Experience

Continental Western Corporation

• United States
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Inside Sales Manager

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  Continental Western Corporation provides rope, packaging, safety, and industrial shipping products for all sizes of business. The Company offers strapping, stretch film, tape, twine, rope, and other packaging products for local as well as Nationwide customers. Manage a successful inside sales Team charged with incremental growth in new accounts and markets Continental Western Corporation provides rope, packaging, safety, and industrial shipping products for all sizes of business. The Company offers strapping, stretch film, tape, twine, rope, and other packaging products for local as well as Nationwide customers. Manage a successful inside sales Team charged with incremental growth in new accounts and markets



Lagasse, Inc.

• Midwest

• Territory Sales Manager -Foodservice

  • Apr 2013 - Jan 2018

  LagasseSweet, inc., a division of United Stationers, is a national wholesaler of foodservice disposables, paper, Jan/San, office, and safety products. With 34 warehouses strategically located throughout the United States, we provide next day delivery of over 100,000 products to all major markets. The industry's leading pure wholesale source of janitorial, sanitary, foodservice and disposable products, LagasseSweet offers not only comprehensive product selection but also the largest available catalog, along with an electronic commerce database. We can simplify your business with next-day delivery to 99% of the United States, flexible will-call service and drop ship capabilities. LagasseSweet is a single source offering unmatched depth and breadth of inventory, operational excellence, marketing support, national coverage and competitive pricing serving these distributor channels: Janitorial Industrial Foodservice Healthcare Office E-Tail I service seven states in the midwest, and handle buying groups, servicing predominately foodservice broadline distributors with disposables, paper, and janitorial products for their distribution operations. As a full service wholesaler providing marketing and eBusiness solutions, Lagasse is uniquely positioned to provide outstanding service and support to ensure our customers success. As your ReDi partner, Lagasse is able to increase turns and improve cash flow for your business that allows any size operation to compete in this extremely price competitive marketplace. Show less



Specialty Paper Company

• St. Charles, Illinois

• Vice President - Business Development

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2013

  Specialty Paper Company is a Converter that specializes in coated paper products. Our expertise crosses industry lines from food service to packaging materials. Customers are able to work with us to meet their most challenging product requirements. Specialty Paper Company is committed to providing our customers with outstanding service, timely delivery, and superior product support at competitive pricing. Our coated paper products are the highest quality and are used in many areas including the food, tape and label, packaging, and medical industries. We use our combined 75 plus years’ business experience to provide our customers the best service in the industry. We offer a range of products focused in one area of the paper converting industry. This allows us to give customers superior product support. Show less



BOX Partners, LLC

• Strategic National Account Executive

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2012

  Lead a team of sales associates and project coordinators to grow and penetrate traditional and non-traditional packaging distributors. Responsible for over $30 Million in revenue. Increased sales and profits through new account acquisition by over 9%. Lead a team of sales associates and project coordinators to grow and penetrate traditional and non-traditional packaging distributors. Responsible for over $30 Million in revenue. Increased sales and profits through new account acquisition by over 9%.



Global Recruiters of Medinah

• President

  • Apr 2009 - Oct 2010

  Global Recruiters of Medinah specializes in the identification and placement of top sales, marketing and general management talent in printing, packaging and consumer products. Within the printing arena, we provide expertise to companies involved in the packaging, publishing, commercial print, and catalog fields. Our specialized expertise in printing combined with our emphasis on placing sales and marketing professionals in other, related fields, enables us to help our printing clients by selectively augmenting the available talent pool within the industry with highly adaptive individuals from other areas who have a track record of consistently outstanding performance. In the consumer products sector, our experience in hardgoods and multiple channels of trade makes us a very good source for placements Show less



International Paper

• Sales

  • Sep 2004 - Mar 2009

  Worldwide manufacturer of printing papers, packaging, and consumables. Sales Manager –xpedx and Saalfeld Redistribution National Accounts 9/04 – 3/09 Led a nationwide team of sales professionals in over 115 divisions marketing the complete line of products offered by International Paper to the end user and reseller market segments. Increased revenue +119% through new account acquisition. Customers include TriMega, Progressive Group Alliance, The United Group, Bellissimo Foods, NAFED, is.group, P&G, ProAct, and Afflink. Show less



Wallace Computer Services

• VP of Sales

  • 1982 - 2004

  Led a team of 65 sales people responsible for bringing to market over 3,000 products marketed to office product, mass market, and college bookstore account base. Increased sales revenue +147% to become the industry market leader to customers including Office Depot, Walgreens, United Stationers, Boise Cascade, S.P. Richards, Corporate Express, BPGI, Staples, OfficeMax, and Wal-Mart among others. - Championed sales efforts leading to an increase in total revenue of 336% during tenure with the company. - Personally handled company’s largest account, Office Depot, increasing revenues +122% after award of sole supplier status for retail and contract segments. - Achieved key vendor preferred status with major accounts receiving multiple service and vendor awards. - Most profitable division as a percent to sales for the entire corporation. - Implemented major initiative to expand private label product assortments and positioning for profitable sales growth. Show less