JOHN B. PRATHER

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**** ******** *****, ******, ** 60031

702-***-****

SUMMARY

Innovative and versatile management professional; results focused, entrepreneurial and practical with a rich history of success in cultivating channel and network sales, brand visibility, product evolution and achieving marketing and product goals. Throughout my 18 career, I have accomplished improvement initiatives and postured product portfolios and organizations for tactical growth in a vast array of vertical markets. I have an extensive passion and knowledge of the company products, a strong understanding of consumers and have firmly established proficient experience in Brand Marketing, solution sales, product development/management and high commercial awareness. I thrive on high pressure of strategic placement, where organizational improvements and portfolio diversification is necessary to drive sales and company performance. Being a progressive, energetic leader and mentor; has given me genuine pleasure to grow and transform high-potential staff into outstanding leaders.

SKILLS

Strategic Brand Management

Strategic Planning

P&L Management

Ops Process Improvement

Product Management

Prominent Markets

Campaign Management

Channel Management

Team Building/Leadership

Market Evolution/Development

Sales Management

Business Case Development

WORK EXPERIENCE

SUZOHAPP, Inc. 1743 S Linneman Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056

VP Product Solutions & Markets 10/2015 – 01/2017

Defined, Developed and Launched 10 new products in 180 days for Americas and Global alignment of organizations marketing and product team, annual revenue of $8.2 Million.

Owned Marketing and Product divisions annual budget, forecast, planning and execution of spend and revenue, 16% under budget and delivered above target revenue margins of 40%.

Created and Drove sales structure and Channel networks/communities through direct channels and strategic go to market partners, 6 times increase in Channel portfolio.

Developed and Measured CRM Sales Pipeline, increasing legacy product Revenue by 8% and establishing funnel of $32Million forecast, 85% annual increase of new retail product lines.

Crafted and launched Brand Strategy with marketing team for Americas and aligned with global portfolio for strategic campaigns, sales enablement, and company / product awareness.

AGT, Inc. 6845 Escondido St. Ste.103, Las Vegas, NV 89119

EVP/COO 09/2008 – 09/2015

Orchestrated inception of AGT developing the organization from startup to $4.25M in annual Sales & Service revenue with network and cloud based SCO, Kiosk and RCM solutions.

Spearheaded the company’s marketing, sales and product strategies of organization; developed Brand awareness and CRM for agile sales to retail, hospitality, banks and gaming.

Recruited, hired and trained 20 marketing, sales and engineering with top line revenue of 45% margin in sales and 85% employee retention for the organization.

Negotiated all contracts, saving $380K in marketing, product and engineering divisions.

Owned company P&L, developed new promotional campaign by bundling products, increasing sales revenue year over year by average of 38% and year-on-sales growth of $725K.

Glory Global Solutions 3333 Warrenville Rd #310, Lisle, IL 60532

Director of Product Management 10/1998 – 9/2008

Created and Executed Product and Brand Strategy for system based products to support global executive marketing and product management, improving overall sales target by 34%.

Established Business Development with channel and community partners, delivering brand management, product launch, advertising, marketing collateral and events with $1.7M budget.

Cultivated CRM Sales Pipeline to $26M annual customer forecast from previous $3M pipeline.

Managed Product Deployment and Support of core product solutions related to all System based product solutions, with $90M+ of product deployments.

Direct launch of 14 New Products completing patent, design, marketing strategy for product portfolio targeting retail, financial Institutions, Hospitality, Amusement and Gaming.

EDUCATION

SIUE (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville)

2001 BS

SWIC (South Western Illinois College)

2000 AA and AS

USN (United States Navy)

1998 Honorable Discharge-Interior Communications-2nd Class

1995 Navy ILARTS & FLOLS Advance Training

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