Meet the Sales Team Makeover Players

Sam Reese
President and Chief Executive Officer

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.

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Calvin Quan
Chief Financial Officer

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
President and Managing Director of International

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.

Elizabeth Vanneste
Chief Marketing Officer

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

Prior to joining Miller Heiman, Elizabeth was chief marketing officer for M5 networks where she was responsible for increasing lead generation and launching a national channel sales program.  Throughout her career she has demonstrated success in optimizing resources, managing cross-functional teams and improving productivity.

A Miller Heiman alumna early in her sales career, Elizabeth sponsored Miller Heiman programs at four different companies and served on the Miller Heiman Advisory Board.

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

Tim Call
Executive Vice President

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, 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 accounts. Tim received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of San Diego, California.

Bill Golder
Executive Vice President of Business Development

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. 

Leigh Hooker
Executive Vice President of Sales Operations

As executive vice president of sales operations, Leigh is responsible for the overall direction, planning and leadership for national sales 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 and a Minor in Economic Theory from Texas A&M University.

Leonard Distaso
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

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. 

Tony Gower
Sales Director, United Kingdom

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 Light
Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific

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 Schultz
Vice President of Client Engagement

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.

Roger Snow
Vice President of International Development

Roger is a results-oriented leader with more than 15 years experience in business analysis, strategic planning, performance measurement and overall sales and financial management. He joined Miller Heiman from Countrywide Financial Corporation, where he led the expansion of two major western U.S. markets, advancing his team to become the most prolific in the country.

Recognized for his ability to diagnose and overcome barriers to growth, Roger is known to implement organizational changes that result in increased productivity and revenues.

Roger holds an Executive Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado.

Jason Reed
Sales Vice President, Southeastern Region

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
Sales Vice President, Heartland Region

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.

Richard Blakeman
Sales Vice President, Western 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.

Susan Simon
Sales Vice President, Great Lakes and Eastern Canada

Susan Simon has a passion for growing market presence in complex organizations by building relationships that add value.  As a veteran sales executive with more than 20 years of experience, Susan has brokered many large, strategic deals in Fortune 1000 companies while mobilizing global teams toward aggressive goals and timelines. With a track record of personally embracing the philosophy of consultative and strategic selling over many years, she attributes Miller Heiman processes as being instrumental to her success. Her results-driven focus has proven that disciplined account strategy, when set as a cultural baseline, empowers accountability and flawless execution across multi-functional teams. 

Ray DiCenzo
Sales Vice President, Northeast Region

Ray DiCenzo is a highly driven and accomplished sales leader with more than 22 years of experience in competitive and challenging industries. He joined Miller Heiman from Eastman Kodak Company, where he held leadership positions within business development and global sales operations.

As a sales leader, Ray has established a track record of turning around under-performing sales organizations and producing immediate and sustained results. He is known for his ability to quickly gain an in-depth understanding of complex sales challenges and opportunities, and for taking a pragmatic approach to implementing solutions that result in success.

Ray offers extensive experience in global sales operations, including sales process implementation, global sales automation, sales compensation and incentive planning, pricing and promotions, and sales talent management.

Lynda Marston
Vice President of International Operations

As Miller Heiman's Vice President of International Operations, Lynda Marston is responsible for all sales and marketing operations outside of the U.S. She leads all operational management activities in the UK and Australia offices, including sales operations, marketing, human resources and lead process management. Since joining Miller Heiman in 1999, she has been instrumental in growing Miller Heiman's UK office and driving the company's international growth objectives. 

Lynda began her career as a clinical nurse and later moved into senior hospital operations where she spent 20 years with the National Health Service, the last ten as a senior manager. 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.

 

Nattalie Hoch
Director of Small-Mid Market Sales

Nattalie joined Miller Heiman in 2001 as a sales representative and quickly accelerated to roles of increased responsibility. Since joining Miller Heiman, she worked as sales representative, client associate liaison, client services manager, products manager, and her current role, director of small-mid market sales. As products manager, Nattalie was instrumental in the launch of various Miller Heiman offerings, including Predictive Sales Performance, Sales Excellence Assessment and Strategic Selling® Government.

Prior to joining Miller Heiman, Nattalie held sales leadership roles in the hospitality, airline and technology industries. She has 13 years of sales and sales leadership experience.

About Miller Heiman

With a prestigious client list that includes Fortune 500 clients, Miller Heiman helps companies in virtually every major industry to build high performance sales teams that deliver consistent sustainable results to drive revenue.