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Plant-A Insights Group advises businesses and consumers alike through facts, insights and innovative technology solutions. Our central focus lies in our cogent rankings and robust business directory. Plant-A is a resource efficient business and data intelligence powerhouse with a strong international team of entrepreneurs, machine learning experts, market and data research professionals and is supported by an outstanding and accomplished advisory team. Plant-A Insights Group has operations in Germany, USA, UK and India.

Direct supervisor and coach of 4 sales managers at a B to B SaaS market research and business intelligence database. Responsible for generating $1M+ annual revenue. Personal accounts include Ford, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Dupont and Fedex. • 25+ years experience in the C Suite selling global enterprise level accounts.• Upgraded General Motors from a $50k account to a $190k account.• As an individual contributor, achieved 106% of 2021 goal and 110% of 2022 goal.• Proactively develop sales opportunities within a variety of business product categories, negotiating new and renewal business with C level, VP level, and Director level contacts.• Achieved membership in the Statista 100 Club. • Promoted to Senior Sales Director, February 2023.

PMD is a national promotion firm specializing in alternative Outdoor/OOH advertising, including: Windowposter™ Displays, Brochure Displays, Postcard Displays, Magazine Displays.My clients include HBO, Universal Records, Cirque du Soleil, The Smithsonian Museum, Feld Entertainment and the Metropolitan Opera.50,000+ Display Venues in top 22 domestic markets.Focused & Broad-Based Advertising Campaigns.

Developed and implemented original concept for a business oriented social media startup.Recruited IT development team and directed all efforts through to successful deployment.Responsible for aggressively seeking out potential investors and venture capital funding sources.

12+ years experience selling complex electronic payments SaaS solutions to large and medium size companies.* Detailed experience with consultative sales process and delivering customized solutions. Achieved "President's Gold Circle" award for 120% of annual quota-2008. Achieved 50% of quota before end of Q1 2010.Client list included top 50 national accounts receivables companies such as MRS, RMS, The Outsource Group, and Associated Credit Services with combined annual revenues of over $50,000,000.

Sold B to B electronic payments SaaS solutions to various size companies.Closed the company's single largest client, Sprint PCS. Upsold additional services and into partner company Sprint. This account alone generated over $5,000,000 annual revenue.Personal book of business generated over $1.5M annual revenue in less than 1 ½ years.Additional major clients included Comcast, Bank of America, Associates Housing Finance, Monsanto, Ameren, Cellular One, and Skytel.Trained and managed 2 independent sales organizations.Managed relationship with multiple channel sales partners.