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Jericho, New York, Us

A Cloud-based, Omnichannel Terminal manufacturer and gateway. Valor PayTech provides Merchants and ISO’s with every tool they need to succeed in an ever-changing business landscape. Processor agnostic, ISV friendly, and able to do pretty much anything you would expect (and sometimes happily not expect) a platform to do. If you are looking for the most nimble Cash Discount / Surcharge / Dual-Pricing platform, look no further. If you want to reduce your total cost of ownership of your ISO business and/or vastly minimize the time required to run your business, you have come to the right place. Ping me and let's talk about how we can help you.

Dallas, Texas, Us

vPromos is a value-added partner providing of innovative, payment/card-connected loyalty and mobile marketing solutions via a SaaS platform. We help SMB merchants increase sales, drive repeat visits, increase engagement, and improve business intelligence, while dramatically simplifying the rewards experience for their customers. Through their patented technology, vPromos delivers card-linked engagement right at the point-of-sale, providing easy enrollment, real-time tracking and redemption, and additional mobile engagement opportunities via the payment terminal. www.vPromos.com

Danvers, Ma, Us

Recruited to sell company’s cloud based marketing and loyalty platform to increase footprint in NorthAmerica. Responsible for hunting, finding, and closing deals with a wide variety of types of companies across multiple sectors. The company was started in 2009 and has 10k customers worldwide. At time of departure, the company pulled out of the US market and is focusing on Europe.Selected Achievements:• In less than 9 months, have closed deal with Yahoo!, EarthLink, EVO, BluePay, and others• In the first year, the North American customer base was expected to double the company’s size.• Streamlined new customer process from NDA to signed agreement• Reworked and redesigned all sales collateral materials in both print and online

Detroit, Michigan, Us

As the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, I sourced, hunted, and closed direct corporate merchant processing accounts and drove additional growth in the areas of referral partner programs and direct enterprise accounts, leveraging the company’s own gateway and information capital platform. Responsible for shepherding glacial sales cycles to quicker closure. Selected Achievements:• Brought to the table it’s largest volume customer in its history of the company• My portfolio was projected to grow from zero to over $2 bil in the first 12 months• Referral program grew more 1000% while on board• Closed deals with The Company Corporation, Grasshopper, National Investment Bankers Association, Small Business Association of Michigan and more

Troy, Mi, Us

Taking advantage of the company’s mobile payment platform, I was able to develop large scale partnerships with associations, direct selling companies, franchise businesses and more. Once partnered, I converted these accounts into more traditional merchant processing / credit card accounts to grow the business overall. Well versed in selling mobile payments, traditional merchant accounts, SDK/API integration accounts, and more. Presently call on the United States for all large business and enterprise level customers, attend and exhibit at customer and industry trade shows, and manage the corresponding sales pipeline.Selected Achievements:• Landed and managed the company’s largest (most profitable) processing customer• Grew portfolio of customers from zero to $400mil in traditional merchant processing; on track to break $1bil in 2014.• Responsible on a daily basis for bringing in 10%-20% of new mobile processing customers• Grew portfolio of mobile customers from zero to over 25,000 merchant accounts• Personal account portfolio includes, Origami Owl, Scentsy, Mr. Handyman, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, NPMA, PHCC, CEDIA and others

Regina, Saskatchewan, Ca

Responsible for leveraging our new mobile payment products platform, opening new channels of business in the B2B and B2C channels as well as the banking and financial and wireless industries. Channels include mass merchant and big box consumer retail, POS, B2B, banks, lending institutions, wireless carriers, manufacturers, OEMs, ODMs, direct sales consultants, MLM and more. Also, responsible for monetizing products in the mobile payment category and consumer online shopping and identity theft and fraud prevention category. Also, responsible for marketing activities, agency management, retail packaging and production of all marketing collateral materials, and the online affiliate sales program.

San Francisco, California, Us

Open new channels of location based services / software (LBS) business for mobile, PND, SAS, automotive and online channels. Manage existing customers end to end to retain them and maximize their business opportunities and potential. • Managing and growing consumer business into retail locations such as Best Buy, Canadian Tire and Advance Auto• Creating new opportutniies from existing navigation industry network• Expanding customer base through effective research, networking and intelligent cold calling• Growing business revenue in automotive, and aftermarket sectors in accounts such as Pioneer, Panasonic, Alpine, Denso, and Volkswagon• Selling software as service SaS packages and programs• Developing various cloud computing platforms for off board navigation and/or connected navigation products and services• Creating development platforms and partnerships with established handset manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, RIM and Motorola• Consistently closing quarterly business above plan• Increasing professional services business and NRE sales with cutting edge projects

Oulu, Oulu, Fi

Grow traditional partnerships at the ODM, OEM, and direct brand levels to increase sales of the company’s white label navigation software in the Consumer PND market segment. Sales territory covers North and South America. • Actively targetting growth areas in Brazil and Argentina• Expanded Customer base by 1000%• Created new business opportunities in Brazil and Argentina and working on Chile• Opened up new ODM relationships in China to expand business into new growth areas• Presented company plans and spoke at business seminars in China and the US• Managing 45+ active accounts • Continue to work with all levels of the supply chain in hardware, software and data to explore new, and maximize current business relationships.

