Jim Elliott Email & Phone Number

Los Gatos, CA, US

• EVP and Head of Sales, Marketing, QA, Operations and Sales Strategy for the US Memory Business Unit at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
• Leading North American Sales, Marketing, Operations, QA and Sales Strategy for Samsung’s Memory business unit, a multi-billion dollar business.
• Lead cross-functional, US-based organization of 250+ employees.
• Drive Revenue, Forecasting, Budgeting, Marketing, QA & Operations for Memory Organization.
• Set and Attain Annual and quarterly revenue goals by customer and by product.
• Maximize value added technology promotion with key emerging memory products such as HBM, GD7, DDR5 and QLC NAND.

• SVP and Head of Sales for Samsung Memory Business Unit in North America.
• Leader of 50+ B2B sales team, including 5 VP’s for multi-Billion annual revenue.
• Implemented Customer Relationship Management tracking system to analyze and improve customer interaction and service levels.
• Architected Centralized Forecast system to streamline forecasting and reporting process.
• Organized sales strategy team and run sales operations team to manage daily business.
• Creator and Host of Samsung Tech Day in San Jose (2017~present) with 500+ attendees.

• Oversees all Marketing activities for Samsung’s Memory organization in the Americas, with multi-billion annual revenue targets.
• Marketing Communications Lead for Samsung's North American Semiconductor products.
• Product responsibilities include DRAM, NAND, SSD, LPDDR, Graphics, eMMC.
• Leadership of 3 diverse teams (Product Marketing, FAE, MarComm) totaling 55 people.
• Champion memory transition from PC-Era to Mobile / IoT / Cloud Era.
• Drive synergy product portfolio into PC, Data Center, Tablet, Phone and OTT markets.

• North American Director of Marketing for Samsung’s NAND Flash product line, with an industry-leading ~40% market share.
• Responsible for achieving revenue goals of over $1B in 2007.
• Supervised team to direct production with HQ, allocate product, develop new customers and markets, and execute to monthly sales targets.
• Spearheaded WW promotional efforts surrounding SSD including co-marketing campaigns with key OEMs such as Dell and Lenovo.
• Increased SSD “Attach rate” from 1% to > 5% in a six month period.
• Authored Contributed Article on SSD’s TCO benefits in commercial notebooks.

• Global Sales for Memory Products at Apple and Sun, with cumulative revenue responsibility of over $1B in Flash, DRAM, SRAM and Graphics.
• Drove record breaking Flash sales growth at Apple- during iPod nano launch- when Apple became Samsung’s largest memory customer with over $1B in revenue by 2006.

• Promotion of Samsung’s leading edge DRAM product lines, including: 512Mb DRAM, DDR, DDR2, SDR, Network DRAM and Rambus.

• Evangelize the vision to create a commodity futures exchange for memory products.
• Accountable for volume activity on the exchange by recruiting customers to buy and sell DRAM in a completely new and novel fashion over a NASDAQ-like trading engine.

JP

• Responsible for North American DRAM business unit- HQ's largest revenue generator, with over $150M in annual sales.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Marketing and Sales Operations for SRAM and Non Volatile Memory

Executive Leadership Course

Masters, Mba

Bachelors, Organizational Studies

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