David Bunten Email & Phone Number

From Dreaming to Doing for 40 yearsA builder, trusted advisor and partner to all business leadership providing insight and strategy to corporate growth that helps manage and grow organizations. As a valued member of a team, I can be counted upon to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships. Getting into the trenches to solve problems, in all aspects of a business regardless of product or service. Exceptionally good at bringing order to chaos to ensure the organization is synchronized. I’ve been relied upon to parachute into unique and difficult situations to ferret out solutions and counted on to develop metrics with deep dive data mining to support decision-making, to prioritize initiatives and tactics that will provide the most impact to streamlining, simplifying and dropping revenue to the bottom line.A diverse history of hands-on executive, financial, administrative, sales and operational responsibilities. Extensive corporate finance experience, including M&A, IPO, private equity and debt funding transactions.Professional Skills:• Business Development * Numerous positions required a ground up development of strategies to market, sell and provide services or product to ensure profit and growth goals are obtained. I am a big picture strategist who tears down a task to its smaller parts, tweaks the parts and puts into action the strategy. • Leader* A leader by example. Willing to get into the trenches yet excelling at providing employees skills that enable them to contribute and take ownership. Unapologetically able to make the tough decisions. • Team Builder* With the understanding of an organization’s objectives successfully have grown, pruned and recruited to create a team that works well together towards team goals.• Trainer* Everyone has to start at the beginning. I have developed the ability to break down the complex to help individuals understand how to accomplish a task to aide them in becoming their own expert.• Public Speaker* Comfortable one on one or in front of a group of thousands. Scripted or adlibbed. • Creator* An accomplished artist, cartoonist and writer published in a variety of media. Goals are created from an ability to imagine something new. • Motivator* Managing a sales force requires helping individuals tap into their inner motivations to aide them in overcoming obstacles and raising off plateaus. • Sales* Exceptional first line sales experience regularly recognized for exceeding targets.

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  The University Of Georgia

  Economics