Founder / Ceo / Executive Officer
Univisionscrimson (Acquired By Yorktel)
I founded a start up - Univisions- (with no seed capital) that grew into an international technology integrator providing high end communication solutions to Fortune 500 businesses. The business built into a rapidly growing $60 million annual revenue leader.+ Managed over 120 employees and led all sales, sales engineering and scaled strategic partners for growth. Acquired Crimson Tech- Sold combined company in large acquisition to Boston based YorkTel. Total revenue at exit 140M.+ Built a world-class team of engineers, solution architects, and sales representatives from scratch to become the east coast's leading authority and pioneer in the audio-visual industry. + Built and cultivated a prominent client list with major state contracts across a multitude of sectors and brokered exclusive strategic partnership agreements with elite international companies. I became a Verizon business spokesman nationally while driving partnered sales from 0 to 12 million in 16 months, as well a major sales contract with British Telecom as one of only five such partnerships worldwide.+ I was proud to have built national strategic partnerships. Signed contracts to with IBM Global, Welch Allyn, British Telecom, Verizon, Verizon business, Verizon Federal. We became a Tier-one Verizon Business partner alongside of EMC, Avaya, NEC and Cisco. I personally trained Verizon and MCi Elite sales forces around country on our value proposition and later managed any channel conflicts along with balancing opportunity management.Successful exit to Yorktel at 140M + I founded a separate (spin-off / start-up) broadcast and video production firm - Axxess Television Production - which created proprietary content for local television stations and custom advertising solutions. Successful sale to PBS station WCNY.