Herb is a highly accomplished sales and business professional with more than 10 years of success in the government and commercial markets. His job functions have included Sr Sales Executive, Sales Director, Business Development Manager, Marketing Manager, Consultant and Project Manager. This diverse set of experiences has allowed him to work effectively with government and commercial clients in solving a wide variety of business challenges by leveraging Information Technology and Professional Services. Herb's sales and business development background includes solutions sales in IT Services, Outsourcing, Telecommunications,CRM, Business Intelligence, large data storage, high performance systems, GIS and demographic data analysis. These sales successes were with several leading edge technology vendors to include HP, IBM, Teradata and AC Nielsen. Herb has received many awards for exceptional performance and was consistently ranked in the top 10% for sales professionals. Herb has also served in government as a Sr. Marketing Executive with the State of Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development. His responsibilities included leading a team charged to design and implement strategies to attract technology businesses and investments to Maryland. He played a key role in positioning the state of Maryland as a desired location for attracting technology companies. This positioning resulted in the creation of over 1,000 new technology jobs and Maryland being ranked #3 among states in attractiveness for technology companies. Herb’s military service was with the US Army as a systems analyst. His academic background includes a BS in Chemistry from Florida A&M University and a MS in Systems Management & Information Technology from Notre Dame de Namur University. He has numerous product certifications from IBM, HP, Teradata and AC Nielsen.