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📖 Summary

Accomplished leader with domestic and international experience in operations. Excels in evaluating client requirements, and delivering strategic solutions to complex sales environments. Exceptional ability to identify strengths and weaknesses of business processes and realize sales revenues-even in sluggish market conditions. Tendency to thrive in dynamic and fluid environments while remaining pragmatic and focused. Highly creative with excellent abilities in the complex and technical field of spatial geometry and surface definition and an innovative developer of specialized manufacturing processes. Core competencies include: Strategic Business Planning • Team Management Market Identification • Change Management • Operations Management Product Management • Technology Development • Accomplished SpokespersonEastern Regional Sales Manager @ Champion all aspects of sales, business development, relationship building and revenue generation for the Eastern seaboard territory, from Maine to Florida and Mississippi to Western PA/Ohio. Responsible for the performance and support of 10 dealer/distributors covering 17 states that make up the Eastern seaboard for Amada Machine Tools America Inc. Responsible for 3 to 5 mil annual in sales. Abilities include; • Identify dealers and conduct training on the Amada product line • Identify markets within dealer territories to promote Amada products • Effectively present and sell solutions to prospective customers • Work independently to achieve sales goals for the territory • Support dealers and customers needs to leverage Amada products in markets • Sell turnkeys with automation and critical run offs to end-users • Develop effect marketing and sales plans for regional and national territories • Coordinate and implement plans for dealer open house events and regional machine tool shows • Effectively network within distributor/dealer organizations • Established relationships with 3rd party suppliers for, Automation, CAM, Fixtures, Cutting Tools etc. Excellent rapport in relationship building with customers, dealers and support personnel. Experienced in developing a plan, articulation, and follow through to implementation. Strong communication skills with the ability to address and present to a large group of people. Proficient in MS Office Suite, ACT, SalesForce, CRM and database management systems. From October 2010 to Present (5 years 3 months) Eastern Regional Sales Manager @ Eastern Regional Sales Manager Key achievements: • Re-establish distributor network with-in the specified territory resulting in 2.8 mil sales for 2005 • 2006 sales - 3.2 mil, 2007 – 4.6 mil, 2008 – 3.7 mil • Increased technical support and application engineering to the distributor network allowing greater opportunities to quote. • Increased the availability of product by pre-ordering equipment that best matched projected customer needs. • Establish weekly and monthly feed back channels for prompt support for dealers. • Established East Coast Tech Center and setup technical workshops. • Secured repeat customers in the Power Generation and Turbomachinery markets. From January 2004 to October 2010 (6 years 10 months) Kevin Gadde is skilled in: 5-Axis machine tools, Automation for machine tools, Automated single and twin spindle lathes, Surface and profile grinding, International Sales, Engineering, Key Account Management, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing, Sales, Purchasing, Sales Management, Process Improvement, Pricing, Product Development