Corporate Business Development Consultant

Chris is a Marketing Executive with high degree of technical knowledge and extensive background in Marketing Operations and Services with P&L responsibility. Chris' International business experience offers significant benefit to employers seeking relationships with Japanese, European and Taiwanese corporations. His achievements are impressive:

• Consultant to Major Global Companies on creation of "leading edge" computer peripheral products 
• Domestic and International Top Management Business Connections
•  Uncovering R & D technologies for investment or purchase
•  Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Properties
•  Created 3rd Party Marketplace for Products
•  E-commerce Solutions and Business Portals
•  Increasing Inventory Turnover Ratios
•  Data Warehousing and Mining
•  Improving cash flow and ROI
•  Sales Force Automation
•  Technologist
•  Lecturer

1984  1999 PANASONIC COMMUNICATIONS & SYSTEMS CO.
A Division of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Secaucus, NJ

Fifteen Years of International experience working for the 13^th largest Corporation in the World.

•  Created and managed the product development of a new peripheral lines. Ten fold increase in monitor sales advancing from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 in less than three years. [This represented an increase of market share from 0.01% to 6.7%]
• Creating the PanaMedia^TM and PanaFlat^TM Trade Marks
•  Developing Engineering Specifications for CRT & LCD monitors, projector, and printer products.
•  Negotiated Factory Engineering Specifications in Japan and Taiwan with 3rd party contractors.
•  Writing white papers on new peripheral technologies.
•  Developing new channels of distribution penetrating the government and clone PC market segments.
•  Creating ad concepts which resulted in winning Starch Award for advertising.
•  Building strong business 3rd party relationships with manufacturing, sales and legal personnel.
•  Trade speaker and lecturer to senior management, sales forces, customers, press and trade shows attendees.
•  Public Relations and Key media contact at all trade shows where products were being displayed or  introduced.
•  Supporting sales forces with personal selling and by working closely with the Training Departments.
•  Training and supervising Factory Product Specialists and Engineers in manufacturing procedures.
•  Tracking U.S. market dynamics and trends with improved competitive information generated
•  Quality Control Engineering

Credentials:

• Academics:  New York University, College of Engineering, Montclair State University, Bergen Community College, County College of Morris
• Member of VESA, Video Electronics Standards Association.
• Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., Computer Society Affiliate
• Member of the Association of Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH.

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