I am a senior sales professional specializing in innovative sales and marketing strategies to secure new clients and maintain loyalty in financial services and consumer goods. Most recently at Balaveda, I successfully expanded our client base to include Woodloch Resort (ranked #1 family resort in the US) and secured additional pitch opportunities with a global hotel brand, a prominent national convenience store chain, and multiple brokers. I implemented marketing and sales strategies that have resulted in a 49% sales increase above last year, year to date.My expertise in investment banking and institutional sales and marketing reflects over a decade of client relationship management. I have sold communication services and provided analytics to global investment banks including Barclays, JP Morgan, HSBC, Stifel, Oppenheimer, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. Through customized services and reports based on each company’s business and customer engagement strategy, I reviewed “success report” data with executives to maximize their sales and profits. As VP at Kidder Peabody (a unit now part of UBS), I marketed institutional research analysts to the institutional sales force and to external clients including asset management firms. Both before and after receiving my MBA, I marketed foreign exchange trading systems at Citicorp in the US, France, Australia and Scandinavia. I began my career with Morgan Stanley’s equity research and sales training program. I received an MBA from The Wharton School, and was an international exchange student at The London Business School. At Penn State, I majored in Economics and Finance, graduating with honors. I serve as a management consultant and Vice President for the Alumni Corporation for Phi Kappa Sigma - Penn State. For my work with the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition shelter, I was received the Volunteer of the Year award, presented by Bernadette Peters.