· Appointed by the board of directors upon the purchase of majority ownership, effective January 1, 2008.

· Selected to run sales and marketing for a company formed by the merger of two competitors.

· Responsible for sales and business development in the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Asia. · Reported to the Sr. Vice President, Sales & Marketing of this $200 million manufacturing firm. · Develops business strategies and operational plans to increase revenues and profits by targeting new export markets. · Responsible for managing channels of distribution throughout the territory. Researches and appoints distributors at strategic points within the region in order to effectively market and sell technical products. · Formulates and institutes business plans addressing international marketing, logistical contingencies, and government policies, with full profit and loss responsibility for the region. · Successfully increased revenues within the territory from $250,000 to $5 million in three years.

· Hired to establish a new line of environmental engineering products and developed the sales and marketing plan. · Identified strategic opportunities through industry and market analysis, recommending product applications and engineered design alternatives. · Provided technical support to manufacturing, sales and marketing departments. · Designed and prepared marketing literature and sales aids. · Responsible for in-house technical training of sales force. · Formally presented product features and benefits to end users, state and federal regulators, engineers and specifiers. · Product Sales totaled more than $3 million in the first full year of production.

· Responsible for developing marketing programs for the company's line of synthetic engineering products. · Prepared product literature, provided detailed product descriptions and developed sales aids. · Recommended application suitability, testing requirements, product development and product line expansion. · Designed programs to test the suitability of the products in certain applications and under various conditions. · Gained considerable technical knowledge through use of the product and through association with academics and researchers in the field. · Applied for and received a patent on a bonding process to reinforce a synthetic liner used in liquid containment.

· Responsible for the profitable and efficient operation of a sixteen state sales region in the Northeastern United States with annual sales of $2 million. · Reported to the National Sales Manager for this $16 million engineering products manufacturing company. · Established pricing policies and directed sales efforts toward the areas of highest return. · Maintained indirect channels of distribution within the territory.