Ralph Tesson Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Ville St. Laurent, Qc Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Establishing Z-LASER America (a subsidiary of Z-LASER GmbH, Freiburg, Germany) as a dominant market player in the machine vision and automation industry throughout North America. We have successfully grown the business by an average of 35% annually since establishing the office in Montreal 12 years ago and continue acquiring significant market share and brand awareness for our lasers. Forecasts continue to be strong pointing to exponential growth in the coming years.

Providing Sales and Marketing consulting services to companies looking to expand sales into the US, Europe and Asia. This includes sales analysis, business plan development, CRM strategies and implementation, staffing and distribution network development. Specializing in High-tech companies providing machine-vision or automation technology as well as bringing other hardware or software products to market on a global scale.

Montreal, Boston, Vancouver

Launched the division and had input in Marketing, product development, web development etc. Established an International distribution network and grew sales to over US$2 million in three years.

Although I was responsible for a division of 30 people and 37% of the company revenue, my primary role was in the sales process and I negotiated 100% of the 2000 ShiftLogic contracts including the company’s largest contract to date (US$4M). I developed a sales and marketing plan that called for aggressive growth and was successful in opening up two new vertical markets. I traveled extensively, with 70% of the company’s sales taking place in Europe

Responsible for all Sales and Marketing activities within Southeast Asia and North America. I traveled extensively, calling on both potential customers and existing accounts with the sales team. I developed a new strategic marketing plan with the business development group to penetrate OEM and end-user markets. 70% of the company sales were within my territory.

Responsible for growing Coreco's business worldwide by setting up a global network of distributors. I was responsible for 35% of the company's total business.