Building and leading highly successful sales organizations, managing distribution networks and growing market share are areas where David ***** excels. His broad skill set includes the ability to quickly evaluate and address gaps in the market, and create value-added solutions that meet customer needs and boost corporate revenue. Mr. ***** is a polished communicator and presenter with powerful relationship building, team leadership, business development, strategic planning, and tactical execution skills.

With a career record of success in understanding orthopedic surgical protocols, orthopedic implant design, operating room procedures and healthcare consulting, Mr. ***** brings a depth of experience and knowledge that encompasses startup, turnaround and growth environments in the healthcare and medical ***** space.

Mr. ***** successfully took a failing Zimmer surgical implant and instrument distributorship with sales of $310, 00 per year and turned it into a thriving organization with more than $8 million in annual revenue and a formidable 8-man sales force that consistently met or exceeded aggressive Zimmer sales quotas every single year for more than a decade.

He led his team to win the prestigious Zimmer Grand Slam Award an unprecedented, and still unsurpassed, 4 times in 16 years. The Grand Slam Award is the toughest company award to earn, and is only presented to teams that achieve 100% of sales quota in all Zimmer product divisions.

Throughout his career, Mr. ***** has leveraged his ability to recruit, train, motivate, coach and lead teams to top sales performance, and to develop some of the top sales associates in the company, some of whom have gone on to own their own successful distributorships and achieve top sales rankings with the company.

After selling the Zimmer distributorship in 1995, Mr. ***** began fielding consulting offers from companies that sought his expertise in vetting promising new technologies, identifying untapped markets, developing distribution networks, and creating sales training and compensation programs.

Mr. ***** worked with Inter-Link Health Services Corp, a Phoenix-based startup software development firm, as well as Summus, Inc. , and ***** , a WebMD competitor.

He also provided consulting services to SalesForce4Hire, LLC, identifying and recruiting investor-driven emerging orthopedic and spinal ***** companies seeking market entry. Affinergy, Inc. engaged Mr. ***** to assist them in identifying new markets and developing potential strategic alliances.

Early in his career, Mr. ***** worked with a startup industrial manufacturing company. In less than one year, he grew sales for that company from zero to more than $300, 00, and landed their first national account, with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Mr. ***** holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has completed numerous professional development and training courses.