Rick is an experienced and highly successful sales and business leader. His passion is to help companies improve their sales process and sales effectiveness to enable them to better compete and win in the marketplace, creating profitable revenue growth. Rick has managed and sold at IBM. He has led sales and business development for Value Added Resellers. Rick joined IT distribution at Avnet where he became a senior vice president and general manager. Rick owned strategy and sales for key IBM product lines, led regions in the IBM business, and was the general manager of Avnet’s Hewlett Packard business, Avnet’s Canada and Mexico business, the Technology Solutions services business and the Avnet strategic sales team.Rick’s teams consistently achieved superior sales and business results. Under Rick’s leadership Avnet Americas HP business almost tripled. His regions and divisions consistently scored high in customer and supplier satisfaction. Rick led a two year sales transformation for a selling team of over 400 individuals. As a strategic leader Rick was responsible for acquisitions and leading the integration effort. If it’s a challenge, bring it on. Let’s get the team enabled, focused, pointing in the right direction and working together.
Listed skills include Leadership, Channel, Saas, Demand Generation, and 39 others.