Compendium has turned everyday items into extraordinary gifts, and everyday occasions into memorable events. We combine fresh, vibrant designs with thoughtful and inspiring words to create gift books, journals, greeting cards, stationery, and desk accessories that are sold in thousands of specialty gift stores nationwide. Compendium products celebrate the best parts of the human spirit, and highlight what it truly means to live inspired. For our corporate clients, we design, develop, and deliver unique products that customers desire and brands demand. Twenty years of experience means that we develop the concepts, understand the trends, and produce the products that make our partners stand out. We offer our expertise in research, planning, and manufacturing, as well as in creating fresh designs and inspiring copy. Compendium products put our partners in the best light so that they—and their messages—shine.Our corporate clients include several nationally-recognized brands, including Target, Nordstrom, and Starbucks.

Simplicity Consulting (www.simplicityconsultinginc.com) is a modern marketing talent agency that provides the “right talent, right now” to Fortune 1000 companies. Marketing is all we do. Staying laser-focused allows us to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that we deliver nothing less than proven expertise to our clients, in each of our core competencies:• Business Strategy• Campaign & Launch• Digital & Social• Business Analytics & Planning• Communications• Sales & Channel Programs• Project & Program Management• Product ManagementWe’re business experts who understand the needs of our clients. We build flexible marketing teams of experienced professionals who hit the ground running, helping our clients achieve results on time and on budget. For our consultants, we’re trusted mentors and motivated agents.

Compendium is a Seattle-based company that creates and distributes a line of inspiring gift products. Managing,wholesale sales channel. marketing and customer service.

Sabbatical for cultural education, mission work and travel.

• Restored executive relationship with strategic Named OEM account preserving Microsoft Office and hardware business and securing $37M in territory revenue. • Leveraged Microsoft-hosted product training for 400 technical support and sales people to increase software add-on sales and prepare for Windows 2000 launch. • Wrote and executed strategic business and customer satisfaction plans resulting in tripled Windows NT unit volume and client support for Windows 2000 product launch. • Negotiated prominent placement for Microsoft product lines in catalogs, cable TV infomercials to increase non-operating system software sales by 75k units. • Partnered with Marketing Group to roll out System Builder product training to increase product awareness and decrease piracy in the channel.

Business development and account management for online backup and data-on-demand solution provider.

• Orchestrated innovative marketing plans to increase distribution of internet connection software from 100K to more than 1M units by penetrating 5 Hewlett Packard divisions. • Rookie of the Year award in 1997• Promotion to manage Canadian territory 5 months after hire date

Managed and grew US customer base for web-based printing company in Canada. Managed account through contract negotiation, electronic prepress, navigating customs and customer service.