Lyron Bennett Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

In the last 4 years, we have: * Roadmapped, developed and deployed three new core business systems: PowerBI, SmartSheets, Sharepoint. Each business system implementation was the result of a discovery process focused on modernizing an aging IT infrastructure and creating more efficiency in our business systems and processes. * Migrated web platforms from a.

Greater New York City Area

I manage both the Operations of P/Kaufmann Home, the finished product division of P/Kaufmann, as well as a variety of interdepartmental and cross-department operational and sales functions.

Greater New York City Area

I'm currently working on Sales and Marketing efforts in three distinct market segments: Export, eCommerce and Home Textiles Finished Product. I'd love to connect with more people in Home Textiles as P/Kaufmann's most recent corporate acquisition is in that space, though I'm always happy to connect with customers, vendors and other folks in the traditional.

Greater New York City Area

Put Me In The Story is now the largest personalized book platform in the world. We are now partnered with most of the major entertainment brands for children as well as the leading publishers in the children's book space. Our mission remains to create an ecommerce platform that is powered by publishers and licensors, empowering to authors, value enhancing.

Greater Chicago Area

Sell Sourcebooks EDU books and software directly into High Schools.Manage the relationships between Sourcebooks EDU and software resellers and independent reps.Create partnerships with other companies in the broad Education space as well as with colleges.

• Grew an existing channel of business from five figures to seven in first year. Added 50+ new accounts. My top 5 accounts all had triple digit growth in my second year and 73% of all my sales to date have come from new.
• Manage over 70 accounts including regional chains, national chains, mass market and big box accounts, as well as the two largest.coms in the sports licensed space and multiple distributors who specialize in wireless.
• Responsible for managing and onboarding a host of rep groups to help service these accounts as well as drive new business.
• Responsible for program building and management for two other account managers, one of whom focuses on the stadium store market and one who focuses on growing our independent fanshop and wireless business.
• Sell a portfolio of over 5000 active skus in the ever changing marketplace of CE peripherals and accessories managing device change as well as "hot market" opportunities for my customers.

· Acquired, negotiated contracts, developed, edited and executed the publication of 40 books a year under the Jabberwocky imprint, along with appropriate marketing materials (copy, tags, sales hooks, etc) for each title. ·Used analytics (Bookscan, B&N & Borders Bookscan, Ingram demand) to decode categories, find potential publishing opportunities and.

· As of 2/20/07 I became solely responsible for the acquisition and editorial components of the Jabberwocky list when the original Executive Editor of Jabberwocky left the company. · Acquired, negotiated contracts, developed, edited and executed the publication for 18 of Jabberwocky's initial 20 book list first with an Executive Editors oversight and then.

· Prepared materials for acquisitions, launch, presales and sales conference for Executive Editor Hillel Black. Materials included extensive competitive analysis on a variety of categories, catalog copy and sales hooks. My competitive and category analysis were main reasons I was promoted to Associate. · Landed a couple big publicity hits, including having.

· Assisted the Executive Editor, Michael Boezi, with organizing acquisitions priorities and analytics in US History at AB Longman. · Organized and ran the peer-review process for our upcoming releases, prioritizing professors at schools with large enrollment and large survey courses to maximize our sales for each title. · Attended a few sales calls, mostly.

Ba, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy