Robert W "Bobby" Simpson Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tn

TravelOne International, Miami, Director of Operations & Global Business DevelopmentCompleted three-year assignment. Streamlined operations,reduced payroll, increased revenue. Guided the company’s market entry campaign into 13 Central and South American countries, plus staffing. Produced and managed events with attendance to 5,000.YTB International, Wood River, IL, COO, SVP Sales & MarketingCompleted six-year assignment. Instituted turnaround and change management business blueprint for this private to public travel & technology company. Employees grew from 10 to 300, distributors from 300 to 150,000, and yearly revenues to $341 million. Oversaw operations, project management, sales, marketing and events. Created E-commerce brand ZamZuu and nutritional brand Z4Life, including all marketing. Event production and management with attendance to 15,000. US, Canada, Bermuda, Bahamas and Puerto Rico.LifeScience Technologies, Orlando, VP-InternationalCompleted two-year assignment. Developed and executed an international entrance game plan into Japan, among others, for this manufacturing and marketing company. All international product approvals, distribution agreements, customer support development and marketing campaign completed for company’s international expansion. Created sales field compensation plan addendum and appropriate direct response campaign (print, web, TV) for these international locations. InteleCom, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana –Chief Operating Officer, Sr. VP Global Sales & MarketingCompleted five-year assignment. InteleCom, Inc. is a public holding company that owns two technology and communication subsidiaries, InteleFone and My Social Income. Implemented strategic business plan for InteleFone VoIP products that allowed distribution into over 120 countries while growing the marketing distributor base to over 2000 agents. Developed marketing game plan, including branding and social media, to capitalize on global initiative.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Serves as Regional Development Director, primarily in the Eastern US time zone for FHU. Duties include sharing the benefits and value of Christian education along with various modes of fundraising, estate planning, student recruitment, and establishment of various endowments. One on one and group settings used in sharing FHU story.

Toledo, Ohio Area

CCM, founded in 2008, offers energy and other essential services to residential, small commercial and industrial customers. Additionally CCM has partnered with IGS Energy, a leader in energy deregulation since 1989 with over 1 million customers, as their direct selling arm. As the COO I have streamlined the operation which has resulted in improved efficiency. Sales, marketing, IT, project management, HR functions.

Knoxville, Tn

Provided start-up leadership and organizational development for this young, private to public, telecommunications marketing company. Created additional company value by adding tangible and intangible products and entry into international markets. Positioned the company for strategic acquisition. Grew to 50,000 customers and $245 million in revenue in two-year period. Company was strategically acquired.

Directed the complete restructure and development of the international corporation to facilitate profitability and expansion. Consolidated redundant duties from four countries into one centralized location, for both administrative and logistics.• After restructure, grew from 100 to 250 employees, from 5000 to 40,000 distributors, and from $100 million to $420 million in yearly company revenue.• Piloted company introduction into 6 additional countries while directing new product approvals per country. • Convention and sales productions of up to 10,000 attendees and creation of multi-lingual sales magazine.

Transferred from the sales field into the corporate office to assist with support staff development, training, and testing. Sales field product knowledge and compensation training and testing. New product line market research, testing, branding, and product awareness campaigns.• Positive sales revenue growth with yearly average increase of 35% culminating at $600 million. • Managed $8 million sales budget for National Marketing Directors plus stock option program

Associate Of Arts

Bs Ed., Secondary Education - Biology, Science