Sales Assistant

Karen Page Kupfer

Strengths: Organizational Skills, Critical Thinking, Marketing

Fundamentals, Big Picture Ramifications, Bottom Line Results

Experience:

. FreeHand Music, Inc - Director, Corp Secretary/Treasurer, Exec.

Assistant to CEO -1+ years. 2009 to present. Consultant, assisting CEO

with travel, administrative oversight, scheduling and meeting

preparation.

. FreeHand Systems International, Inc - VP, Secretary/Treasurer - 8

years 2001 to 2009. Responsibilities included founding documentation,

establishing administrative and operations procedures, state

compliance, and development of back office policies and procedures.

Executive Assistant to CEO, Corporate Secretary and legal liaison.

. KAL Equity Group, Ltd. (investment banker) and KAL Equity Capital Fund

LLC - Corporate Secretary / Exec. Assistant to CEO -15 years 1995 to

2010. Established the operating procedures and prepared the founding

documents (consistent with state compliance), prepared contracts,

assisted CEO in all facets of his position, managed financial records,

legal liaison. (Held positions simultaneously over last 15 yrs.)

. IDI -VP Marketing - 3 yrs. 1992 to1995. Responsibilities in both

operations and sales with a publicly held direct mail manufacturer.

Experienced in fundamentals of Chapter 11 Reorganization.

Streamlined procedures to increase productivity and increased sales

by more than 40% in 1 years.

. NAC, West -VP Sales - 3 yrs. 1985 to 1992. At the largest direct mail

production companies in the U.S, at its newly acquired west cost

facility, increased client base by more than 50% in 2 years, increased

sales by more than 300%, established procedures for Sales, Sales

Support, Estimating and Change Orders and developed a West Coast sales

team

. DMCA -VP Operations - 4 yrs. 1981 to 1985. At the oldest direct

marketing agency in LA, responsible for Account Management,

Telemarketing and Purchasing/print production ($50million budget).

Improved procedures, upgraded staff, increased client retention by

nearly 30% and deliverables to clients by 50%.

. Carte Blanche (Citicorp subsidiary). Manager, Merchant Services - 1

yrs. 1980 to 1981. Both operations and marketing. Managed staff,

reduced write offs from customer charge backs, improving the bottom

line by more than $300,000 per month, totally reorganized & upgraded

staffing and procedures in department of 35.

Expertise includes: Operations, SEC Regulations and Compliance and

investor/shareholder relations (in the public arena), marketing, executive

assistant to CEO. Experienced telecommuter/satellite office and work well

with wide variety of staff.

Education: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Post graduate /Early

Childhood Teaching Credential

California State University Los Angeles

MBA coursework, Pepperdine University

References: Available upon request

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