About
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. ― C.S. Lewis
Who We Are
Since 1990, Elements IV Interiors is a Dayton-based minority-owned, SBA 8(a) graduate, that has specialized in the management of commercial furniture contracts and projects of all size and scope.
We have 7 Core Values that help define our Mission of “Working Together, So You Can Work Better”
- Integrity first, second, and always.
- Success measured through happy clients.
- We compete with a smile!
- Never trendy, always trending!
- Love Local – walk the talk
- You can sit with us.
- Life Balance
Through our team’s un-matched experience, love for our community, and passion in working with you all, we know we will help make your vision, our mission.
Everybody has a story, and the one of Haworth & Elements IV Interiors embodies true partnership, and commitment to good.
Better Together – since 1990 we have partnered with Haworth, Inc. a leader in the commercial office furnishings industry. The partnership came naturally, as we admire Haworth’s family-owned entrepreneurial roots, commitment to sustainability, dedication to DEIB, design forward thinking, and service excellence.
Both of our homes are highlights of sustainability, Elements IV Interiors HQ on Wyse was one of the first Silver LEED-CI facilities in the state of Ohio. Haworth’s home, One Haworth Center has set the industry bar high, with a LEED-NC Gold facility.
We are proud to be a Best in Class Haworth dealer, this designation recognizes the top 5% performing dealers in the nearly 650 worldwide network.
Foundational Elements
Love Local
Serving the Dayton area for over 30 years. Throughout that time we have adopted over 52 local charities, and raised more than $200k. The Better Business Bureau of Dayton highlighted our local excellence by awarding us the 2012 Eclipse Integrity Award.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are a proud minority-owned 8(a) and certified, small disadvantaged business, and MBE Ohio. Proudly hailing from Mumbai, India, our owner Mark is the constant reminder of our American Dream.
Environmental Stewardship
Our building is the first Haworth dealership to achieve LEED-CI Silver certification, and also one of the first in Ohio. We are proud to be a partner with Haworth, the standard in workplace manufacturing sustainability.
Operational & Creative Excellence
We are our people. Over half of the team has been with our company an average of 15+ years. Nobody understands office furniture and Dayton more than us!
Presidents Award
Steve VanEtten, Service Technician
The Presidents Award honor those who best embody our foundational elements.
Company Culture
Our fun-loving professionals work hard on cutting-edge design solutions. They are the most creative and most motivated team in the industry. Our teammates are our family. It’s a family that cares about each other, works as true team together, and supports the community together.
Oh, and we also love to have a roaring good time.
Our dynamic company culture is what makes us a fantastic business partner. You can be confident and proud to engage with Elements IV Interiors.
Come see what all the fun is about.
Charities of the Year
Our family believes in the giving of our time, talents and treasures to the community where we work and live. Each year we adopt one or two local not for profit organizations and hold annual fundraising events, volunteer at local events and provide in-kind donations of products and services to our adopted charities.
2021 sponsors
Corporate Awards
Better Business Bureau 2012 Eclipse Integrity Award
The Dayton Business Journal 2011 Community Supporter Business of the Year
Dayton Business Journal 2005 Minority Business of the Year
Inc. Magazine 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies (1993: #48, 1995: #116, 2009: # 3,231)
Dayton Business Journal Fast 25 (2008, 2009, 2010)
Join Our Team
Elements IV Interiors is a well-established and growing contract furniture dealership in southwest Ohio. We are seeking experienced people with dedication, desire, and determination. We are passionate about offering a culture that is challenging, fun, energetic, and rewarding for our teammates.
Benefits Include:
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability
- 401K
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Our Team
Bailey Wooldridge
Bailey Wooldridge
Interior Designer
Bailey graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a degree in Interior Design and worked as a contract designer and a project manager previously. She was eager to get back to her roots of design when she began working at Elements IV Interiors as an interior designer and has enjoyed the detail- oriented work mixed with creativity and strategic planning.
When Bailey is not a designer solving the mysteries of the workplace, she enjoys spending time with her family. She always wanted to be a mom and has been blessed to raise two biological daughters and foster children. She enjoys spending time outside, cooking, baking and being a social butterfly.
Bobby Reece
Bobby Reece
Bryan Flemming
Bryan Flemming
Installation Supervisor
Bryan Fleming has been a member of the Elements IV team for over 15 years, having spent more than the last 10 of those as an installation supervisor. He truly enjoys continuing to work with many of the same great co-workers who have remained at the company during his tenure. One thing that has always impressed him has been the low turnover rate of the staff and crews at Elements. This has led to some good friendships outside of the workplace.
