John Walborn

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CEO | GM | COO | Strategy | Sales | Marketing | Operations | E- Commerce | M&A | Medical Device | Healthcare @ Sanitas Advisors
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Keller, Texas, United States, United States
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About John Walborn

I am an entrepreneurial and customer-centric Senior Executive offering a successful career underscored by achievements in strategy, business development, sales growth, marketing, start-up incubation, e-commerce, contract negotiations, technology, product and brand management, commercial execution, Six Sigma process thinking, and organizational leadership. Adept in effectively managing a $500 million group of B2B and B2B2C businesses, working in the US, Europe, and Asia, leading teams comprised of 150+ members, and negotiating acquisitions valued up to $900 million. I have been chosen to speak at regional and national sales meetings to help organizations win prestigious industry and company awards. John WalbornPh: 817.559.5808cjwal914@ymail.com

John Walborn's Current Company Details
Sanitas Advisors

Sanitas Advisors

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CEO | GM | COO | Strategy | Sales | Marketing | Operations | E- Commerce | M&A | Medical Device | Healthcare
John Walborn Work Experience Details
  • Sanitas Advisors
    Co Managing Partner
    Sanitas Advisors Jul 2019 - Present
    Durango, Co, Us
    Sanitas Advisors is a strategy, innovation, sales execution, executive coaching & training agency. We partner with companies striving to create elite teams & maximize customer alignment. Our core expertise is in developing strategic partnerships, opening new channels of distribution, and driving consumer engagement across consumer products and retail.
  • Silktears, Inc.
    Chairman Of The Board
    Silktears, Inc. Jan 2023 - Present
  • Essilor
    President, Americas Ophthalmic Lens Business
    Essilor Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
    Charenton Le Pont Cedex, Fr
    Fast-track career with a $16 billion organization that is driving its mission of “improving lives by improving sight” through innovating B2B and B2B2C business models and products, while also creating greater consumer access and awareness to vision solutions that meet their individualized needs.Promoted to lead a newly formed wholesale distribution business which brought together Six existing business units into one. In doing this, we were bringing all of the distribution businesses together for the first time and as a result needed to find ways to create synergies, cost savings and integration where possible. Staff: Four Direct Reports and 150+ Indirect Reports: Field Sales, Sales Operations, Brand Sales, Customer Service, Inside Sales, Finance, HR, Technology and Marketing. Budgets: $500 million sales and $260 million profit. Board Representation• Grew the lens business significantly in 2018, doubling market growth through customer segmentation and strategic cross-selling of Essilor’s suite of business, we were able to achieve 4.6% growth in sales.
  • Essilor
    Vice President And General Manager Integrated Retail And Prescription Safety
    Essilor Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
    Charenton Le Pont Cedex, Fr
    Led a newly combined limited distribution business with the safety business. By bringing the two business units together, effectively managed the P&L by growing top line sales and bottom-line profitability, through innovating the way we go to market, growing product mix margin as well as reducing the cost to serve. Staff: Eight Direct Reports and 70+ Indirect Reports: Field Sales, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Inside Sales, Finance, HR, Technology and Marketing. Budgets: $125 million sales and $50 million profit. Board Representation.• Accelerated the growth rate to double digit within the limited distribution model growing sales $33M in 3 years, by utilizing a new pre-bate business model that allowed customers to upgrade their labs while cross-selling our latest equipment and consumables, all while deploying our premium branded technologies.
  • Essilor
    Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
    Essilor Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
    Charenton Le Pont Cedex, Fr
    Selected by the leadership of Essilor to facilitate and incubate the development of vital new sources of revenue for the future. In the emergence of Consolidation in several parts of the value chain, we needed to find new synergies and services that would allow the company to expand upon the existing assets of the business as well as pilot ways to get further involved up the value chain. Staff: 15 Indirect Reports: Field Sales, Sales Operations, Brand Sales, Finance, HR, Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Marketing Research. Budgets: $25 million Essilor Experts, $6 million JV• Analyzed and modeled an influence model for servicing, training and selling through ECP offices known as Essilor Experts that has now grown to 4600 practices. Services include Local and National Advertising, sales training, product training, office sales reporting, practice metrics identification, field sales call cycle and marketing as well as practice merchandizing. Current results show these practices out growing the market by 3 times.• CEO of a JV business model with a leading industry partner that created a centralized brand “Personal Optics” for ECP’s to take advantage of patient CRM tools, merchandizing and local and National advertising that increased practice traffic by 15%.
  • Essilor
    Vice President, Marketing
    Essilor Jan 2011 - Feb 2014
    Charenton Le Pont Cedex, Fr