Pfaffikon, Ch

Maximize sales revenues and channel growth and market share with company’s GPS software and hardware technology assets with B2C retail, B2B manufacturing, OEM and white label partnerships in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil• Responsible for setting up distribution and dealer networks.• Manage retail accounts for Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Fry’s and more.• License intellectual property to PND, ODM and various hardware manufacturers.• Responsible for sales, margin and turnover for products in US, Canada, Mexico & Brazil• Demonstrate all products to retailers, distributors and press.• Created new relationships that started sales cycles with cellular carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Rogers, etc.), cell phone (Nokia, Motorola, etc.) and GPS hardware manufacturers, and the automotive industry.

Developed Audio Xtract and managed development of various software titles. Built an online and retail business with sales exceeding $1 mil in the first year.• Provided vision and managed the development of the Audio Xtract software program• Sourced, selected, and acquired entire product assortment for online store• Oversaw all retail operations using an outsourced sales and marketing organization• Negotiated and managed all OEM relationships, Affiliate programs, and Search Engine Optimization• Personally facilitated all customer newsletter emails and white list management to ensure the highest level of delivery success.• Worked with developer’s from around the world to create a variety of consumer software programs sold in the online store.

Us

In the VP of sales role, I applied my background and experience to guide a single product online company to a multiproduct, multi-level distribution and publishing company.• Company grew from $1 mil to $10 mil in 2002 and to $75 mil in 2003• Created infrastructure for assessing and prioritizing new product introductions• Developed internal programs for bringing new products to market.• Produced retail launch programs to introduce products to the retail channel.• Added the retail sales program and distribution channel where it didn’t exist before.• Negotiated new product acquisition contracts..• Helped create new opt-in mail campaigns resulting in greater sales.• Successfully managed in house and outsourced sales organizations for retail, OEM, and international business.As the Director of Product Acquisitions I used my purchasing and sales experience, to acquire a wide variety of resources for the company to help fuel the next generation of growth.

Managed B2C retail sales and overall sales channel for web software company which transformed into a B2B IP technology company. • Negotiated sales contracts, electronic software distribution agreements for both narrow & broadband distribution, OEM bundles, and all related acquisitions and partner contracts.• Set prices and discounts for the online and retail sales and distribution channel.• Oversaw and managed an 8 person sales team providing direction, setting expectations, goals, etc.• Performed inventory and production management for the past, present and future products.• Interfaced with the outside art department to give direction on new package designs.• Attended face-to-face meetings with the major US retail accounts to negotiate all facets of the business relationship.• Organized and scheduled Industry Trade shows.• Provided direction and set expectations of the companies overall Internet and e-commerce strategies.

Provided retail sales and marketing expertise for more than 17 different software publishers (for such companies as Red Hat, Block Financial, IBM, Grolier, Nova Development, Dr. Solomon, Travroute, Discovery Channel, and Jasc Software) while calling on the largest retail accounts based in the south central region of the US. Selected Achievements:• Closed multimillion dollar business deals with Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Radio Shack, CompUSA, AAFES, Hastings, GameStop, and more.• Implemented a paperless office program where critical documents are stored in virtual file cabinets electronically, saving money on paper, while allowing instant access to any document ever received. • Implemented and maintained the EDI system to retrieve and track weekly sales numbers. Wrote the translation software used to convert the EDI files into Excel spreadsheets saving hundreds of man-hours a year.• Spoke on PC Data Industry panel on the use of retail sales data for competitive analysis and product growth.

Oversaw entertainment and education product lines with a support staff of three for such accounts as Sears, Wal-Mart, Dillards, Meijers, Kmart, and more. Doubled sales and tripled turns while cutting the overall inventory by more than half. • Implemented a program to reduced excess warehouse inventory from 16 million to 3 million without affecting sales.• Produced and applied a program to dispose of excess inventory without taking a company loss.• Created and implemented a plan-o-gram program where field staff could display products uniformly from account to account.• Designed several programs to automate day to day operations and reduced staffing by 25% while increasing productivity.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Directed the entire PC side of the business, both hardware and software with a support staff of three. Reviewed and selected Video Games for both PC and video game platforms. Responsible for new areas of growth and supervision of high-ticket items. Gross sales grew over 50% in these categories under my watch.• Reviewed and selected which PC products went on the shelf and subsequent merchandising and marketing programs to get the product sold through.• Created standardized procedures for routine tasks that were previously unorganized• Developed rapid response system for product submissions from manufacturers• Instituted programs to test and review samples and submissions prior to making purchasing decisions• Designed programs to extract market share data from industry sell through reports

Spent five years working on the long-term development of the future home computers, and whole (smart) house control projects. • Involved critically in negotiating contract between America On Line and Radio Shack for retail and OEM bundling arrangement.• Sat on multiple industry panels including the Software Publishers Association and the Consumer Electronics Automated House Program.• Added over a dozen new categories of products to the store assortment.• Negotiated multiple contracts to source existing products from new suppliers at much better margins.• Designed the product-tracking database used to manage the software quality assurance program.• Oversaw as Product Manager, the DeskMate product (pre-cursor to BOB and Windows) bundled with all Tandy computers.• Presented new product lines each year to over 5,000 store managers in person and live via satellite.

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