SUMMARY OF QUALFICATIONS
Entrepreneurial executive with more than 12 years of experience, managing
sales, marketing and operations personnel at the district, regional and
corporate level for both start-up and established companies. Motivational
management style with a record of building and retaining highly motivated
sales teams, distributor networks and support staff. Unbeaten in
identifying new opportunities for accelerated growth and providing a
strategy for achievement, successful senior level Management executive with
proven ability to drive and sustain corporate revenues through broad-based
competencies in:
. Sales/Marketing staff Management
. New Business Development
. Strategic Partnership
. Key Employee Management / Retention
. Presentations and Training
. Contract Price Negotiation
. Organization Building
. Budgeting and Expense Control
. Staff Development and Motivation
.
o Develop and implement short and long term strategic sales and business
plans.
o Build and manage strong international sales organizations, including
development and implementation of compensation and incentive programs.
o Provide leadership and innovation in key account development,
management and expansion, consistently broadening customer base and
channels of product distribution.
o Skilled in senior level presentations, negotiations and relationship
building.
o Acknowledged by senior management for exceptional staff development,
motivation and team building.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
IntelliSource Markets, Hollywood Fl
12/04 to Present
Managing Director
IntelliSource Markets is a Market Maker in Forex trading Arena. Where the
company offers live interbank prices to trade OTC Forex markets to money
managers, CTA' s and individual traders worldwide.
Responsibilities:
. Charged with growing and managing IS Markets sales team of 25 sales
executives as well as developing an international sales and business
development group. Reported directly to the CEO.
. Charged with the development and launch of partnership between
IntelliSoure Markets and direct marketing partners FX Market Makers
and ( IB) introducing brokers, and Banks worldwide. Areas of focus
include launching new FX Technology and customer care systems,
integration of customer service call centers and field operations in
addition to new program launches.
. Established strategic partnerships with FX technology companies such
Meta Trader, Boston Technologies, One Zero technology resulting in
increased revenue and profitability by opening alternative means of
providing faster services API to institutional clients. Resulting in
40 % increased revenue from all institutional trades.
. Established accounts with major banks in Latin America and Europe. By
providing a While Label solutions. Where the banks utilized
IntelliSource FX Technology, therefore increasing the banks and IS
markets revenues.
. Developed strategic partnerships with Prime Brokers, such as Currenex,
Saxo bank, CMS, CitiFX
To create one API for a best bid/offer flow. All of the alliance
partners were connected to IntelliSource Markets back office through
one bridge and created one flow for the dealing desk. Oversaw the
technical aspect of the project, negotiated contracts, prices and
maintained a strong close relationship with all of the partners on
monthly basis.
. Drove strategic initiatives across highly matrix organizations,
including partnering with management teams to ensure proper resources
allocated to client needs. Built consensus and coordinated cross-
functional business units both internally and externally, leveraging
and maximizing program opportunities
. Responsible for Hiring, training, and motivating top sales performers,
using strategic incentive and bonus plan.
. Directed sales planning and market analysis activities, including
market research, competitive product evaluation and selling
techniques.
. Calculate forecasts from monthly pipeline reports reflecting new
opportunities and vulnerabilities.
. In charge of creating strategic partnerships with banks in Latin
America, and Eastern Europe.
. Structured and negotiated pricing, volume discounts, co-op advertising
with alliance partners on different premium promotions.
. In charge of companies online advertising budget. Dealt with Online
marketing campaigns. Maintaining and checked reports of companies
SEO results, and results of hit ratios on monthly basis. Improved
companies marketing strategies via online.
ActForex, New York, NY 03/02-10/04
www.actforex.com
V.P of Business Development
ActForex delivers Internet-based Forex financial currency trading software
platforms, with fully hosted production capabilities. The software products
are developed in close collaboration with active dealers and banking
experts.
. Responsible for the expansion of ActForex's On-line Trading platform
within the corporate and (Forex Markets Makers) arenas.
. Managed sales team of 5 sales executives.
. Duties include the servicing of existing clients and the constant
pursuit of new
customers in domestic and international Foreign Exchange
markets.
. Performing Demo presentations, to various Markets Makers, Banks, and
Introducing brokers. Attended Expos, in U.S and Europe.
