Sales | Consultant | Sales Education | Board Member | Academic and Economic Development Programming | Startup Advisor | Speaker | Mentor | GuidePurpose: Chris wakes each day inspired to enable success in others through sales effectiveness, education, and teamwork so as to leave the world a better place than when he found it.Current Roles:1. Director of Business Development - iSpire, Inspired Technologies, Inc. 2. Instructor - UNB's MBA Program (Saint John Campus) - Teaching MBA 7701 "Foundations in Professional Sales" (Course Developer; Program Developer) 3. AXIS Sales Accelerator - Program Development; Program Delivery; Entrepreneur Coach4. VP of Sales - TrojAI 5. Customer Development Director at Mariner Partners, Inc.6. River and Fly Fishing Guide (Professional Guide 1 license holder in New Brunswick Canada since 2009)7. Secretary of the Board at Gordon McKay and Sons, 1996 Ltd. (aka "McKay's Blueberries") (Since 1996) Gordon McKay and Sons, is a multi-generation family farm located in Charlotte County, NB 8. Co-founder of Skyline Winery (Since 2011)Skyline Winery is a fruit winery specializing in NB local, wild blueberry and cranberry wines. Skyline is currently selling products under the McKay's Blueberries brand.Chris has spent the past 16 years marketing and selling IT and Business Professional Services for companies like iSpire, TrojAI, Ambir and EY. These activities have varied in scope from targeted sales efforts for established and brand new services to large and small firms in Atlantic Canada. He also considers all three levels of Government to be his clients.Chris spent the majority of his sales career with Xerox Canada during the “start-up” years for the Inside Sales Organization in Saint John between 1999 and 2008. He has held roles of sales rep, program manager and manager of a sales and support team. Such a variety of roles has allowed Chris to learn a great deal about many aspects of Sales, Training, Management and Support. Chris has also received some of the finest sales and management training available, some which came from Xerox Document University.Chris won Xerox’ highest sales award, President’s Club, four times as well as a prestigious Innovation Award that gave him the honor of representing Xerox in Athens Greece in 2004 as an official Olympic Torchbearer.Chris played an integral role in developing the curriculum for Canada's first MBA in Sales at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John and continues to teach MBA 7701, Foundations of Professional Sales, a course he developed.