Sales Manager

Jin Wook (Brian) Yang

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Mobile : 305-***-**** Email : *****.*****@*****.***

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Brian is a versatile natural born leader with a global vision. Well

travelled executive with extensive international professional experience on

all seven continents. Core competencies that best describe Brian include;

loyal, trust-worthy, committed, a mediator and excellent negotiator,

ownership- takes full responsibility for his role and the organization,

excellent communicator and team motivator, a change agent with the ability

to influence change. LGE recognized Brian as a High Performance Executive

due to his outstanding record of achievements.

Trilingual: English, Korean, French Process Improvement

Conversational Spanish and Japanese Market Penetration

Lead Cross Functional Teams Excellent Analytical Skills

Organizational Development Training And Development

Customer Relationship Management Change Management

"What impresses me about Brian beyond his uncanny business acumen, and

ability to "get it" - is his ability to bring out the best in others. Those

that work with and for him are fiercely loyal."

Kyung Hoon Byun, CEO of SCA Region, LG Electronics Inc.

EDUCATION

MBA (Master in Business Administration), 1995

Concentration in Management

Fordham University, New York

Graduate School of Business

Member of the International Student Society

Republic of Korean Army, 1993

Military Intelligence

Defense Security Command

Specialize in Analytical Skills

Bachelors of Science in Economics, 1991

Towson University, Maryland

Captain of men's tennis team with scholarship, NCAA division 1

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Black Belt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LG Electronics Inc. Miami Office 2006 - 2011

March.

President / GM, Central and South America

Miami, FL

. Oversaw day-to-day management of regional sales force and distributor

network.

. Lead optimal organizational structure, staffing levels, training and

development.

. Integrate production planning, customer service and logistics teams

ensuring commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

. Achieve growth by implementing unique product, channel and promotion

strategies. Recruit, train, manage and motivate high performance sales

and customer-driven operations teams.

. Restructured and strengthen organization's core value by transforming the

office to a team task oriented environment rather than individual.

. Presented Office's vision and detailed short term and long term goals to

guide corporate directions.

. Motivated employees to perform at their maximum capacity by scheduled

group open communication and constant individual coaching sessions to

make employees to escape from their comfort zone.

. Omitted unnecessary tasks by implementing six sigma skills for harmonized

process improvement.

. Focused on "Sell-Out" data rather than "Sell-In" for optimal inventory

control and stabilized sales forecast.

. Successfully launched a new B2B business team for Central America and

Caribbean, including new product offerings, multi-million dollar

contracts and technical support services.

. No.1 market share for optical products and LCD monitors.

. Lead a team composed of 40 direct reports with overall management of

financial, administrative sales, marketing, operations and human resource

areas.

. General Management and full P&L responsibility for the region under

direct report to the President of LGE Panama S.A.

. Managed over US $200 million dollar annual sales revenues.

LG Electronics Inc (Headquarters)

2003 - 2005

Senior Manager, Group Leader, Americas

Seoul, Korea

. Managed the Optical Storage Devices (CD-RW, DVD-W, etc) sales and

marketing for North and South America. Lead team of 15 executives with

annual sales revenue of $280 million dollars.

. Full P&L responsibility for the region with direct report to the VP of

Marketing Worldwide.

. Change agent for the entire team of 60

. Successfully launched product to leading key account retail stores in USA

including; BestBuy, Sams Club, and Circuit City. Future Shop and BestBuy

in Canada.

. Reached #1 market share in DVD-RW for the entire region.

Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc.

2001 - 2003

Branch Office Manager, Pan- European Region

Paris, France

. Set up and operated the European regional office for the world's leading

newly joint venture company for optical storage business. (Sales, Admin,

JIT, Technical SVC)

. Direct report to the Chief Marketing Officer and total annual sales

revenue of $200 million dollars.

. Awarded Best Vendor Awards by major leading manufacturers (HP, Dell,

Apple, Siemens, NEC)

LG Electronics European Operation

1998 - 2000

Product Manager

Paris, France

. Managed the Optical Storage Devices OEM sales in Europe for Global PC

manufactures including; Dell, HP, IBM, Apple, among others

. Responsible for annual sales revenues of $150 million dollars.

LG Electronics Inc (Headquarters)

1996 - 1997

Export Manager

Seoul, Korea

. Oversaw the sales and marketing function for the Worldwide Optical

Storage Devices sales through the Company's subsidiaries and branch

offices around the world.

. Responsible for the development and implementation of sales and marketing

strategies for each individual region on a global scale. Managed annual

sales revenues of $50 million dollars.

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