Dave Blum has earned the respect of clients and peers throughout his career by consistently delivering outstanding service and results.He has always been dedicated to achieving his goals. Dave spent over two decades in senior sales management at a nationally recognized manufacturing company, and brings his wealth of experience to his real estate career. He leverages his keen marketing and leadership abilities, as well as his 27 years living in the northwest suburbs, to help his clients find their perfect homes.Dave’s extensive background in business has given him an edge in the real estate industry. His knowledge of strategic sales planning and budgeting gives his clients an advantage when working through the home buying or selling process. Dave brings his fine-tuned sales expertise, detailed follow up, and well-honed negotiation skills to every client relationship. His passion for real estate shines through every step, and Dave enjoys building a deeper understanding of his clients wants and needs in order to connect them with the right home. To be sure every transaction runs smoothly, Dave establishes strong relationships with his clients as well with other agents, lenders, inspectors and lawyers.Purchasing or selling a home is very personal. Selecting a real estate agent is an important decision; it’s key to have someone who will be an advocate throughout the process, as well as a partner and resource beyond the closing. Dave is eager to help his clients with every moving milestone and loves that his business has grown from their glowing referrals.

Real Estate sales in Park Ridge, Illinois.

CONTROLTEK is on the forefront of asset protection and security solutions with three divisions focused on understanding and servicing client needs: *CONTROLTEK ISS (Inventory Security Solutions) *CONTROLTEK ISP (Intelligent Security Packaging) *CONTROLTEK IVS (Intelligent Visibility Systems).From the most advanced tamper evident currency and coin bags in the world, to state-of-the-art retail LP tagging and RFID inventory products, CONTROLTEK's transformative solutions have a major impact on cost reduction and improved profitability for the many vertical markets it serves.

Pamco Label Company, a subsidiary of Resource LabelGroup, LLC, is a prime label and narrow web film converter with facilities in Des Plaines, IL. and Franklin and Memphis, TN. We focus on returning value to our customers by constantly delivering a high quality product with consistent and reliable delivery times.As a Company, we pride ourselves on embracing complexity, and that extends beyond the printed label. We partner with our customers in addressing their toughest application challenges- from concept and design, through print production and label application.

Founded in 2003, Optelcon is a Chicago-based premiere global provider of corporate expense reduction, containment and ongoing management services. Optelcon uses a combination of industry insiders, subject matter experts, professional negotiators, real-time market pricing data and proprietary technology to save its clients' money and improve controls. Over 90% of Optelcon's clients', save an average of 28% on major indirect expenses without changing vendors. Optelcon provides its cost reduction expertise over a wide range of indirect expenses including: - Global telecom (Voice, Data, MPLS, Conferencing, SIP, POTS, etc...)- I.T. , (Hardware, Software, Cloud, Hosting)- Life-cycle mobile management. (E-Procurement, Device Staging & Shipping, Rate Plan Optimization, Policy Management, BYOD, Help Desk, Repair, Recycle)- Energy, (Demand & Supply Side. Electricity, Gas)- Transportation, (LTL, Truckload)- Third-party printing, - Payment processing, (Tokenization, EBPP, Merchant Services)- Sales and use tax, - And others. Optelcon’s clients include Global 50, Fortune 5000, high growth emerging technology companies as well as several major global telecommunications carriers and other expense management consulting firms.

A diversified $140 million privately held company specializing in technology solutions to corporations, while providing printer consumables through Heartland Label Printers.*Increased sales from $1 million to over $9 million in 3.5 years*Captured top accounts including McDonald's and Menards*Increased manufacturing efficiencies by 30%

A $270 million public corporation and industry leader in paper coating, printer and roll converting, label manufacturing and imaging supplies.*Managed sales professionals with combined revenue exceeding $45 million. Resposible for hiring, training and developing*Secured top earning accounts, including CVS Drug Stores, Giant Eagle, United States Post Office, Barnes & Noble, Blockbuster, Costco Wholesale and Walgreens*Exceeded region sales and margin budget 7 out of 8 years

Over 18 years earned increasingly senior responsibilities. Part of the Senior Management team that grew sales by 255% from $45 million to $160 million over a 15 year period.Managed the sales force that generated over $72 million in sales. Exceeded the company's pretax goals for 5 straight years. Helped transition the company and customers over to Nashua Corp. as they acquired Rittenhouse LLC.*Exceeded personal sales quota by 11%/$600,000 in 4 of the company's top 10 accounts*Launched a new product family in 1999 that exceeded company's sales and profit expectations with $3.9 million in sales and a 5% pretax profit*Achieved 6-7% annual growth and pretax profit of over 10% from 1986-1991 in the scale label business