Experience

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  Innovecs

  • United States
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Chief Business Officer

    • Jun 2021 - Present

    Innovecs is a global digital transformation tech company with a presence across Europe, the US, and Asia. For over 12 years, Innovecs has been helping businesses develop, transform, and implement innovative products and solutions in Supply Chain & Logistics, Gaming, FinTech, and SaaS markets. Recent honors include being on the Global Outsourcing 100 list produced by IAOP®, The Inc. 5000 ranking, and The Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces List.

  • Senior Vice President, Global Business Development & Client Success

    • Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

    Member of the executive leadership team responsible for global business development, sales, marketing, and client success.

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  Forbes Business Development Council

  • United States

  • Official Member

    • Mar 2021 - Present
    • United States

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  Self Employed

  • Global Business Consultant

    • 2016 - 2019

    Consultant and advisor to ownership, executive staff, and board of directors to global fintech, gaming, ecommerce, and SaaS companies. Advisory included: competitor/customer analysis, global product strategy, organization of 3rd party off-shore software development teams, site optimization including UX/UI strategy and design, localization and payment strategies, supply chain and vendor relationship development, global fulfillment and distribution, service and technology partnership alliances, go-to market sales strategies and best practices that enabled rapid scaling and sales discipline in forecasting, client success initiatives, and processes for on-boarding and training sales and providing ongoing support to maximize success and minimize “time to productivity”.

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  Rimage Corporation

  • Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Vice President

    • 2015 - 2016
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In September 2015, Rimage (www.rimage.com) acquired CustomCD from me. Founded in 1978, Rimage is a pioneer and innovator in CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc™ on-demand digital publishing, duplication and production technology. Integrated CustomCD services into what is now Rimage Fulfillment Services.

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  Custom CD, Inc.

  • greater minneapolis-st. paul area

  • Owner/President

    • 2013 - 2015
    • greater minneapolis-st. paul area

    On September 30, 2013 I acquired CustomCD from Digital River. Since, CustomCD, Inc. has been operated as a legal entity completely separate from Digital River. Directed all sales, partnership, service, product management, and development activities globally.CustomCD, a technology company, is the world’s leading provider of turnkey and SaaS solutions that enable fulfillment of fully-personalized on-demand media products. CustomCD creates end-to-end solutions for various vertical industries, such as download software and games, online photo and video services, hosted email providers, employee development and training, music, education, movies, and entertainment. CustomCD serves customers worldwide out of fulfillment and manufacturing centers in Europe and USA and maintaining a dedicated development team in Kharkov, Ukraine.

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  Digital River

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Vice President & General Manager, CustomCD and CustomCD GmbH

    • 2008 - 2013

    CustomCD, a technology company, is the world’s leading provider of turnkey and SaaS solutions that enable fulfillment of fully-personalized on-demand media products. CustomCD creates end-to-end solutions for various vertical industries, such as download software and games, online photo and video services, hosted email providers, employee development and training, and movie and entertainment. Serving customers worldwide, CustomCD maintains fulfillment centers in Europe and the USA and a development team in Kharkov, Ukraine. CustomCD is owned by Digital River, Inc., (Nasdaq: DRIV), the world’s largest provider of ecommerce services for the computer software and games industries.

  • Group Vice President of Global Sales, GlobalDirect

    • 2008 - 2010

    Directed all new client sales activities on a global basis for Digital River's SMB commerce platforms and CustomCD business unit in three specific verticals: eCommerce for SMB software and game publishers, eCommerce for non-software markets, and Digital River's on-demand media solutions. Digital River, Inc., (Nasdaq: DRIV), is the world’s largest provider of ecommerce services for the computer software and games industries.

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  The Goodprinter

  • Owner/President

    • 1995 - 2007

    Marketing, design, packaging engineering/production, and print services to the world's leading medical device manufacturers.

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  Rayovac

  • National Sales Manager - Electronics

    • 1991 - 1995

    Business development within channel including all major electronic distributors and retailers in North America and Latin America. Category and brand strategy incorporating product development, advertising, merchandising, channel analysis, and pricing.