Sales leader who knows how to recruit, develop, train, and manage channel sales business in any high technology field. Creative, high energy, information technology professional with more than four decades experience in sales, channel, and distribution marketing and management. Technical knowledge and over quota sales experience through multiple industries such as storage, backup/recovery, infrastructure, servers, networking, and virtualization. Extensive relationship database of enterprise channel/distribution management contacts throughout North America, including vendor relationships with companies such as HP, HPE, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, EMC, Lenovo, Cisco, and VMware. Distributor relationships with Avnet, Arrow, D & H, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, and Synnex. Managed numerous groups of degreed professionals including sales executives, channel managers, application engineers, inside sales team, programmers, and technical instructors. Conducted sales seminars, pre-sales and technical demonstrations, conferences, trainings to thousands of sales professionals, technical engineers, and end-user customers.Consistently exceeding quota in sales/business development roles. Obtained 110%+ of annual quota for 30 of 31 quota carrying years, with quotas as high as $28 million.Created 3 different Channel Programs from scratch. Developing all aspects of the partner channel from establishing tiers, processes, web site, marketing, collaterals, recruitment, sales presentations, sales/technical training.Specialties: >National Channel / Distribution Management>Channel / Distribution Program Development>Direct Sales and Technical Management>Accomplished Speaker and Trainer>National Channel Partner / VAR Recruitment>Sales/Channel / Distribution Training>Direct Named Account Sales>Marketing Budget / Cost Center Management>SaaS / DaaS>Business Strategy / Strategic Planning>Regional Forecasting / Account Mapping>Marketing Partner / Customer Events>Salesforce.com / CRM
Listed skills include Accomplished Speaker, High Level Sales And Technical Presentations, Exceptional People Skills, Program Facilitation, and 31 others.