Greater Chicago Area
Please feel free to connect directly with me on LinkedIn at the following e-mail address - [email protected] Senior sales and marketing executive with a long standing track record of P&L successes as well as possessing proven leadership skills in the integrated multi channel direct marketing, printing, mailing, shipping and logistics industries.I have served as a principal negotiator in mergers and acquisitions, owned businesses, and have been an extremely successful architect of go to market strategies and distribution channels for a vast array of products and services. I have consistently increased profit margins and market share, and possess a comprehensive knowledge base related to new business development, organic business growth, and customer retention strategies. A recognized industry leader, I have been a national motivational and subject matter expert speaker. Exceptional interpersonal skills have been a key to my building trusting relationships, which have been a catalyst to my ability to drive profitable business achievements through innovative and proactive sales and marketing initiatives.
Back to where it all started for me. This is the 3rd time in my career that I have the great pleasure and opportunity to represent Pitney Bowes in the Northern Illinois marketplace. The 1st 2 times, were as a direct employee, 15+ years apart, for PB. This time I am pleased to announce that Pitney Bowes has entrusted to us the country's 3rd largest marketplace in the form of the 1st Northern Illinois Pitney Bowes Business Partner. .As an authorized PB Business Partner we have the ability to provide the entire product lines of Pitney Bowes. We also are able to provide service to all of their solutions as well as offer the complete line of supplies that PB has in their direct portfolio. We are thrilled to have joined the other 50 =/- Pitney Bowes Business Partners from around the country. We serve as an aggressive alternative to companies who are in search of the absolute best in class Software and Hardware solutions in the industry. These companies would also be in search of more of a local personable, flexible, company that has an absolute commitment to providing outstanding Customer Satisfaction to them as our top priority.
As part of an Overall Strategy of leveraging my 25+ years of being a "Trusted Adviser" to many companies around the world I wanted to add the Office Technology & IT Solutions space to my portfolio. The Ricoh Family Group Dealer Image Systems & Business Solutions is the longest tenured Ricoh Family Group Dealer in Illinois. In addition to the myriad of Innovative Ricoh / Savin product offerings, we also are armed with a strong portfolio of IT Solutions, including but not limited to, Business Continuity, Ransomware Avoidance, Dark Web Combative, and Work Flow Process Automation solutions. As part of my "Trusted Adviser" existence I can go deeper and wider with all of my clients, prospects and suspects to provide them with strategic planning, project management, and solutions deployment across a multitude of departments within their organization
Parcel Prophet Solutions (formerly TAN & Associates) has been a Trusted Adviser Company to C-Suite Leaders in the E-Commerce, Mailing, Shipping, Fulfillment, Direct Marketing, and Office Technology industries for over 25 years. Over the years we have partnered with organisations such as, Pitney Bowes, The Walt Disney Co., Neopost (now Quadient) Dealer Group, FP-USA Corporate, USPS, 3M, RR Donnelley, DHL E-Commerce, Digital Shipper, The OnShip Group, UPS, FedEx, OSM, Cloud 9, Ricoh Family Group, Belco Mfg, MAC Automation and many others. We have a highly respected reputation of providing high level, high ROI strategic plans and programs backed by innovative software and hardware solutions when/as needed.
As a Senior Strategic Advisor I report directly to the CEO of RCK Holdings. In this role I advise and assist in the creation and development of the Strategic Vision for all 3 companies (Contract Packaging Associates Inc., Pack-All LLC, Medex Merchandising) held in this portfolio. My leadership responsibilities include, but are not limited to, P&L accountability, Budget creation, implementation of all agreed upon strategies with a strong emphasis on the Sales Leadership aspects of the companies. During my tenure here I have served in the role of President for one of the companies, as well as Vice-President of another. Both of these deployments were at the request of the CEO. During these deployments I maintained, and still maintain my role as a Senior Strategic Advisor to the companies as a whole.
In my current role I have been chartered with the building of Business Relationships throughout the USA. I am involved in the understanding of businesses at their core level, as it relates to their Marketing, Direct Marketing, Fulfillment & Logistics initiatives and operations, and providing them with highly impactful ROI value added integrated solutions. I am engaged with organizatons of all sizes.small privately held companies such as Glentronics Large Publicly traded organizations like the Merrill Corporation, renowned educational Institutuions, for example Northwestern University, as well as Non-Profit Organization''s including The American Bar. Utilzing OneTouchPoint's tremendous National Foot Print and armed with a myriad of Best in Class Service and Product Platforms allows me to deliver highly successful Integrated Solutions to my clients on a daily basis.