Mike Shepard Email & Phone Number

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

As their logistics consultant, I am leveraging my time in the industry to augment a strong team and am focused on helping this rapidly growing healthy skin care products company with their product testing, Canadian compliance, warehousing, shipping, and systems integration. As their tag line reads, it's not enough to be natural...it also has to work! And.

The winds of change are blowing, and going forward my focus will be on property management, development, and real estate investing. I will keep my foot in the 3rd Party Logistics and work with the clients I have relationships with, but going foward my primary focus will be overseeing approximately twenty four properties in various stages of development.

Avram Worldwide offers its customers end-to-end supply chain management solutions including global, national and regional transportation, warehousing and distribution, logistics, and technology services. The geographic focus of Avram Worldwide includes the United States, South Africa, Europe and China. Avram Worldwide is a Minority Business Enterprise.

I develop national accounts for this California direct mail & fulfillment provider and have worked with many of the top companies in the travel & hospitality industry.

Hired to manage day-to-day sales & marketing, I quickly took over all departments to include IT, accounting/finance and operations. Initial efforts focused on stabilizing client relationships and normalizing pricing & service delivery.Later, as Sr. VP/GM and in what was in the end a corporate turnaround, I took this company from losing money to a stable /.

Starting in San Francisco with this $30+ million banquet firm, I was tapped to open the Los Angeles operation and market a new 1,000 passenger banquet facility – the companies’ largest. My personal sales success led to landing both American Airlines’ 100 Wagons – their top annual national incentive for business partners, and one of the highest profile.

Starting as the managing editor, I was given day-to-day control within six months of being hired and was one of a small number of employees offered a position when this publication was sold and relocated from California to Florida. I grew my role to encompass advertising sales & print production to include responsibility for our print partner, R.R..

B.A., Economics & Latin American Studies

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