Bryan is married with three adult children and will soon become a grandfather. In his time away from Elements, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, spending time at the campground and always rooting for The Buckeyes.
Carol Hampton
Carol Hampton
Manager of Accounting and Support Services
Carol has been in the Accounting Industry for over 35 years and been with Elements IV Interiors for over 20. She is the Manager of Accounting and our Support Department and also a member of the Executive Management Team. Carol loves her job and the family atmosphere at Elements IV Interiors and believes the quote “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Carol also enjoys spending time with family, friends, her 2 Yorkies and loves going to concerts and visiting craft brew pubs and local wineries.
champton@elementsiv.comChris Williams
Chris Williams
Chris graduated from Bowling Green State University, starting his career in advertising.
Spending 8 years in Chicago Chris helped lead marketing campaigns for a diverse group of companies (Fortune 500 Companies to Bootstrapped Startups). He found his passion working with startups, and eventually joined a startup Natural Foods company, leading company operations. The Natural Food Company resulted in many incredible experiences, including donating over 50,000 meals to the World Food Program USA, and being selected to the inaugural Mars startup accelerator.
Outside of the office Chris enjoys playing golf, and traveling to play more golf haha!
Christine Leach
Christine Leach
Interior Design
Christine is a Dayton native and talented Interior Designer who graduated from Sinclair College. She is a team player whose passion for interior design is evident to all those who work with her. Her creativity spills over into photography. Mix that with her love of travel and she has a photo album that would make anyone jealous!
In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family, including her adorable dog who should have his own Instagram page.
Damien Janson
Damien Janson
Installer
Daniel White
Daniel White
Denice Conaway, NCIDQ
Denice Conaway, NCIDQ
Interior Design Manager, NCIDQ
Denice began her career as an Interior Designer graduating from the University of Cincinnati DAAP program which gave her unique experiences of employment and travel before working with Elements IV Interiors as the Design Department Manager. She enjoys sharing stories about her past crazy projects and horror stories of hand drafting with ink on velum. She loves the change in technology.
When Denice is taking a break from Design work she enjoys traveling literally anywhere, going to concerts, parks, camping, boating with family and of course spending time with her grandson.
dconaway@elementsiv.comDirk Didier
Dirk Didier
Operations Manager
Dirk brings more than 20 years of experience in shipping, receiving, scheduling, and logistics to the team at Elements IV. He earned a Masters degree in Education from Wright State University which is beneficial in managing the everyday eb and flow of the operations department. As a member of Elements IV, he has worked his way up through the ranks to become a valuable member of the management team.
In his time away from Elements, Dirk enjoys volunteering for his parish, with which he has been a lifelong member. He also enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family, and playing softball; a passion for more than 30 years that still finds him on the ballfield two to three times every week.
Eric Didier
Eric Didier
Installation Supervisor
Eric has been a member of the Elements IV team for more than 20 years. As an Operations Supervisor, he takes great pride in the professionalism of the install teams and strives to maintain a high level of client service that demonstrates quick and efficient installs with a focus on job site cleanliness. Eric has a vast knowledge base in floor-to-ceiling product, and both systems and module furniture. His dedication to the vision of Elements IV helps make the company shine in its Best in Class achievements.
In his time away from Elements, he enjoys spending time with his family. Eric was a manager for his son’s baseball team for many years and now loves watching his performance on the soccer field. He stays busy around the house with home improvement projects and enjoys getting a little lazy in the pool.
Heather Patrick
Heather Patrick
Director of Finance
Heather is number 6 ….joining the Elements IV team in 1995. With a milestone anniversary upcoming she knows she is not alone in those that still love their job here at Elements IV Interiors. She has worn many hats in her length of service and has consistently embraced a solution-oriented attitude. “If it’s broke – let’s fix it “is her approach to internal processes with the ultimate goal being customer satisfaction which will drive her bottom line – company profitability. Heather brought experience in
department store buying then started in sales and customer support. She quickly transitioned to the Management Team and Executive Management team and found her professional bliss. Having the honor of serving here for over 2 decades she has helped strategize and navigate through the ever – changing and exciting business climate. While she’s a bean counter, she is crazy excited about the changes in the industry going on NOW and the potential impact on business culture and productivity.