    Headed the marketing organization concentrated on new technologies, manufacturing synergies, and performance product marketing. The marketing leadership position included leading the deployment of dispensing technologies while innovating new services and optimizing the various loyalty programs for all of the business units.Staff: Four Direct Reports and 20 Indirect Reports: Sales, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Technology, HR, and Marketing. Budgets: $30 million sales and $15 million marketing• Conceived and grew a dispensary technology services platform to a $30M business in 2 years, by identifying the appropriate business model and maximizing deployment by driving personalization as a primary RTB while launching our latest Varilux lens brand innovation.• Consolidated multiple company loyalty programs into a single focused loyalty platform reducing cost and complexity. By improving the offer and modifying the approach we were able to reduce costs by $5M and stabilize the balance sheet liability on a go forward basis.
  • Essilor
    Vice President, Strategy And Growth
    Essilor Feb 2007 - Jan 2011
    Charenton Le Pont Cedex, Fr
    Departed General Electric to lead the Americas strategy and growth plan for Essilor of America. The main purpose was to enable a 10-year plan to move the organization into new revenue streams while maximizing the revenue potential of the existing businesses. The role worked closely with the President of EOA to define, resource, build, incubate and execute new business models as well as service platforms to be able to achieve the desired 3-, 5- and 10-years growth plans.• Organized and led the Growth strategy for EOA resulting in several initiatives that helped the company accelerate growth from $1.7B to $2B in 3 years. Known as GAP (Growth acceleration process) we collaboratively sourced, analyzed, incubated and scaled several growth projects.• Incubated and deployed the buy and merge strategy that has resulted in over 100 acquisitions of our distribution partners and contributed to significant organic growth.
  • Ge
    Global Industry Manager, Electronics And Telecom
    Ge Aug 2003 - Feb 2007
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Promoted to lead a global industry marketing organization concentrated on new technologies, manufacturing synergies, and performance product marketing. Position includes leading a global team focused on top line product growth and customer value propositions for a $550 million segment, global strategic planning, product management and marketing, new product introductions, new material validation and translation, product promotions, multi-generation product planning, product rationalization, marketing communications, and public relations.
  • Ge
    Global Business Director, Telecom
    Ge Aug 2000 - Jul 2003
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Navigated team through a reorganization, global metrics, and new operational processes, and led customer validation and strategic marketing plans as new product technologies were emerging and required a decisive and experienced leader. Directed a $200 million organization with emphasis on globalization and new business development initiatives regarding the telecommunications segment, strategic marketing to accelerate high margin growth, and leading product training initiatives in Asia and Europe. Significant activities encompassed high level relationship management, marketing and brand development/awareness for a new product lines, new product introductions, global manufacturing capabilities, product value proposition, and global validation and translation.
  • Ge
    Account Manager
    Ge Aug 1997 - Sep 2000
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Promoted to sell engineering thermoplastic resin products to multiple industries such as healthcare, consumer products, electronics, construction and telecommunications throughout Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. Sales functions included B2B sales, customer acquisition and management, new business development, sales pipeline development, contract negotiations, productivity, and Green Belt Six Sigma projects.
  • Ge
    Field Marketing Development
    Ge Jan 1997 - Sep 1997
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Promoted to market engineering thermoplastic resin products to multiple industries such as healthcare, consumer products, industrial, electronics, and telecommunications throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Marketing functions included OEM customer acquisition and management, new business development, OEM pipeline development, contract negotiations, technology utilization and product segmentation.
  • Ge
    Application Development Engineer
    Ge Sep 1995 - Dec 1996
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Joined corporate giant to provide technical leadership and support in engineering thermoplastic for multiple industries including industrial, automotive, healthcare, and construction throughout Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Technical functions included application engineering, plastic part design, Train-the-Trainer customer seminars, customer acquisition and management, new business development, and productivity.
  • Tyco Healthcare Group Lp
    Product Development Engineer
    Tyco Healthcare Group Lp Jan 1994 - Jul 1995
    Responsible for the complete design and development of disposable trocar and cannula systems and ancillaries for minimally invasive surgical procedures.• Successfully designed and developed disposable product line Iotec for OEM customer.• Implemented manufacturing productivity solutions resulting in a 30% yield improvement in trocar assembly.

John Walborn Skills

Business Development Product Development Product Launch Cross Functional Team Leadership Market Development Medical Devices Product Marketing Product Management Competitive Analysis Strategy New Business Development Marketing Strategy Sales Operations Sales Management Business Strategy Six Sigma Market Analysis Strategic Planning P&l Management Start Ups Leadership Management Forecasting Business Planning Account Management Business To Business Team Building Talent Develoment Sales Marketing Project Management Marketing Management Mergers And Acquisitions Integration Customer Relationship Management Sales Process Private Equity Joint Ventures Healthcare

John Walborn Education Details

  • Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University
    Biomedical/Medical Engineering
  • Baker University
    Baker University
    Management

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