
VP Business Development email: redg@skout.com
San Francisco Bay Area

VP Business Development email: redg@skout.com
San Francisco Bay Area
Proven business development strategist with a passion for taking cool technology and developing new business opportunities around it....
Branding, Marketing/Sales management at Director level, CRM implementation, sales strategist, Start-up experienced, Product refinement and development, Community management, strategic positioning, mobile industry
(Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Helped take a cool technology to a hard core business
Built strategic partnerships that impacted the bottom line
Helped implement strategic marketing position
Pitched, Spoke, and Put it all on the line for Skout
It's a Startup...You do a bit of everything
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
Research and Vet Under the Radar companies. Write Blog post, and just enjoy working with great people.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 4 months)
IconTsi (knowledge management and SaaS Sales/Web services firm for small and mid-level businesses)
Managing Partner, Sales/Marketing Director
January 2007 - Present
• Business Development acquiring clients (Midcon Data, Cummings Diesel, Immortal Space, Xcast, EAInteriors, Richards Construction)
• Developed and managed relationships with strategic vendors
• Manage and Built Inside Sales Team
• After 25% Q1 growth successfully merged with Stonehenge group increasing revenue to 500,000 dollar benchmark
• Oversaw and executed Web Analytics, SEO strategies, and Site content creation placing IconTsi as top five listing on Google search results
LokiMotion (Subsidiary of IconTsi Social Media Widget applications division)
Project Manager
• Creation of Social Media Widget Project division spin-off
• Created Requirements and time line for release of product
• Implemented revenue strategies and analysis
• Development of marketing strategy in Social Media Space
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Independent Consultant (Took on independent Strategic Marketing/Sales Strategies for multiple clients)
Sales Director/Sales Training Seminars
Xposure Business Magazine, Automobiles of Italy
May 2006 – January 2007
• Increased revenue for Xposure 25% by creating more diverse product offering
• Implemented CRM increasing sales time management efficiency
• Created ongoing sales training programs
• Developed KPI’s for future sales director of clients
• Created retention program based on residual commissions
• Trained inside/outside sales team
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
Square Trade (Sales Director)
March 2005 - April 2006
• Recruited and managed a 25 member sales team and ten member operations team to achieve exponential growth from 0 to $1.2 million in monthly sales in six months.
• Trained and scaled sales team from 8 to 25 fully functional reps in three months
• Develop sales training program resulting in average rep sales improvement of 35 percent
• Set individual sales associate goals and incentives to meet financial objectives for eBay motors division
• Collaborated with marketing to develop sales oriented marketing collateral
• Managed resources to successfully launch new products and drive consumer adoption.
• Defined retention messaging and scripting resulting in reduction of Client cancellations from 55% to 30%
• Determine COS and Commission Structure
emerging technology, sms gateway, ecommerce, sales, sales management, strategies, bing fa, mentorship, blogging, twitter, social media, entrepreneur, ning, social network, facebook development, widgets, gadgets, mobile, mobile social network, community manager, dating, mobile dating,