Background

I graduated from West Point, The United States Military Academy, where I was recruited by and played intercollegiate basketball for Legendary Coach Bob Knight. I spent 6 years in the Army, achieved the rank of Captain, Ranger qualified. Then I went into the “Real Army," Procter & Gamble, in manufacturing, marketing, advertising, sales & business development. This was my transition & acclimation into business from the military. I was then VP Marketing & Sales for several companies always launching new products to the mass trade, helping them develop the ideal "vision" of where we needed to take the "Brand Franchise" for maximum growth and profitability.

Total years in business, 41. For the last 3 years I have had my own successful National Sales & Marketing Consulting Company. We have a long-standing & trusted reputation in the retail industry which has allowed us to successfully launch 190 product lines to numerous trade channels. We have consulted with over 325 companies for various sales and marketing projects, adding value each time. I have over 4.0 million miles with Delta, all domestic, flying the country closing accounts, training brokers, attending trade shows like ECRM (I have attended over 290 ECRM trade shows, including 19 Virtual ECRM's), & meeting with clients for sales planning sessions, where we are guaranteed fifty 10- or 20-minute meetings with the key retail buyers and decision makers for my clients respective categories over the 3 day trade event. I have also been very active at other leading trade shows: NACDS, GMDC, CDMA, etc.

We confine our consulting business to a small select group of manufacturers to insure total in-depth sales & marketing support. My role is consulting VP Sales, or National Sales Manager as well as Marketing consultant or a combination of each. We use the same proven national broker network, consisting of over 35 key senior account sales executives, who were trained in Fortune 500 companies, to insure continuity & excellent national coverage. We develop World-Class Power Point Sales Presentations to generate significant distribution growth.