. Developed and negotiated large corporate broker relationships in North
America, Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.
. Successfully marketed comprehensive trading products to money
managers, hedge funds, CTA's and Fcm's
. Created alliances / partnerships between Actforex and international
banks, dealers and various clearing houses; delivered presentations
of on-line trading platform via net meeting.
. Established a partnership between Actforex and Saxo Bank, where
Actforex will provide customers fully integrated executable prices via
its software.
. Areas of expertise include: Spot and Forward Currency markets, Foreign
Exchange credit lines, On-line live trading systems, Currency payment
procedures, Profit and Loss calculations and all aspects of currency
speculation.
M.I.N.A Consulting, New York, NY 12/97-
1/02
Managing Partner
Intellisource provides Information Technology consulting services to
various Fortune 500 and 1000 companies.
. Started entrepreneurial career as a partner in a sales oriented
Information Technology firm.
. Responsible for the development and implementation of a new recruiting
division and a marketing department.
. Grossed over $1.6 million dollars in sales in the first year of
business and increased revenues by over 200% in the next 3 years, over
60 consultants on staff.
. Created new relationships with various Fortune 500 companies.
. Successfully opened accounts and placed the company onto vendor's
lists with Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Double Click,
Spear Leads and Kellogg, Bear Sterns, and other financial companies.
. Duties ranged from pure sales and business development to competitive
analysis, strategic planning and pricing structure development.
. Managed entire RFP response process.
. Lead a team of 5 account managers and oversaw dozens of Fortune 500
account relationships.
. Hired, trained, and managed all sales reps and recruiters.
. Acted as a liaison between clients and recruiters
. Implemented entire computer system and management protocol, Initiated
Web, E-mail, and Network services for the firm.
WDP, New York, NY
Recruiter/Business Development Manager 06/95-11/97
WDP provides high-level IT Professionals to various Financial firms, on a
full time or consulting basis.
Responsibilities as a Business Developer:
. Initiated relationships with new clients.
. Enhanced WDP presence within existing accounts
. Oversaw active day-to-day/direct marketing for the consultants within
new and existing client accounts.
. Gathered technical requirements from the clients in order to fulfill
job openings.
. Developed relationships with new sub-vendors and maintained and
enhanced relationships with existing sub-vendors.
. Recruited highly motivated IT Professionals to meet the requirements
of the clients.
. Evaluated suitability of potential consultants on their technical
skills as well as their verbal and written communication skills and
professional references.
Concepts in Staffing, New York, NY 02/94-
05/95
Recruiter
Concepts in Staffing provides all levels of full time and consulting
professionals to a wide variety of firms in the Financial, Insurance,
Accounting, Advertising, and Information Technology markets.
. Managed entire recruiting and sales process for full time and contract-
to-hire IT and engineering professionals.
. Responsible for cultivating and managing client relationships to
obtain staffing assignments locally and nationally.
. Utilized all available resources for sourcing candidates such as the
internal database, internet job sites (both fee and non fee), cold
calling and various recruiting practices used by search firms.
. Interviewed, qualified, reference checked pre-screened and prepared
candidates for hiring managers.
. Negotiated salaries and client bill rates.
Lehman Brothers, New York, NY 11/92-12/93
Programmer/Analyst
Responsible for the implementation of a Bond Trade Market System.
. Participated in the design and implementation of Bond Trade Market
System to provide management of the Bond Clearing Process by
using on-line update and inquiry systems.
. Designed and implemented the following screens as part of the Bond
Clearing Subsystem: Clear Trades, Reset Fail, Print Clear Report,
Customer Clearing Inquiry and Withhold Trades.
. Generated various types of reports such as Trades Withheld Report,
Customer Detail Report, and Daily Clearing Report.
Environment: COBOLII, CICS, DB2, VSAM
Merrill Lynch, Somerset, NJ 02/90-10/92
Programmer/Analyst
. Responsible for support and implementation of BOSS System.
. Branch Office Security System was designed to protect Merrill Lynch's
information resources. BOSS provides complete and accurate information
on each user and controls what transactions and services any user can
access.
. Involved in system analysis and documentation.
. Responsible for creation and implementation of JCL.
Environment: COBOLII, CICS, DB2, VSAM
Education: B.S. in Business Organization, Nyack College