Garrett is a 75 year old brand out of Chicago. Our focus has been on the confectionery side of the food business. We sell our products via our website, our shop locations in Chicago, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Dallas. Recently we began to sell Garrett in grocery retail in the US. International shop locations in Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. Our corporate customers use our solutions to cater meetings, provide corporate gifts to customers/suppliers and employee incentive programs.

We are a 75 year old brand out of Chicago. Our focus has been on the confectionery side of the food business. We sell our products via our website Shop locations in Chicago, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Dallas. Recently we began to sell in Grocery Retail. International shop locations include Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. Our corporate customers use our solutions to cater meetings, provide corporate gifts to customers/suppliers and employee incentive programs.

Hong Kong Business Association of the Midwest (HKBAM) is the forum of choice for business executives involved in international trade between Hong Kong and the Midwest region of the United States. Through the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), HKBAM provides access to a worldwide network of business partners entrenched in the dynamic and fast growing Greater China and the ASEAN regions, as well as local Midwest companies with a global marketing strategy. Tap into the experience and insights of this select group as a member, and open the door to infinite opportunities in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the rest of Asia

The Illinois District Export Council is a diverse group of volunteer trade professionals dedicated to helping organizations develop export sales and thus contribute to the National Export Program. The Illinois DEC provides leadership and trade expertise to complement the U.S. Commercial Service’s export promotion work. We represent the interests of the U.S. exporting community and provide business mentoring on the export process, trade education through our Export-U.com online export training website, plus workshops, seminars and community outreach to encourage Illinois firms to export. We follow a value and results-driven approach to serve as a model for fellow District Export Councils nationally

Responsible for establishing and growing an account base by selling professional services in the Healthcare and Retail vertical markets.

Managed a team of 10 sales and engineering professionals to deliver solutions to Microsoft’s largest customers in the Chicago Area Market (IN,WI, IL)Responsible for establishing and growing an account base by selling professional services to global, strategic and major accounts.

Vice President of Business Development for ECWerksECWerks was a boutique e-commerce consulting company spun out of TechData in 1997. ECWerks was acquired by IMRGlobal in 1999. IMRGlobal was acquired by CGI Group in 2001.

 Co-founder The Bismarck Group, a company focused on building customizable software solutions, and Bismarck Wireless, a company focused on serving the CRM needs for the wireless carriers.  One product, Wireless-Trac ™ was created to solve the POS and commission reconciliation problems between wireless carriers like AT&T, Cellular One, (Cingular Wireless) and Bell South and their reseller channels.  The Bismarck Group was sold to the Chicago based systems integrator Information Management Group in June 1997.

New Business Development Manager selling professional services to Fortune 2000 companies

 Various field sales positions with the value-added reseller, Corporate Software, Inc. (now Level 3 Communications) Established HP as a new national account for Corporate Software

 Various capacities in sales and marketing for disaster recovery specialist EDP Security (Boston).  Initiated and managed EDP’s relationship with both Digital Equipment and Hewlett-Packard.  EDP was acquired by Sungard Corporation in 1987.

EDP Security was acquired by SunGard in 1987