DIRECTOR/ SALES STRATEGIST/ DISTRIBUTION HEAD/ STRATEGIC LEADER OBJECTIVE: Strategic Market Planning and Execution - Customer Relationship Management - Multi-Channel Distribution - Customer Acquisition & Retention - Merchandising Promotion - Sales Training & Team Leadership - New Product Design & Development - Lead Generation - CRM Philosophy - New Business Ventures – Strategic Direction – Sales and Marketing – Change Agent – Market penetration and Revenue Generation – Entrepreneurial Spirit – Performance and Results Orientated – Operations Management – Integral Contributor to Growth and Profitability - Software as a Service (SaaS) - Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Innovative, results proven, senior professional with significant experience building, growing and transforming businesses into highly productive and profitable operations. Expertise in sales and marketing, financial management and operation oversights for regional, national and international business units. Change agent adept at contributing to post merger integration efforts. Highly effective leader with demonstrated ability to successfully manage teams, motivational management style, meet large scale deliverables and ensure enterprise success with a proven history of building, guiding and retaining high-performance teams to develop and implement strategies for accelerated growth. Regarded for entrepreneurial approach, honesty, integrity, stewardship and highly ethical standards. Enterprising, extroverted and customer-focused leader with a natural ability for building new business and forging loyalty with clients, vendors and external business partners. Identifies and capitalizes on emerging business ventures to propel an organization to the top-tier of its industry. Strives to optimize operations, reduce costs and improve service quality while strengthening the bottom-line. Leadership - Talented sales and distribution strategist and tactician offering thought leadership, strategic advice, and insights for market differentiation, competitive advantage, and go-to market strategies using best in class tools and processes. Extensive experience in a fast paced, highly competitive industries, assuming key roles in various organisations, to an ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, a strong network and an ability to analyse and interpret financial and other numbers for growth development and transition. Implement efficiencies to increase productivity, to increase revenue, to decrease cost and to reduce risk. Business Development - Drive market enthusiasm through communications, presentations, developing businesses and of delivery of strategic projects. Initiating of projects and following these through from planning, design, execution and ongoing analysis. Utilising my knowledge of various bits of insurance and investment industry legislation and regulations, embracing general business management principles and practices, industry body associations and platforms to develop, expand and market consulting offerings.