Sam Reese joined Miller Heiman as CEO in 2000, and has led the company to its position as the foremost thought leader and innovator in the strategy, process and skills that drive sales performance. During Sam's tenure, Miller Heiman has expanded product offerings and e-learning initiatives and amassed a global partner network of world-class sales consultants. In the process, he has built a culture that is passionate about achieving results for clients.

Sam has experience building sales organizations from the ground up at Fortune 500 companies such as Corporate Express and Kinko's. He has managed complex sales organizations with extremely large sales forces; developed new products and new distribution channels; leveraged technology to drive sales performance; integrated mergers and acquisitions; and dealt with highly complex sales effectiveness initiatives. Sam has worked in public companies as well as businesses backed by private equity and venture capital.

Sam has advised Fortune 500 company executives; delivered keynote addresses to multiple organizations and is frequently quoted in business journals throughout the world. He is co-author of Successful Global Account Management and The 7 Keys for Managing Strategic Accounts.

Calvin provides the leadership and strategic direction for Miller Heiman's financial affairs and accounting practices on a global basis.

Calvin's experience in international markets includes mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and finance and account management. Prior to joining Miller Heiman, Calvin was the CFO for NTT/Verio, a $300-million internet service provider. He also served as interim chief executive officer and led the integration of Verio into their new parent, NTT. Prior to Verio, he was the VP for finance for Nortel Networks. Calvin is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and has an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Damon Jones leads Miller Heiman's international growth initiatives, global sales operations, and public session growth. Since joining Miller Heiman in 1999 as vice president of international sales, Damon has developed an extensive network of partners and sales consultants worldwide to support rapid growth in the multi-national expansion of sales solutions. He also has been instrumental in establishing a strong international presence for Miller Heiman.

With over 25 years of industry experience covering all facets of business and sales management, Damon's involvement with Miller Heiman began while at Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance, where he implemented the Strategic Selling^® program as part of an innovative move to relationship marketing. During his tenure there, the company saw sales revenues double and sales expenditures cut in half. Damon's background includes account management, sales management, and group sales training management roles.

Tim Call brought to Miller Heiman impressive experience as a top-performing sales manager with a strong track record of sales leadership resulting in double and triple digit percentage increases in revenues. Tim's experience includes both B2B and B2C sales management in large company and startup environments. He maintains a proven record for closing large, complex deals and has a sound reputation for strong customer orientation.

As executive vice president of strategic accounts, Tim leads Miller Heiman's efforts and works with the sales vice presidents and sales consultants to develop stronger and more productive relationships with the company's large accounts. Tim received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of San Diego, California.

Bill Golder has extensive sales and sales operations experience working within complex, multi-channel, matrix management organizations. His primary expertise is leading business-to-business sales of professional services, as well as multi-unit operations management.

He has proven success in leading key change initiatives related to sales compensation, organizational realignment, sales optimization, training, product development, and operational improvement. His key strengths are in driving results, developing and implementing strategy, and managing and leading sales teams. Bill has a reputation for taking on tough assignments and successfully turning around difficult situations. 

As executive vice president of sales and marketing operations, Leigh is responsible for the overall direction, planning and leadership for national sales and marketing operations. Leigh has been with Miller Heiman since 2003 as director of Business Development and Sales. 

Leigh jumpstarted her sales and marketing career with Shell Oil Company. During her tenure with Shell, she held roles of increasing responsibility including territory sales, sales management, strategic planning and head of business development. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science & a Minor in Economic Theory from Texas A&M University.

Leonard Distaso is concurrently senior vice president and general counsel for Miller Heiman. He also serves as the Board’s corporate secretary and leads the Interactive Services and IT groups. He brings to this role more than 30 years experience in the high-tech industry, having been involved in engineering application development, information technology services, and marketing management and legal affairs.  Len has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT and a law degree from Santa Clara University. 

Prior to joining Miller Heiman, Tony Gower held the position of regional account director, managing Coca-Cola's business relationship with Burger King within EMEA. Leading an international team of 12 account executives, Tony was instrumental in driving the transition from classical sales techniques to strategic key account management within the business-to-business sales environment. Having trained with Miller Heiman, he ensures that each team member has been exposed to Miller Heiman's account management strategy, which is focused upon the adoption of a consultative, solution based sales approach.

