Geoffrey Hamilton

Current

• Business Applications Specialist at Return Path

Past

• Summer Intern at Return Path
• Branch Manager at Vector Marketing
• Field Sales Manager at Vector Marketing

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Education

• Princeton University

Connections

50 connections

Industry

Internet

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Summary

Hello there, my name is Geoffrey. I am passionate, ambitious, and sometimes overly energetic with an entrepreneurial spirit and dreams of angel investing. I have an incredible thirst for knowledge, and as a result, when something new catches my interest, I will not stop until I have mastered every aspect of it.

Intellectually, I have always been drawn to and excelled at more left-brain dominant interests, which may explain why I chose to study of financial modeling and optimization in college. It's no wonder I surprised everyone when as an 18 year-old between high school and college, struggling with some serious health issues, I became a salesman nearly overnight. In two months that summer, I generated $21,000 worth of sales from a client base of 80+ customers all of whom I met through personal recommendations from previous customers. That was good enough for top sales rep in the city and made me a healthy chunk of change for the school year.

I continued my success part time into the school year, and picked up right where I left off the next summer, at which point teaching others started to pique my interest. I field trained 50 new reps, and set my eyes on management for the next summer. I underwent a rigorous management training around my sophomore year class schedule, and eventually opened up an office over the summer between my sophomore and junior year. I negotiated my lease price nearly in half, interviewed hundreds of applicants, hired/trained/managed 50 sales reps, managed two receptionists, and got zero full nights of sleep. It was an amazing summer!

The next summer, I interned with the company that I now work for, an incredible tech company named Return Path. My role in the Business Operations group is giving me amazing insight into the inner workings of a company, as well as some great experience managing projects and working in teams; knowledge which I hope to utilize someday in an entrepreneurial venture. I love life.

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Specialties:

Analysis, Project Management, Sales, Ad Buying, Negotiation, People Management, Oral Presentation Skills, Phone Skills, Statistical Modeling, Excel, Powerpoint, Salesforce.com, Apex, SQL

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Experience

• Business Applications Specialist

  Return Path

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  I work in Business Operations servicing the following internal business groups: New Business, Marketing, Human Resources, Inside Sales, Accounting, Finance. My position entails initiating and following through on projects targeted at improving user experience and increase productivity.

• Summer Intern

  Return Path

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Interned with the COO. I was involved in helping to automate monthly reports, data analysis, filling certain basic ad-hoc database requests among other things.

• Branch Manager

  Vector Marketing

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Found an office space and negotiated a lease. Hired and trained a receptionist staff. Ran a multi-source ad campaign. Recruited and trained a sales force. Ongoingly managed sales representatives.

• Field Sales Manager

  Vector Marketing

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Performed in home one on one demonstrations for potential customers. Built client base through referrals and personal recommendations. Field trained new representatives. Gave motivational and instructional talks at meetings.

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Education

• Princeton University

  BSE , Operations Research and Financial Engineering , 2004 — 2008

Additional Information

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Interests:

technology, venture capital, sales, resource allocation and management, finance, baseball, football, skiing, card games, nintendo wii, board games

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Groups:

•    Fans of Digsby

Geoffrey Hamilton’s Contact Settings

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