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Leading the Commercial Team and driving global Sales, Partnerships and Business Development for MPO. Core member of the Management Team (MT) at MPO presenting in Board meetings, Advisory Board meetings, company-wide monthly standups, and weekly/daily management meetings. Driving our expansion into LATAM and preparing for our unprecedented global growth, we joined Kinaxis August 16, 2022, to expand our respective company offering for supply chain concurrency; truly bringing together Supply Chain Planning and Execution like no other solution in the market. MPO will operate as a standalone company, a Kinaxis company, but leverage the full resources to support the explosive growth we are experiencing in Supply Chain.

Expanded role at MPO responsible for Business Development and Sales globally reporting to CEO. Leading Sales and Business Development team driving go-to-market strategy and sales growth plan globally. Driving a global unified process across the organization with all key Business Development and Sales processes. Responsible also for defining and developing global Partner strategy for sales growth and services.

Recently joined MPO May 2019 leading North America Sales. With offices in Rotterdam, Boston, Hyderabad, and Tokyo, MP Objects (MPO) helps some of the world’s largest brand owners and logistics service providers to optimize their orders end-to-end across their global supply chains. The MPO multi-enterprise cloud platform for Supply Chain Orchestration unifies Order information, processes and services across siloed ERP, WMS, and TMS systems, helping to master perfect orders in inbound, outbound and reverse flows enabling visibility, collaboration, and optimization across all of the internal and external parties in your supply chain. For more information, please visit www.mp-objects.com.

New York, Ny, Us

Infor acquired GT Nexus, the world's largest cloud-based networked supply chain in December 2015. GT Nexus operated as GT Nexus, an Infor Company. At the beginning of 2017 Infor Retail and Fashion Business Unit realigned adding GT Nexus Retail and Fashion as their go-to-market strategy forward. The Client Executive Partner role I took on added new responsibilities, accounts and a larger solution portfolio to include the GT Nexus Supply Chain solutions adding now the Infor Retail & Fashion Cloud portfolio in ERP, WMS, WFM, OMS, PLM, CRM, HCM, Talent Science, BI, Demand Planning, EAM, Marketing & B2B/B2E/B2C Commerce.

Oakland, Ca, Us

GT Nexus enables customers to operate as business networks, rather than as single, isolated companies. Our cloud-based technology platform runs our customers' physical and financial supply chains, providing global, end-to-end visibility and partner collaboration- all in real-time. Many of the world's most complex and international supply chains such as Caterpillar, Lenovo, P&G, DHL, Home Depot, Xerox, Nike, The Gap, and Pfizer are all on the same, secure GT Nexus platform. GT Nexus is the Linkedin for supply chain - a single technology platform for a community of a supply chain trading partners (3PLs, suppliers, carriers, customers, and banks) across the globe.As Global Account Manager I have strategic accounts responsibility for new solution sales and executive relationships for the full sales and post-sales cycle. I lead account solution selling strategies and extensive sales teams through the complex sale for tier 1/2 retailers. I returned back to work after taking 5 months away for personal reasons taking care of my mom through her last days late this summer 2014.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

RedPrairie and JDA Software merged as of January 7, 2013. My role from RedPrairie continues at JDA Software in the same capacity focussed on strategic accounts in North America except now I represent and consultatively sell the combined entire solution portfolio of RedPrairie and JDA which includes: Store solutions such as POS and Back Office, Clienteling, Category Management, Space and Floor Planning, Store Labor solutions (Time & Attendance, Scheduling, Task Management, Mobility), Omni-Channel/Multi-Channel solutions (Ecommerce, Call Center, Order Management, Mobile), ERP solutions from various acquisitions (JDA MMS and PMM, Ecometry Direct Commerce/Order Management), Integrated Supply Chain Planning and Execution solutions for WMS, TMS, Allocation, Assortment Planning, Demand & Fulfillment. These software solutions are represented from JDA acquisitions of Arthur, E3, Intactix, Manugistics, i2, and RedPrairie (Escalate Retail, Ecometry, GERS, Blue Martini).

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

RedPrairie acquired Escalate Retail in April 2011. My role from Escalate Retail continues at RedPrairie with the addition of representing a larger solution portfolio which now includes All-Channel Commerce (B2C, B2B, B2E), WMS, Enterprise Inventory Visibility, Enterprise Workforce Management. My territory remains the same for North America.