Michael has a strong sales, marketing, sales management and general management background within consumer goods organizations, including Taubmans Paints, Pacific-Dunlop and Hanimex. His sales management experience includes running large national sales teams in Australia. He has lived and worked in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and has considerable facilitation experience from both his corporate and consulting careers. His professional consulting experience includes sales process training and personal development, as well as outplacement and recruitment. He also consults in the area of developing sales cultures for organizations.

Michael served with the Army in Asia and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra.

Bethany joined Miller Heiman as a sales consultant and won business from large manufacturing, electronics and services companies using the Miller Heiman Sales System. Her account development brought the largest single engagement to Miller Heiman to date. She later took on a sales vice president role leading independent sales consultants in the South Central Region.
 
Presently the vice president of client engagement, her more than 20 years experience in sales, management and consulting services enables her to effectively support and assist clients with better tracking, measurement and realization of results as a result of engaging with Miller Heiman. She also acts a key liaison between customers and the products team by validating customer needs that can drive improvements to Miller Heiman's existing and new product development efforts.

Jason Reed has over 15 years of successful business experience in sales leadership. As a sales executive in large corporations, Jason acquired considerable experience as a client partnering with sales consulting and training firms. Additionally, as a sales leader, he has worked through the rigors of aligning Sales, Marketing, and CRM efforts with selling cycles and, as a result, is familiar with both the challenges and opportunities facing large sales organizations.

He specializes in National and Global Account strategy, sales team development, channel sales, and selling methodology. Jason has extensive firsthand experience with value added selling initiatives, sales process, and sales operations. He has a reputation for taking a straightforward and practical approach to the diagnoses of sales challenges and the development of solutions. His real world approach is particularly effective when partnered with large matrix organizations.

Clark Owen's sales career includes having built four highly successful consultative sales organizations and developing business with Global 1000 companies. He turned around two stagnant organizations with ongoing revenue losses into record breaking earners in the second year and earned a reputation for leading several cultural turnarounds and creating highly competitive, winning organizations. Clark is known for his ability to attract, develop, and inspire high performing senior-level people.

As sales vice president for the Heartland Region, Clark is responsible for business development, account support, and funnel management for sales consultants in the region.

Rich Blakeman has a unique business background combining sales and marketing executive leadership with consulting assignments at senior levels of global industry-leading firms. He has proven himself successful at creating organic growth and differentiation for companies through their sales strategy and its execution. 

Rich's track record includes leading teams of cross-company sales leaders in developing and implementing enterprise models for strategic account management and sales effectiveness. He has advised on and personally led the deployment of sales processes and practices including compensation and incentives, benchmarking, global sales automation, value proposition development, account planning, executive sponsorship and training.

Elizabeth brings more than 20 years of high-level sales and marketing experience to Miller Heiman from the challenging telecommunications industry. She has led successful sales and marketing efforts at a number of companies including MFS International, Level 3 Communications, Focal Communications, and Progress Telecom.

She has a track record for enhancing sales performance through the implementation of Miller Heiman methodology. As a Miller Heiman client, she demonstrated success in improving sales productivity, increasing margins and motivating cross-functional teams to exceed company objectives.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Certificat de Français d'Economie from Universite de Paris.

As Miller Heiman's director of marketing and sales operations in the UK, Lynda Marston implements marketing strategies that support key sales channel objectives and is closely involved in the positioning and management of Miller Heiman's global presence. Lynda brought sixteen years of experience in operations and business management to her position in Miller Heiman.

In her current role, Lynda is responsible for the operational management of the Miller Heiman office in Milton Keynes, UK, including marketing, human resources and lead process management. Lynda began her career as a clinical nurse and later moved into senior hospital operations where she spent ten years with the National Health Service. Prior to joining Miller Heiman, Lynda's experience included 6 years in all aspects of marketing and marketing management with Beiersdorf, best known for Nivea lotion products.

Ian has a strong advertising and branding background. He worked with the major advertising agencies in Australia before he opened his own agency, Henderson Partners in 1988. Henderson Partners won awards in New York for the Reebok television commercials.

At Skills Farm, Ian headed up marketing and operations along with his sales and account management responsibility.  In his role as director of sales operations and marketing in Miller Heiman Asia Pacific, Ian will continue wearing his sales and account management hat, working with such strategic clients as Allianz and Agility Logistics.

Ian holds a Bachelor of Marketing degree from The University of New South Wales and a Diploma of Advertising/PR from Sydney Technology.