Vic Sanchez - Background & Experience

  • Over fifteen year pan-European experience
  • Multinational companies
  • New, growth, declining and turn-around market situations
  • Wide range of industries and vertical markets
  • Excellent international skills; including German and Spanish

Multinational company experience

Hewlett Packard

  • European major accounts program
  • Product management

Silicon Graphics

  • Startup of European Commercial Server sales & marketing business
  • Strategic direct sales

Iomega

  • Vice President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East, Africa Operations
  • Indirect channel driven consumer removal storage technology

Autodesk

  • Vice President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East, Africa Operations
  • Indirect and direct channel driven design software technology

General Management skills & experiences

  • Direct and Indirect sales
  • Change management
  • Business and Market development
  • Marketing and Brand management
  • Managing general operations including Legal, HR, IT, Finance, Manufacturing
  • Developing clear and measurable vision, objectives, strategy and processes
  • Building motivated and effective teams
  • Developing and grounding country operations and subsidiaries
  • Introducing and bringing new products to market

Leadership Attributes

  • Able to attract, motivate, retain and develop top talent
  • Passion for execution and results
  • Well developed communication and influencing skills
  • Bias for action and sense of urgency
  • Uncompromising integrity and candor
  • Solid negotiation skills

Key Business Accomplishments

  • Consistently met or exceeded all targets and goals
  • Built extensive network of channel and sales resources throughout Europe
  • Rightsized operations into profitable centers of execution excellence
  • Simplified business models to allow clear prioritization and focus
  • Developed new and proximity markets
  • Built world-class management teams buttressed with top talent

Industries & vertical markets

  • Large Servers, PCs, peripherals
  • Entrerprise application software
  • Consumer electronics distribution and retail
  • Internet sales
  • B2B Software
  • General Manufacturing
  • Building and Construction
  • GIS

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