When not at work Heather loves playing with and raising her family. Traveling, swimming, sledding, Canasta and dancing are regularly in the game plan. While a rabbit will never be a dog, Clover is coming in a close second.
Kris Castle
Kris Castle
Kurt Castle
Kurt Castle
Installation Supervisor
Kurt began working in office furniture in 1985 after a year as a residential mover and estimator. Kurt accepted the position of Installation Supervisor at Elements IV in 1992.
Mark Williams
Mark Williams
President, CEO
My favorite saying and words to live by are “live everyday like it’s your last because there is no promise for tomorrow.” Family is everything to me, I’m blessed to have a great family, along with my teammates at Elements IV and dear friends who are also an extension of my family.
My absolute favorite thing in the world to do is play golf with my favorite foursome which includes my son, my daughter and my brother. I’m a foodie so I love good wine and great food. My guilty indulgence is sports cars…ok maybe red wine and a good cigar too.
mwilliams@elementsiv.comMary Trissell
Mary Trissell
Client Service Specialist
From Temp to over 10 years, Mary wears multiple hats at Elements IV Interiors. She provides support to commercial & GSA sales as well as handling corrections for the entire company.
When Mary is not working, she is involved in all things related to cooking and family (including her fur baby – Hiccup). She also assists in running a non-profit memorial foundation that supports local youth & works to help raise awareness of and de-stigmatize mental health issues.
mtrissell@elementsiv.comMissy Bomberry
Missy Bomberry
Senior Client Service Specialist
Missy has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial furniture world. She pays close attention to the details in whatever it is she is doing!
When not at work Missy enjoys spending time with her family and her fur baby. She enjoys shopping and supporting local non-profits.
mbomberry@elementsiv.comRobert Conaway
Robert Conaway
Installation Supervisor
Rob brings almost a decade of experience to the furniture installation Department. He has worked his way up through the ranks to become one of Elements IV’s newly added supervisors. Rob handles the majority of our Wright-Patterson Air Force Base installs and he takes great pride in assuring that each project is completed as flawlessly as possible. Rob is a valuable member of the Elements team
In his time away from Elements, Rob enjoys spending time with his family. He and his wife Rachel have a young son, Konrad. Whether it’s taking him to the local park or an exciting adventure, they always have a blast. Some of his hobbies include golf, softball, or the occasional volleyball. He also loves to experiment and try his hand at carpentry.
Scott Didier
Scott Didier
Warehouse Manager
Scott began his career with Elements nearly 20 years ago as a member of the installation team. After several years gaining a vast knowledge detailing product and job
coordination In the field as an Installation Supervisor, he began coordinating in the shipping and receiving of installation product in the warehouse maximizing the warehouse space including customer asset managed product as the Warehouse Supervisor.
In his spare time, Scott enjoys playing his guitar and writing original music as well as hunting, fishing, and going to the races whenever he gets the chance.
Steve Van Etten
Steve Van Etten
Service Technician
Steve is in charge of corrections. Problems arise and Steve has spent the last 19 years trying to unravel them. A work in progress, definitely.
An empty-nester, Steve and his wife Sandy have taken to travel and extreme foodie adventures.
svanetten@elementsiv.comSusan Vaughn
Susan Vaughn
Account Executive
Susan Vaughn has been with Elements IV Interiors for more than 20 years and in the industry for more than 30 years. (She started when she was 5!) She has used her experience from many
roles in the industry as a way to be a better salesperson. She enjoys the challenges of the sales role as well as the relationships that she builds with her clients. Hard work and dedication are important to her.
When she is not busy selling office furniture, Susan enjoys spending time with her family, her husband for more than 30 years, her 2 children and pets. She is a huge Disney nerd and you’ll find her at most home Bengals’ games through the season……yes, no matter how good OR bad they may be! WHO-DEY!
svaughn@elementsiv.comTammy Duff
Tammy Duff
Tammy started a second career in Interior Design after graduating from Sinclair College. Since graduating with her design degree and before coming to Elements IV, she worked in both residential and commercial design. Her job as an Interior Designer for a luxury custom home builder allowed her to showcase her creativity by designing unique homes including ones in Cincinnati Homerama. Working for a high-end custom closet company also allowed her to exhibit her creative skills.
In her free time, Tammy loves spending time with her friends and teenage daughter, as well as hiking, traveling, reading and practicing yoga. She is a big foodie and enjoys sampling new restaurants every opportunity.