Responsible for strategic account sales that are highly growth oriented and represent tremendous revenue opportunities for Escalate Retail. Strategic Accounts are tier 1 and tier 2 Retailers that may be global customers and prospects which are aligned with Escalate's primary solution growth area;. Multi-Channel Retailing solutions. These solutions are targeted specifically at Retailers requiting solutions for Ecommerce, Relationship Marketing, Clientelling, Order Management, Intelligent Order Brokering, Order Fulfillment, and Analytics.Primary role is to work with account at senior management levels (CXO) to create a strategic relationship between the companies that will enable a consultative sales cycle focused on value creation to deliver a 3 year technology solution roadmap leveraging Escalate Retails software solutions for Multi-Channel Retailing.

Responsible for strategic account sales that are highly growth oriented and represent tremendous revenue opportunities for Escalate Retail. Strategic Accounts are tier 1 and tier 2 Retailers that may be global customers and prospects which are aligned with Escalate's primary solution growth area;. Multi-Channel Retailing solutions. These solutions are targeted specifically at Retailers requiting solutions for Ecommerce, Relationship Marketing, Clientelling, Order Management, Intelligent Order Brokering, Order Fulfillment, and Analytics.Primary role is to work with account at senior management levels (CXO) to create a strategic relationship between the companies that will enable a consultative sales cycle focused on value creation to deliver a 3 year technology solution roadmap leveraging Escalate Retails software solutions for Multi-Channel Retailing.

Escalate Retail, formerly GERS. I was recruited into GERS by former executive management from i2 Technologies.Direct contributor responsible for sales territory for 1/2 US in the Big Ticket business unit (Home Furnishings, Consumer Electronics, DIY Hardware, etc.). Territory was comprised of 90% new business focus and only 10% customer accounts Strategic consultative sales approach with strong relationship building skills afforded me 3 new client business closes for complete systems in first year. Top AE in first year for new business.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

JDA created the role of Solution Executive for my hire to bring a consultative strategic sales perspective to lead them into Tier 1 larger opportunity market. Responsibility included complete client profitability, consulting and sales in all areas of the Demand Chain business processes with a strategic focus on the Portfolio of integration across business processes and solutions. Relationships were mostly at Senior Management or C-Levels, but also with Business and IT stakeholders. A few key strategic customers included VF Corp, Target, Hewlett-Packard U.S. Consumer Sales, HP-Wal*Mart, ConocoPhillips, WorldWideRetailExchange (WWRE), all with references.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Focused on the Consumer Goods & Retail (CG&R) Industry vertical, I began i2 in Demand Management with the new solutions initiating the launch of the Demand Creation suite; Brand Management, Promotions Management, and Category Management. Led CG&R Industry Marketing for Collaboration and eXchange solutions and joined the VICS CPFR committee in 1999. Upon the successful launch of i2’s “TradeMatrix”, responsible for the successful development and launch of the marketing and sales for eMarketplaces in CG&R as the VP eMarketplaces, CG&R. Actively pursued an industry eMarketplace partnership leveraging prior retail relationships with NACS, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and strategically formed an alliance with a retail automation company, Retalix, to create an industry eMarketplace, C-StoreMatrix.

Marketed and sold the Retail and CPG Industry leading Category Management Software solution, CATMAN-Do!, including data warehousing tools from MicroStrategy, to Fortune 100 Retails, Distributors and CPG Manufacturers. Strategically Consulted on Category Management business planning process and the implementation of CATMAN-Do! Directly responsible for customers include Johnson & Johnson, McNeil CPC, J&J/Merk, Chevron, Associated Food Stores, P&G, and CCE. CATMAN-Do! was the industry leading Category Management solution integrating a myriad of data sources from POS, syndicate, panel, purchases and shipments enabling business users local/web access to Category Business Planning process and reporting. The solution was built on MicroStrategy Data Warehousing ROLAP platform.

Began in Retail Mktg supervising 13 high volume convenience retail and fuel sites as a Dist Mgr. Quickly moved into Sales Development Coordinator postion, a Marketing role leading 139 company ops and 1200 jobber sites in the SE over 8 states. Supported both direct company operations and wholesale marketers on national, regional, and local market promotions, media advertising, event marketing, site selection, merchandising and training. Responsible for all Category Management, Vendor Programs/Contracts, Store Merchandising, New Products, Promotions, Pricing and Procurement, Event Marketing and Advertising. The last 2 years were at the corporate office in Houston, leading the Retail Automation and Price Book initiatives serving as Consultant with IT to accurately build a Centralized Retail Price Management system, a Rebates Management system, and Retail Information System, Championed a centralized Category Mgmt Organization, and Data Warehousing system built on MicroStrategy BI tools.

Westborough, Ma, Us

Marketing and operational responsibility for 42 c-stores in Southern CT and NY, Lead operations for 6 area supervisors, 1 HR person, and 2 merchandisers. P&L responsibility for $31M sales.Other positions: Area Training Supervisor, Area Supervisor, and Training Store Manager

Management Information Systems (Mis)

Bba, Business