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I am an experienced business development manager with success in a variety of industries ranging from Foreign Exchange to IT and Telecommunications. In a sales career spanning over 20 years I've been a top performer in all my roles. I genuinely enjoy sales and the process of prospecting and building relationships. Until recently I have always concentrated...

I am an experienced business development manager with success in a variety of industries ranging from Foreign Exchange to IT and Telecommunications. In a sales career spanning over 20 years I've been a top performer in all my roles. I genuinely enjoy sales and the process of prospecting and building relationships. Until recently I have always concentrated on new business roles and have had exposure to many industries and products. My sales career started with door to door sales selling Optus Long Distance Services, I've had the pleasure of two years spent purely telemarketing and since 1999 I've been involved in corporate sales. I have also been lucky enough to spend over a year travelling through SE Asia, Snowboarding in Japan and exploring Europe in 2009/2010. Specialties: New Business Development, Relationship Building, Networking, Lead and Opportunity Generation in the Foreign Exchange, IT and Industrial markets.Business Development Manager @ Interactive are the leading 3rd party provider of critical hardware maintenance, managed services and data centre services in Australia. My role specialises in new business development as well as Enterprise Account Management across a range of industries. Recently I have also started managing the State Government vertical for the business. We provide a variety of services include hardware maintenance, DR, Co-Lo and Managed Services (IaaS). I've spent a lot of time increasing my knowledge and customer base in the IaaS space and have been a leader in this area. I've made the Managing Directors club in each of my first three years (exceeding 140% of target) and am on track to qualify in 2014. I've built a great portfolio of some of Melbourne's largest businesses in both the Data Centre and Managed Services space and am now looking forward to growing the government space for the company. From June 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaBDM @ I worked in the Commercial FX Division over a five year period and was extremely successful in a new business role. This culminated in making the Presidents Club in 2008 in Monaco and being the number two rep globally. The role at Travelex was a pure business development role and involved identifying, contacting and managing the sales process for new customers. These customers would then transition to the dealing desk over a six to twelve month period. It was important to be extremely consistent with all aspects of prospecting to ensure that targets were continually met. From 2004 to 2009 (5 years) Melbourne Area, AustraliaBDM @ I worked for this small production and advertising business for almost two years. Lifestyle Media specialised in the production of lifestyle programming for the over 50 market and my role involved finding businesses to be featured within the programming. These features were then wrapped up wth marketing and advertising campaigns in the form of 30 second TVC's. The company unfortunately went into administration even though I overachieved against all my targets. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Melbourne Area, AustraliaGeography, Business Studies, Economics @ Ivybridge Community College From 1987 to 1994 Ben Ladkin is skilled in: FX, Data Center, Solution Selling, New Business Development, Account Management, Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Negotiation, Customer Relations, Business Continuity, Consultative Selling, Disaster Recovery, Sales Process, Direct Sales, Cold Calling