About The Employee Network

Thank you for visiting The Employee Network online. The Employee Network Manages the employee discount programs to more than 91 of the largest Government Agencies and Corporations around the nation. Celebrating 13 awesome years, The Employee Network is the #1 most trusted source of companies like Honeywell, APS, The City of Henderson, Clark County, The Hard Rock Hotel and many more. Our reputation for professionalism has become well known to all.

Meet our Staff
Steve KoganSteve Kogan
President & Founder

The Employee Network, established in August 1998 by Arizona native Steve Kogan was a 2 a.m. brainstorm that has built the 13 year old company that exists today. His vision was to develop a place where trusted merchant partners could advertise discounts to the corporate employees in the Phoenix Metropolitan area.

The Employee Network member base started with one company's 9,000 employees, who benefited by having one clear concise place to find ALL of their available employee discounts. The discounts that are offered to Employee Network Members are managed on a daily basis by The Employee Network staff rather than the corporations.

Steve recalls, "In August 1998 we started with just 9,000 employee members from one major corporation and today our member base is over 500,000 from more than 91 of the largest corporations and government agencies in the nation."

With an experienced staff, The Employee Network continues to bring in quality vendors who are happy to offer a discount to our exclusive membership program.
Shaun BishopShaun Bishop
Sales Manager

After almost 3 years of being an advertising merchant of The Employee Network, Shaun took advantage of the opportunity to come and work for The Employee Network as an Account Manager in October 2009, and a short time later was promoted to Sales Manager.

He is originally from the Los Angeles California area but has lived in Arizona for the past 13 years. During this time, he served one tour in the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged. Shaun attended Chandler Gilbert and Mesa Community Colleges where he studied Business and Marketing. Throughout his career, he has been involved in Sales earning numerous awards and achievements helping to bring a tremendous amount of experience to The Employee Network. Shaun is responsible for overseeing all aspects of sales and also assists in business development for the company.

Shaun on The Employee Network: "The Employee Network is the wave of the future in terms of advertising as it brings a combination of Web, Print, Direct e-mail and Trade Shows to over half a million employee members at 91 of the largest Corporations, Hospitals, Cities, & Government Agencies in the nation. When a company chooses to advertise with The Employee Network they gain a unique advantage as opposed to all other forms of advertising; they get to utilize our combination of advertising tools and target employees of large Corporations and Businesses that can afford their products or services. In this day and age it is crucial that a company spend its marketing dollars wisely, and targeting people that are employed is key. The Employee Network also brings tremendous savings to its membership as these employees take advantage of great deals on well over 100 categories and industries. Whether you are looking to grow your own business or just looking to help save a lot of money for yourself and your co-workers it doesn't matter, pick up the phone and give us a call to find out more or just stop by our Tempe Arizona office as we look forward to meeting you!"
Andrea BurtscherAndrea Burtscher
Marketing & Events Coordinator

Andrea came to The Employee Network in March of 2009. She hails from Toledo, Ohio where she graduated with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Toledo. While at Toledo, Andrea was a 4-year member of the Women's Varsity Soccer Team, helping to win the school its very first Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship. Andrea worked in radio promotions prior to coming to The Employee Network, allowing her to make a smooth transition into her position here. Andrea organizes and directs The Employee Network Road Shows as well as playing an important role in launching new marketing campaigns for The Employee Network.

Andrea enjoys the outdoors, fitness, movies and travel.

Andrea on The Employee Network: "The Employee Network is a win-win company. We are always striving to provide more and better discounts to our Members, and of course everyone loves to save money where they can. We keep in mind that you have to have fun and love what you do in order to do it well. I encourage anyone to stop by our office and see the great atmosphere we have here!"

Donnie Hogan
Website Coordinator & Marketing Assistant

Donnie is the newest member of The Employee Network team after joining the company in Dec. of 2010. He is a proud Longhorn who graduated with a Bachelor's Degree of Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. While in college, Donnie learned many web, design, audio and video skills with help from local internships in the Austin area.

Donnie is an absolute sports fanatic. His loyalties will always be with his Alma mater, but he has also quickly embraced the Suns, Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Coyotes. Those who know him best, know that Donnie is borderline obsessive over Manchester United FC (a soccer team from Manchester, England) and attending the World Cup is at the top of his personal "bucket list".


Donnie on The Employee Network: "I love how we at The Employee Network use many different ways to gather, filter and distribute valuable information to our customers and merchants. This flow of information and advertising is constantly moving and benefits everyone involved. We have a lot of ideas we are working on with our site that will make that flow of information faster, easier and more efficient and that is extremely exciting moving forward."
The Story

The Employee Network was established in 1998 to have an employee discount program that would compliment a company store owned and operated by the founder Steve Kogan. The store operated as a convenience for a client of Kogan's other business, Corporate Promotional Advertising of Arizona Inc., a full service Promotional Advertising Company est. in 1992. Several employees (about 9,000) from this client expressed the need for a program such as we have now created. The client had a similar program in-house with a volunteer doing the best to keep up with the program along with job responsibilities. The idea of The Employee Network was to bolster that program, take the pressure off the volunteer and to turn the program into a business that would have its own employees that could focus on the employee discount program and nothing else.

This new company would work constantly to improve the program by finding great Advertising Partners that could recognize the power that a large buying group could make on their business. An Employee Network staff member would work with the Advertising Partners to create more and better discounts, programs and specials for the employees. This program would be designed to emulate the original company program whereby the employee only needs to show his/her ID badge - no coupons, books or membership fees. The next step was creating an informational website where the employees could find their discounts readily from home, work or while traveling. This original program was received wonderfully by the business's as well as the employees. Soon after inception, one of the Advertising Partners, Earnhardt's with 1,800 employees, asked why their employees could not make use of the same program as a part of their employee benefits package. Then came MicroAge, Insight, Super Shuttle, Pinacor, Honeywell, US Airways, Valley Big Brothers/Sisters and several others. The Employee Network started with 9,000 members and over-night became 75,000 members and still growing! Now, as we have several national companies aboard with us, we will soon be building into other cities and states. We have truly in our humble opinion, created the perfect win-win for all.