Entrepreneur, business owner, and consultant with a track record for “outside the box” thinking. Building a customer-focused, profitable business through organic growth and through acquisition. Consulting with a variety of companies leveraging my deep industry and product expertise to help clients meet their revenue performance goals. After a great 17 year run owning Ace Hardware - Alameda Station and Ace Cherry Creek, I am leveraging everything I've learned about the retail business and my background in tech to help my good friend Paresh Rana run DilSe.IT as co-owner and CEO. I also serve as a Principal at Mereo run by another good friend Jay Mitchell.DilSe.IT delivers Information Technology Infrastructure Services to small and medium-sized businesses. Our focus is on retail, restaurants, small/medium offices and commercial developers. We serve more than 140 customers including more than 60 Ace Hardware stores today and we're growing rapidly.Mereo helps clients around the world drive sustainable revenue growth and execute a wide variety of go-to-market initiatives. It is a privilege to work with this great group of experienced executives to help our clients grow and thrive.Personally I am a leader with a passion for business. I have expertise across business functions from executive management to finance to human resources to sales. I have run my own business for 19 years. In that time, I have learned that good people are the key to success including employees, mentors and friends. Running a business is about serving your customers well and keeping your people moving in the same direction toward a common set of goals. As my good friend Jay Michell always says: "Seek to serve and the rest will follow...."Specialties: IT infrastructure and managed services for small to medium-sized businesses. Hardware retailing, marketing and B2B sales. Consulting for the high tech and software industry including messaging, go-to-market strategies, demand generation, product marketing, channel development, and sales enablement (direct and channels), software market and product requirements definition, acquisition integration, high tech sales and pre-sales. Other specialties include: supply chain management, logistics, lean manufacturing and procurement, Demand Flow Technology (DFT), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).