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Experienced Executive with strong skills focused on Technology Design and Development, Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Operations, with a consistent track record of generating world-class growth and success across start-up ventures, high-growth, and companies needing a successful turnaround. Experience includes hardware, software, services, social media, datacenters, and IOT, etc. Talented in creating sales and marketing infrastructures and building top-performing teams and strategic alliances that deliver billions of dollars in revenue on budgets ranging to $30M. Dynamic leader, team builder and communicator combining long-range strategic planning with flawless tactical execution. Business Turnarounds – Transformed underperforming HP business program segment to exponential growth from less than <$1M to annual revenue of $1B+ on $500K – $36M budget, driving total of $5B over six years. Early Stage Business Growth – Assisted engineering to manage, design, build and patent IP; built sales/marketing team and drove revenue and product portfolio growth of start-up technology company by +50% year-over-year within two years; formulated exit strategy. New Business Launch – Built transformer company sales and marketing infrastructure, taking it from zero to $80M in revenue over three years, and positioning company for acquisition.

Listed skills include Business Development, Start Ups, Direct Sales, Strategy, and 38 others.