KENNETH MARK OCHETTI
*** ******* **. ******* *****, Calif
949-***-**** **********@*****.***
Professional Summery
I have extensive experience selling, promoting, marketing and managing new
business products and companies. I have many contacts throughout the USA,
Canada and Mexico with independent retailers, chain accounts and distribution
companies.
Myka Cellars -
3/2018 to 06/01/2023
Sales Director
Director in a wine importer and distribution company in California. Qe sold several domestic California Wines from our winery. I managed 4 outside sales people and also sold direct to retail chains and big box chain accounts. Company closed during Covid due to closure of Restaurants.
Csl Bev Imports
8/2012 to 2/2018
Owner of a wine distribution company in Orange, California. We featured wines from Italy, Australia and several wines frim California. I managed 6 outside sales people and sold to both on-premise and off-premuse accounts. We gas over 400 active accounts.
Viking Glacier Spirits –
5/2005 to 7/2011
Sales Manager
Directed and sold an Award Winning Vodka called IS Vodka in California, Arizona and Nevada. I managed 8 sales people while also being the lead sales person to major chains throughout the Western States. Handled trade shows, budgets, advertising and marketing plans. Is Vodka sold to an international group in 2013.
USA Tobacco/Prime Time –
7/1998 to 3/2004
West Coast Sales Director
Helped to develop market and made direct sales for an innovative flavored small cigar displayed in a plastic tube. The company went from 200 retail stores in 1998 to over 100,000 locations in the USA, Canada and Mexico. I opened up top chains like Circle K, AM- Pm, Costco and retail chains in Canada.
I also managed several Convenience stores.
College
Cypress Collage
Arizona State University