Joe S.

New Business Development | Results-based Advertising | SMB Acquisitions | Operating Company Management Interested in connecting with owners, innovative marketers, designers and entrepreneurs.

Greater Chicago Area

About

Business leader using art & design to provide beautiful brand story-telling • Growth-focused CEO • Customer-centric commercial leader • Seeking strength through innovation and inspiration

Experience

  • Business Development Executive at Point B Communications
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    Generate a Business Development engine for the company which will: - Grow awareness within targeted industries of the capabilities of Point B - Do appropriate outreach in order to discover needs with prospective clients - Propose solutions to discovered needs or guide them elsewhere if we cannot help - Convert leads to established clientele in accordance with the target conversion rate - Deliver on overall new business targets for the year

  • Managing Partner at Oak Tree Group LLC
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Seeking acquisitions in the tech-enabled services space in order to: • Shepherd businesses to reach new levels of growth • Provide investors with returns of 22%+ CAGR over a 5-7 year investment window • Find entrepreneurs who have built excellent businesses and help them realize their dream exits

  • President at SONNY+ASH
    Mar 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    Premier architectural, branding and product visualizations using renderings, virtual- and augmented-reality.

  • Commercial Excellence Director at PSG, a Dover company
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    - Improve commercial analytics and sales reporting capabilities - Drive Salesforce Effectiveness and Channel Management programs - Own and implement Strategic Pricing initiatives - Organize Commercial Operations processes, including customer set-up

  • Strategic Pricing Analyst at GE Healthcare
    Jul 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Changed company policy by providing full margin transparency to sales reps, resulting in increased margin regionally in Q4’14, and forecasted to be $2 million margin improvement year-over-year • Increased margin dollars by $517K in Q4’14 in the Computed Tomography (CT) business by working with Product Marketing Managers to eliminate unnecessary promotions • Implemented strategic pricing suggestions around product configuration offerings within the Nuclear Medicine portfolio, which resulted in $155K incremental margin in Q3’14 • Led quarterly pricing reviews for stakeholders of all Imaging products modalities in the US market