Erik Kling Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

London, UK, GB

• Vice President for M2M at Vodafone Americas
• Leading New Business Acquisition Team for IOT across all verticals and grow the business 20+ % year over year
• Entering the US market with domestic value proposition including but not limited to the complete vertical target markets, Connectivity and connected products
• Leading the Healthcare Expansion strategy for connectivity and managed tablets across all disease areas like Cardio Rhythm Management, Diabetes, Sleep Aetna
• M2M growth of new business and responsible for over 30 million US $ and new contracts up to 20 million US $
• Responsible for Latin America Sales working with the established reseller channel

London, UK, GB

• Director Business Development M2M, September 2010 to March 2013
• Entering the US market for Vodafone M2M value proposition for global outbound business, connectivity, hardware and M2M applications
• Building up a domestic sales structure and cooperation with Verizon Wireless
• Addressing all major verticals in the industry but not limited to healthcare, automotive or consumer electronics
• Building up a major M2M pipeline including GE, Medtronic, Boston Scientific or Fedex
• Entering the LatAm market and co create a Brazilian Vodafone MVNO

US

• Greenstone Ventures Inc., Oakland, CA March 2008 - presentCEO and PresidentFounder and CEO of Greenstone Ventures Inc., a Consulting and Media Company – fundraising, advisory board member of Technology start ups.
• Doubled Revenue in Sales for Greenstone Ventures Inc. each year
• Build up and Sale of Globetrack Wireless Inc., a GPS tracking company based on the GSM technology including online presence, complete product offering for vehicle and pet tracking including contracts with Sierra.
• Sales for Mobile applications for Blaze Mobile Inc, responsible for the carrier revenue (GSM & CDMA carrier) and introduction of Mobile banking with mobile ticketing and loyalty programs and Couponing and.

US

Responsible for 80% of the companies international revenuePartnership Management globally with partners like Telbios Italy, Telcel Mexico, Siemens South Africa, Entel PCS in Chile, Comcel in Colombia, T Mobile USA and morePartnerships with GPS partners around the globe like sirf, Mapsolute and Navteq and with local GPS service providers around the.

Munich, DE

• Carrier Management in the NAFTA region with Rogers Wireless, Cingular, T-Mobile and Telcel and Telefonica in Mexico/ Merconorte
• Managing operator approvals and requirements as well as quarterly technology meetings, 3 modules approved with Cingular, including MC75, quad band EDGE
• Development of M2M strategies for the US market, analyzing business cases and develop business opportunities for WM US
• Manage the relationship with Microsoft to integrate our modules and RIL driver in the MS Magneto platform
• Managing the relationship to Siemens WM HQ in Munich, Germany and delivering the roadmap and technology input for roadmaps 2006 and beyond
• Analyzing the US Automotive market, especially the MS initiatives and the Motorola On Star activities

Munich, DE

• Senior Product Manager Siemens Wireless Modules in San Diego, October 2004 to March 2006
• Carrier Management in the NAFTA region with Rogers Wireless, Cingular, T-Mobile and Telcel and Telefonica in Mexico/ Merconorte
• Managing operator approvals and requirements as well as quarterly technology meetings, 3 modules approved with Cingular, including MC75, quad band EDGE
• Direct PM interface to all major customers like Symbol, Multitech, Digi, Panasonic, Motorola, Aeris and HPSenior Account Product Manager for AT&T wireless in Seattle, April 2003 to Sept 2004
• Introduced and implemented the Siemens Roadmap and Strategy for AT&T wireless and their affiliates Dobson Communication and Cincinnati Bell with the result of 7 products launched with AT&T over 15 month
• Coordinated 6 RFP’s, RFI’s and new business initiatives and assured on time delivery and completion as part of the negotiation team for high value contracts