Our People | The Team at Championship Billiards

Dennis Ruber

Chairman | Chicago, IL

Hobbies: NBA Junkie, Base Jumping, Hot Air Ballooning, and Sky Surfing

Movie: Sophie’s Choice

TV: NBA Hoops (TV)

Food: Showgun (Book)

Family: Married with 3 daughters, and a Happy Zadie

Favorite Quote: “Live every day as if it were your last”

Fred Cohen

President | Philadelphia, PA

Hobbies: Fast Pitch Softball, Coaching Football & Baseball, ATVing, Snowmobiling, and working at the Lake House.

Embarrassing Moment: Too many to pick just one. I spent a part of my life in a costume and my job was to embarrass people.

Movie: Remember the Titans

TV: Big Bang Theory

Food: Pizza, Italian

Color: Championship Green

Superhero: My Dad

Champ Cloth: Tour Edition

Best Gift: A repaired heart valve in 1999

Quote: “Son only two things fall out of the sky, Bird crap and idiots, and you are not jumping out of a plane” – My dad.

Cecilia Hoh

Vice President | Taipei, Taiwan

Hobbies: Travel & Gardening

Favorite Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life

Favorite TV Show: The Big Bang Theory, & Bones

Favorite Food: Italian

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Championship Cloth: Tour Edition

Favorite Quote: “Wherever you go, go with your heart.”

Seth Novoselsky

Vice President of Purchasing | Skokie, IL

Hobbies: Coaching my kids sports teams, Being a Mascot, exercise, raising chickens, keeping my family happy.

Embarrassing Moment: On my wedding day, during the vows, I said “till Beth us do part” instead of “death”. Thankfully, I did not date or know any Beth’s so my wife and everyone in attendance got a good laugh.

Movie: Cars

TV: NCIS, Storage Wars, The Soup, Raising Hope, and Big Bang Theory

Food: Pizza & Pasta

Color: Navy Blue

Superhero: The Flash

Champ Cloth: Invitational Teflon 4066

Best gift: For Xmas, I got an autographed Walter Payton football (two weeks after he passed away) from my Wife and In-Laws.

Quote: “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.” – Groucho Marx

Marcel Sabio

Controller | Albay (Bicol), Philippines

Hobbies: Working Out, Kickboxing, Zumba, Traveling

Movie: Forrest Gump and Legends of the Fall

Food: Anything Filipino

Color: Sky Blue

Champ Cloth: Tour Edition

Quote: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed – Theodore Roosevelt

Bill Dunne

Vice President of Sales | Villa Park, IL

Hobbies: Billiards, Motorcycles, RC Nitro

Most Embarrassing Moment: I tried to back flip in the grass as a 5th grader…FAIL!

Movie: The Hustler

TV Show: Any sports

Food: Lasagna

Color: Yellow

Superhero: Skates

Champ Cloth: Tour Edition

Best Gift Ever Received: Daughter

Quote: If you are afraid you’ll make a mistake, you won’t make anything.

Boguslawa Slabniak

Data Processing | Jaslo, Poland

Hobbies: Crocheting, Reading, Baking

Favorite Movie: The Thorn Birds

Favorite TV Show: Iron Chef, Dancing with the Stars, Home Improvement

Favorite Color: Blue and Plum

Favorite Championship Cloth: Tour Edition – Euro Blue

Favorite Quote: Stay true to yourself

Pilipino Cabael

Warehouse Manager | Philippines

Hobbies: Basketball

Movie: First Blood

TV: Jay Leno

Food: Anything Filipino

Color: White

Superhero: My Parents

Champ Cloth: All of it

Johnny Garcia

Sales Associate

Hobbies: Professional working DJ on the weekends and enjoys working out.

TV: Netflix, History Channel, Travel Channel, National Geographic & watching sports.

Favorite Shoe: Air Jordans

Favorite Food: Sushi, seafood, Mexican, and Chinese

Chris Smith

Sales Associate | AZ Office

Hobbies: Cars, Rugby, Crypto, and Travel

Favorite Movies: 2 Fast 2 Furious Tokyo Drift, Forest Gump

TV: Squid Game, GoT, Top Gear

Favorite Color: Champ Blue

Favorite Food: Fish & Chips and Poutine

Superhero: Deadpool

Quote: “People who never do anymore than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore they do” – Elbert Hubbard