Rick Patton is a proven high energy strategic medical device sales leader with extensive successful experience leading teams in growing US and Canadian revenue selling capital, disposable, and implantable devices, biologics, and surgical tissues at market-leading companies including, Integra Neurosurgery, Baxano and Osteomed. His core competencies include performance leadership, operational management, talent selection and hiring, team building, developing and mentoring sales professionals, business analytics, contracting, negotiating and sales training in both market-leading and start-up companies.Rick’s strategic sales leadership, talent selection, and development skills have resulted in top national team leadership achievement rankings and goal attainments at every company for which he has worked. He has consistently hired, developed and coached his managers and reps to lead them to top honors and promotions.A driven and proven results-oriented medical device sales leader, he has built winning sales teams nationally at market leading companies, and has created and implemented sales and product training programs. He has consistently won honors for his accomplishments in sales leadership, sales, and Rick attributes his professional success to a strong commitment to his company, customers, sales professionals, and family which drives his relentless work ethic, team-focused development and coaching, strategic selling, highly competitive sales mentality and desire to exceed both corporate and personal goals. Rick's personal mantra is not be content to just succeed, but to consistently excel.Specialties: Proven successful sales leader capable of instilling desire in teams to exceed corporate and personal goals, talent selection and hiring, contracting and negotiating, advanced training and development. Skilled in driving sales success in start-up and established markets.