Senior Sales Leader | Regional Strategy Execution | Cross Cultural Sales | Experienced Sales Coach | Customer Delight Officer | Building Start-up business

Close to 30 years of successfully leading regional sales team for US MNCs, with proven ability in coaching & motivating teams to drive growth. Extensive experience in growing greenfield markets, driving new technology adoption, in leading sales & marketing teams to execute short-term strategy to meet company targets, and long-term strategy to fuel growth. Ability to developed direct; close business relationships with ‘C’ level positions & deliver solutions to meet each stakeholder’s need.

Before forming VALES Photonics, was the SVP Sales & Marketing (with Marketing, Sales & Application Engineering reports) at DenseLight Semiconductors, driving InP light source solutions (SLED, SOA, CW Lasers, Gain Chips) into Sensing & Datacom marketing, wining designs at global telecom & sensing customers. Let the InP / SiP integration program.

2008 to 2026: Regional Sales Director @ CREE Inc
1987 to 2008: Sales, Marketing, Country manager position @ HP/Agilent/Avago