Chris Ellinas

Region Sales Director - EMEA at Digital Check Corporation
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(386) 825-5501
Location
CY

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Experience

    • United States
    • Banking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Region Sales Director - EMEA
      • Feb 2016 - Present

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Region Solution Sales Director - Payment and Fraud Solutions (MEA)
      • Jan 2008 - Sep 2015

      Having the overall responsibility of the division in the Middle East and Africa reporting to the Region Vice President. Member of the NCR Middle East & Africa Leadership TeamResults oriented position: Annual targets on Orders, Revenue, and Gross Margin.Developing the division’s region strategy for profitable growth and working very closely with both the direct (branches) as well as the indirect channel.Reviewing and approving pricing proposals for complex software driven projects.Funnel (pipeline) Management (SalesForce)Outlook: Weekly-Monthly Submission and ReviewExtensive travelling throughout the region for customer meetings and workshops/presentations and generally for business development purposes.Product Portfolio includes: National Check Truncation Systems and ACH, targeted for the Central Banks and the National Clearing Houses, Commercial Banks Clearing Centers Solutions, including RDC, as well as Fraud Management solutions. Show less

    • Area Solution Sales Manager - Payment Solutions
      • Jan 2004 - Dec 2007

      Mediterranean, Greece, Cyprus, Middle East and Africa Distributors. Responsible for the business development in the area, driving the business for growth. Working very closely with the Area Managing Directors and Country Managers, and managing the distributor’s relationship to maintain and grow the Payment Solutions market share in the countries. Participating in monthly outlook meetings, reporting to the MEA Payment Solutions Director.Penetrated new markets in Africa for Payment SolutionsAssisting the Product Management team for the development of new software solutions for deploying them in the area. Show less

    • Solution Sales Specialist - Payment Solutions
      • Jan 2003 - Dec 2004

      Mediterranean, Greece, Cyprus, Middle East and Africa Distributors.Providing solution specialization to the local sales teams. Supporting account managers and distributors with proposals, and technical customer discussions and presentations.

    • Professional Services Consultant - MEA
      • Mar 2000 - Dec 2003

      Responsible for installation, configuration, and project implementation of Payment Solutions in the financial sector for the whole Middle East, and Africa region. Working very closely with customers to prepare Systems Requirements Specifications.Preparing Project Plans, Statements of Work, and Deliverable descriptions.Assisting in proposal preparation for large projects, and delivering customer presentations and demonstrations. Providing technical pre-sales support to the sales teams.Extensive travelling in the region for project delivery purposes. Show less

    • Systems Engineer (Customer Services)
      • Feb 1998 - Mar 2000

      In charge of planning, implementation and support of large scale Microsoft-based solutions. Established policies and procedures to be followed by the implementation teams. Supervised the staging of hardware and software, and the rollout of equipment to customer sites.Responsible for the implementation of large-scale enterprise-wide projects. These projects involved setting up, or replacing existing hardware and software and setting a new network infrastructures of organizations locally and internationally. Scoping included integration with existing legacy systems. Show less

    • Cyprus
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Systems Engineer
      • May 1995 - Feb 1998

      Systems Engineer: Provided technical support and installation services of Microsoft Systems and Server and applications to customers. Network Administrator: Set up the company’s network system. Responsible for its maintenance and normal operation. Systems Engineer: Provided technical support and installation services of Microsoft Systems and Server and applications to customers. Network Administrator: Set up the company’s network system. Responsible for its maintenance and normal operation.

    • Greece
    • Internet Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Support Engineer
      • May 1994 - May 1995

      In charge of supporting software of The Novell Applications Group. In charge of supporting software of The Novell Applications Group.

Education

  • Frank G. Zarb School of Business - Hofstra University
    MBA, Business Computer Information Systems
    1992 - 1993
  • Central Connecticut State University
    BSc, Management Information Systems
    1987 - 1992

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