The convergence is happening! The Meetings, Events, and travel spaces are consolidating. At Lanyon, we are on the bleeding edge of this convergence. As thought leaders, we enable companies like Salesforce, Netsuite, Adobe, and Cisco throw the largest user facing events in North America. We enable organizations such as the SEIU, Gilead, and Wells Fargo to uncover both cost savings and new revenue streams in their strategic meetings programs. We offer industry leading products on both the supply and demand sides of the hospitality industry, bringing companies like Boeing, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft together with Sheraton, Hilton and Hyatt to define the market for transient travel, group bookings and engagements. Because at the end of the day...We are Better Together!
Enterprise Sales Executive @ Lanyon believes that when people come together amazing things happen, relationships are built and business gets done. This is why we have created the industry’s leading cloud-based software for managing corporate meetings, events and travel programs.
From a one-to-one sales meeting, employee training or a large flagship customer conference, Lanyon’s unmatched software and the data it provides helps thousands of organizations and hotels around the world to better engage their customers, reduce costs and grow revenue.
The proof of the results that we deliver is demonstrated by the customers that choose us, including over 80% of the Fortune 100, more than 10,000 small and medium businesses and over 100,000 hotels. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Sr. Sales Engineer @ ● Exceeded yearly direct Enterprise People and Asset Tracking software sales quota 2007(135%), 2008(122%), 2009(121%), 2010(108%), 2011(117%), 2012(101%).
● Top direct sales contributor 2007-2012.
● Exceeded $1MM quota in direct sales 2008-2012.
● Led teams that grew year-on-year direct sales revenue 22%(2010), 22%(2011), 20%(2012) while still outperforming personal quota.
● Prospected, sold and performed on-site implementations for Blue Chip customers such as General Dynamics, Sandisk, Palo Alto Networks, Harvard University, The Cleveland Indians, DRS Defense Technologies, Fender Guitars and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
● Leveraged relationships with ISP’s/COLO’s to take Jolly Enterprise solutions to the cloud and offer hosted solutions for Jolly customers.
● Directly led efforts to build partnerships with hardware vendors to allow Jolly Technologies to offer Super-VAR solution packages with hardware and software final mile solutions, while allowing Jolly Technologies to remain non-adversarial to channel partners.
● Sold Jolly Enterprise People and Asset Tracking software into diverse vertical markets such as Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Government, Education, Technology and Professional Sports(MLB, NFL, MLS, EPL).
● Assisted in planning, executing and performed at all pertinent industry trade shows (ASIS, ISC East/West, GovSec) 2007-2013.
● Interviewed, selected and trained all direct sales reps for Jolly Technologies 2010-2013.
● Nurtured Enterprise Software product from initial stages of engineering through pre-launch and initial market launch in May, 2007. From October 2006 to October 2013 (7 years 1 month) Co-Founder/VP Sales and Marketing @ ● Co-Founded $1 Million a year MPEG Hardware manufacturing firm along with 4 other
principals.
● Wrote business and marketing plans and shopped them to VC’s and Angel financiers to
obtain $250,000 in initial funding.
● Closed $1.3M deal with Fortune 10 firm within 9 months of incorporation.
● Created Corporate Identity, website, collateral documents and catalog.
● Supervised 5 member internationally based outside sales team.
● Served as direct liaison between customers and engineering.
● Created “bottom up” sales opportunities, by understanding customer requirements, and
asking engineering “what if?”
● Chose customers based on Mobius’ ability to provide custom solutions that would
maximize customer satisfaction and create revenue for Mobius.
● Simultaneously managed several customer projects for Bloomberg LLP, ESPN and NBC,
as well as internal projects such as prototyping, fabrication, assembly and QA.
● Created all build cost and engineering resource utilization budgets.
● Created multimedia presentations for outside customers, venture capital firms and for
internal meetings. From May 2001 to September 2006 (5 years 5 months) Sales Manger @ ● Worked with 37 worldwide dealers and 7 direct reps to exceed monthly sales quotas by 32% in 2000 and
36% in 2001.
● Sold Futuretel products directly into high profile accounts such as Cisco Systems, 3 COM,
Hewlett Packard and the US Navy.
● Traveled extensively worldwide, performed sales presentations, and trained resellers.
● Made decisions in regard to pricing and market placement of Futuretel products.
● Planned, coordinated and execute the Futuretel presence at the NAB, IBC, RAI and
Comdex trade shows(19982000).
● Learned how to sell FutureTel product to both technical and nontechnical
buyers.
● Learned both the practical and technical definitions of MPEG 1 and 2 video, as well as
applications of complimentary technology such as Satellite and IP transmission.
● Sourced, ordered parts and negotiated pricing on components, packaging and assembly
for all FutureTel products in a JIT inventory system.
● Supervised production employees.
● Learned both MRP and JIT inventory and ordering techniques.
● Directly hired and supervised both operations and production employees. From 1995 to 2001 (6 years)
Business Administration- Human Resource Mangement @ California State University-Chico From 1990 to 1994 Piedmont Hills Brian Bohn is skilled in: SaaS, Sales, Solution Selling, New Business Development, Account Management, Sales Management, Enterprise Software, Product Marketing, Product Management, Marketing Strategy, Channel Partners, Strategic Planning, Lead Generation, Business Strategy, Management
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