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Pasadena, California, United States

Actors provided a realistic day to day business encounter in a training environment. Real Hollywood actors play the role of customers, colleagues, officials, and other personnel that are encountered by sales and other departments in their job responsibilities and provide very realistic situations / interactions for learning and training purposes.

Logan, Ut

Responsible for the North American Cell Culture Media sales and project managers. Focus is to integrate the extensive bio-process Sartorius product portfolio with media, buffers, WFI, and supplements supporting our customers production needs within the Americas.

Santa Ana Ca

Responsible for Market Development across Cell Therapy and Industrial Cell Culture product areas with focus on OEM/Private Label business. Primary contact for global OEM customers. Worked closely with key department’s company wide for support of 510K and CE Marked customer products.

Santa Ana Ca

Managed and expanded Global Industrial Sales Team. Restructured and accelerated expansion of US, EU, and ROW Key Account Sales. Turned around declining sales through targeted relationship selling, expansion of portfolio products into existing Key Accounts, and increased revenue from core products and services directed into new, targeted accounts. Sales growth of >35%.

Developing business in emerging Specialty Media markets by combining Irvine Scientific’s expertise in media and buffers manufactured for the Biotech and BioPharma markets with the elevated quality systems required for products manufactured for the InVitro Fertilization market.

Direct all sales activities for the US Research Sales division selling HyClone cell culture products to biotech and academic clients as well as to governmental research agencies. Implemented a new sales team and strategy to turn around a stagnated selling organization. Specific responsibilities include achieving sales and GM targets, coaching direct sales teams partnered with distribution sales channels, expense budgeting, forecasting, pipeline and sales cycle management, running regional and national sales meetings, and coordinating with marketing for new go to market strategies.

Complete business unit management responsibilities which included full P&L, strategic and market planning, monthly, quarterly, and yearly global business reviews, as well as internal and external corporate presentations.

Led primary Key Account Sales force and Bioprocess Business Development Managers. Account focus was large-scale production and scale up companies in the Biopharma and Pharmaceutical industries. Responsible for compensation plans, budgets, forecasts, expenses, national sales meetings, sales force training, resource deployment, and marketing coordination. Promoted to Sales Director from Sr. National Sales Manager after 1 1/2 years of managing the US key account sales force.

Regional Sales Manager to primary key accounts in the Northeast US. Developed critical relationships with primary contacts at key accounts for long-term sales of media, serum, and bioprocess bags.

Managed strategic and tactical aspects of media product line. Coordinated product positioning, pricing, promotion, forecasting, and inventory. Teamed with the international sales dept. to open new markets in South America. Designed and implemented highly successful Serum Free Media product launch packages.

Managed sales to technology driven companies in the inter-mountain West. Responsible for evaluating customer needs and providing complex business communication solutions.

Managed tactical and strategic aspects of product line. Responsible for $7 million diverse line of products including Sera, Media, and Bioprocess Bags.

Managed sales to both biotechnology and educational accounts in an eight state territory. Successfully developed, organized, and managed previously unopened territory. Awarded Territory Manager of the year 1993.

Mba, Business Leadership

Bs, Biology And Chemistry