 1982, and her PhD in commercial science, also from OCU, in 1993. Paula is the author of four books, the most recent was co-authored with New York Times bestselling author Jim Stovall. The Executive Entrepreneur is an important conversation starter about how all business people must embrace both entrepreneurship and management to succeed. To purchase Paula’s books, visit her amazon page.

Tenille serves as the US General Manager. Her responsibilities include aligning Bama’s strategic direction with the Operations, Customers, Quality, People Systems, Supply Chain, and Engineering departments. Tenille works on system view approaches for long-term company and team member success. Tenille spent many years leading our customer group, where her team was responsible for innovation, commercialization, sourcing and pricing, compliance, marketing insight, promotional management, and customer service.  Tenille received her Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Oklahoma, and her MBA from the University of Tulsa.

As one of the leaders within Bama’s sales team and a fourth–generation member of the family business, Jacob’s responsibilities include new sales, customer relations, product development, consumer research, product production, marketing and execution of overall sales initiatives. As a fourth–generation leader at Bama, Jacob continues to work his way throughout the entire Bama organization, gaining experience and knowledge within every department and operation within the organization. Jacob’s experience so far includes, general production, quality assurance, supplier quality audits, operations management, customer relations, product development, public relations, marketing, insights and research as well as other various facets of the organization. Jacob is Tulsa native. A Bishop Kelly Graduate, currently working toward his B.S. in Business Management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Food On The Move.