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Overland Park, Kansas, US

Avenue Link is a performance based online marketing company that specializes in targeted online and mobile lead generation as well as data monetization services. Avenue Link utilizes a variety of strategies including email and affiliate marketing, search engine pay per click advertising, and data management. We work only with trusted partners and.

New York, NY, US

CRO School Graduate (February 2022). Learned skills, perspectives, and experiences to strategically level-up to the C-Suite.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

The Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) was founded in 1995 by Barnett Helzberg, Jr., former owner, and President of Helzberg Diamonds. Inspired by his twenty-three-year mentoring relationship with Ewing Kauffman, HEMP matches seasoned, successful entrepreneur mentors with less-experienced entrepreneur mentees. Considerable mentoring is also.

San Francisco, CA, US

With a mission to improve lives through learning, Udemy is the largest online learning destination that helps students, businesses, and governments gain the skills they need to compete in today’s economy. More than 50 million students are mastering new skills from expert instructors teaching over 150,000 online courses in topics from programming and data.

Berlin, BE, DE

MAPEGY empowers the leaders of the world’s most innovative organizations with technology insights required to help define their future. Imagine you have a dynamic map of the emerging technologies and new business strategies incubating around the globe. MAPEGY's Global InnovationGraph gives you the intelligence you need to make more informed business.

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• Leveraging my extensive career experience, my job is to grow our clientele list by developing marketing strategies, conducting business planning, and remotely managing a geographically dispersed team of client service.
• VP, West Region: Became the first American region to achieve a 100% client retention rate; attained 121% revenue retention for annualized contract value (ACV) through March 2020.
• VP, West Region: Earned promotion to VP of Western Region in November 2019.
• VP, Japan: Captured 11 new Fortune 500 clients in Japan in less than one year by driving innovative logo acquisition strategy; generated $1.5M in sales.
• VP, Japan: Lead efforts to achieve 100% existing client retention rate on count bases with 125% revenue retention for ACV.

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• Orchestrated sales activities for North American companies across agriculture, food & beverage, chemicals, and electronics industries. Prospected sales opportunities and aggressively pursued leads. Built and led.
• Sales Growth: Successfully hit 2018 sales goal ($7M) on pro-rata basis by effectively leading nine sales team members responsible for acquiring new logos from midsize and Fortune 1000 companies across wide range of.
• Marketing Innovation: Expanded brand footprint by spearheading development of guerilla marketing program via speaking engagements and marketing campaigns using drip marketing and webinars.
• Operations Turnaround: Revamped poorest performing vertical by retaining 100% of existing client accounts and tripling previous new customer acquisition rate.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Hand-selected to grow business in United States by developing strategic partnerships for commercialization, licensing, and new ventures. Served as representative for all operating divisions, including Information &.
• Business Development: Sparked revenue increase by focusing on automotive, consumer goods, industrial, and agricultural industries.

Boston, MA, US

• Led sales operations, P&L, and efforts bolster and maintain business development. Oversaw first corporate acquisition of analytics firm and commercialized initial analytics offerings. Successfully sourced, structured.
• Business Development: Produced $500K in sales by writing proposals and closing large-scale projects with Advanced Energy Research Projects Agency(ARPA-E), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Hampton Creek, and General Mills.
• Strategic Partnerships: Completed strategic partnership agreement with SRI International to bring comprehensive technology and marketplace intelligence to SRI’s clients; developed global channel that produced.

Boston, MA, US

• Directed long-term and day-to-day activities for seven sales professionals across account management, business development, and inside sales. Devised account management strategy for approximately 80 clients throughout.
• Client Retention: Increased retention rate from 72% to 82% on count basis, with 91% revenue retention.
• Revenue Growth: Drove $3.3M in consulting sales, including approximately $500K from retained consulting services.

Boston, MA, US

• Owned direct responsibility for sales, marketing, customer service, and consultant services delivery across Asia-Pac region. Governed regional P&L and provided managerial support on global scale. Devised strategic.
• Customer Acquisition: Expanded customer base from 11 to 43 new clients in three years while completing first sales in China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
• Regional Growth: Enhanced Asia-Pacific ACV from $968K in 2008 to 3.07M in 2012; grew consulting bookings 50% YoY.

Auckland, NZ

Primarily focused on: direct sales, partnership development, recruitment of consultants and talented salespeople.

Responsible for direct sales force and development of strategic alliances.

P&L responsibility for Sales, Customer Service, and fulfillment of benchmarking services for 400 consultants globally.Reengineered team structure and processes for sales, service, and delivery of products.Developed criteria, selected vendor, and implemented CRM application expected to eliminate 750-1000 man-hours.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Spearheaded focused sales effort to expand client base, securing new clients: Matsushita, Mitsui, and Softbank while exceeding sales target by 40%.• Grew sales at existing accounts with Sharp, Toshiba, and Hitachi by 15%, and expanded these relationships globally.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Negotiated a ten-year distribution agreement with Southland Corp. (7-Eleven stores), expected operating profit of $8.5MM.• Successfully developed and implemented daily distribution model in Hawaii which led to the development of two new facilities in San Francisco and New York with combined deliveries to more than 500 stores on a daily basis, with future.

Ba, Economics & Political Science

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