
CEO/Co-Founder Collar Free
Greater San Diego Area

CEO/Co-Founder Collar Free
Greater San Diego Area
7 years in sales management, business development, and entrepreneurship. Experienced in leveraging sales and advisory teams to execute on an idea quickly and economically. Promotion and recognition guru with an education in corporate taxation. Possesses ability to attract and motivate users, customers, and employees towards focused execution while monitoring key metrics that drive business.
Interests:
Democritization of the web, Product driven social communities, Creating multiple revenue streamed companies, Teaching, Social media
Leadership, Recruiting, Motivation, Business Development, Professional Speaking
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Artistic Hub creates interactive online campaigns to engage your customers and fans. Our technology drives engagement, validates new product potential, creates measurable return on investment, and turns the expense of design into a revenue stream. Our clients include Sports Illustrated Kids, Active.com, Toys for Tots, and Vector Marketing (Cutco).
Collarfree.com is a clothing company where designers all over the world submit t-shirt designs for the public to vote on. The best designs are then chosen for sale.
Collar Free Inc.includes www.collarfree.com and www.artistichub.com.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Building the sales department and establishing initial contracts within the tennis industry outside of sanctioned USTA events. The tennis division of the Active Network is dedicated to developing online offerings for amateur tennis players,building and marketing programs, activities and events for the players, and hosting and developing applications that encourage online registration and ultimately drive growth in the sport of tennis.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 7 months)
We contract with high-end home owner's associations to produce a high quality magazine for their home owner's association. The publication is free or of little cost to the neighborhood and in exchange we have the rights to sell advertising to cover the costs and make a profit.
As an Area Director, we coordinate advertising sales, copywriting, content development, publication deadlines and requirements, and sales management and development.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
May 1999 — August 2004 (5 years 4 months)
Sales manager for direct selling company. Responsible for managing teams of 20-50 direct sales reps. Recruited, trained, and motivated sales team for Cutco cutlery. Cutco is a high-end, American made cutlery sold through direct and referral based sales.
Skills Developed: Sales Training and Development, Sales Management, Employee Motivation
Masters , Accounting-Taxation , 1998 — 2003
social media, web 2.0, design competition, crowd-sourcing, online advertising, blogging, entrepreneurship, startups