Bio

Sales started for me mowing lawns and selling raffle tickets. In middle school sold enough tickets to win top prize in the state and go to the Boy Scout National Jamboree, that was a lot of cold calling. After deciding that a professional bowler career was not going to be my path, I started selling to pay the bills and have never stopped. The spirit of accountability and building your own business (when producing well) is what I love about it. Plus some good commission checks. Spent my early career doing a few things - going from new rep to top seller in 18 months, coming up with creative strategies for customer loyalty, selling the first deal on new products. If it was hard or creative I’d try to do it. Then the bubble burst and hit the reset button with a young family. Did great selling at SAS, but found that leadership and helping people succeed was more fulfilling. Achieving targets gives you the privilege to lead and then you find things that could be improved for your team and the business. That led me to working on all sorts of projects - Build the Go-to-Market plan for a new team, Develop an onboarding plan, Lead a compensation committee, Help on the launch team for this new product…. My International experience was a second MBA, so I might write a book about it. It is amazing working in other cultures so long as you are curious, like to listen, and ask questions to test your options for solving a problem. Really awesome and what has prepared me to do amazing things for whatever comes next. On the life side, I’m the ringer for the office bowling (and possible golf) outing. I like to win competitions, so be prepared. On the bucket list is to go to the World Series of Poker Main Event and Everest Base Camp (Covid delayed this one) Have an awesome family which agreed to go on our crazy adventure where we got scuba certified, so now we have fun underwater and on the ski slopes. During the pandemic switched from a coffee to tea drinker which was good in Asia, but a bit of a struggle back in the US.