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Michael has over 25 years of professional sales growth, achievement, direction and a consistent enterprise sales management track record of successful high-growth, entrepreneurial start-up accomplishments in general management and sales management. With excellent sales communication and sales presentation skills, combined with well-developed hiring, sales training and entrepreneurial talents he has enjoyed an exemplary strategic and tactical sales management career.

Balanced by a resourceful, intuitive and creative field marketing background - Michael's highly developed experience in attracting, developing, and building killer technology sales teams is now put towards assisting his clients in accomplishing the same extraordinary results for their own sales and executive management needs.

His exacting past experience as VP of Sales, Director of Sales, and subsequently Founder/President of his own INC-500 listed "Fastest Growing Companies in America" (INC#107 for 2001), provides him the insights and criteria necessary to understand your needs with a shared sense of urgency.

" If you're average - surround yourself with smart people....If you're smart - surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you! "

As President and Co-Founder of one of the nation's leading new digital media and communications business organizations (Midwest Media Group, LLC), I led all aspects of general management responsibilities and took this private business from $1M to $16M in only three years - leading to its listing as #107 in INC. Magazine's top 25% Fastest Growing Companies in North America.

This highly unique experience of putting one's own self on the line is what ultimately gave me the impetus to start my own successful recruiting firm in The Karimand|Michaels Group and Sales Consultants of Phoenix-North. I know what hiring motivated, smart, creative, and disciplined superstars can do for an organization and for the hiring manager's personal career.

Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of my prior corporate management experience was to join the founding senior sales management team, as employee #32, of one of the hottest successful IPO start-ups (AVID Technology, INC.) to survive and thrive through the nineties. By building two highly successful and dynamic sales regions, and by sourcing and hiring only ace sales players, we held our competitors' market share to under 12%, giving this emerging start-up time to establish its underlying sales and support infrastructure and ultimately becoming the dominant, world-renowned, Emmy and Oscar-winning performance player it remains today.

Being part of this incredible opportunity, from its inception to hitting over $500M in sales, was a life-changing experience few get to experience. I count myself among the lucky ones to have done so - and from that I gained a great deal of understanding as to what anyone responsible for sales today requires in both an individual and an organizational culture, and a sense of urgency in order to succeed.

With an MBA from Keller and a BS in Education from Illinois State, I have always believed highly in education and the value of continued training. Thus, you will find in working with everyone on the team at Sales Consultants of Phoenix-North an unsurpassed level of integrity, commitment, perseverance, trust, and confidentiality. And at anytime--should you wish to speak directly to the owner--you only need ask once.

Reference Client Comments

July 7, 2004:

" Michael distinguishes himself by passionately and professionally representing those people he works with - and by adding the human touch to his daily business communications. I believe Michael's attitude & professionalism up's the ante on his competition. For him this is business as usual - versus others in his industry that don't represent and take your best interests at heart. " Rick S. Director of Sales

June 24, 2004:

"Michael is working with us to recruit high level sales professionals for some of our most important locations. He does a thorough job of assessing our needs and brings us only the candidates that closely match our specifications. We have been very pleased with his professionalism. " Toni L. VP Human Resources

September 15, 2004:

" Michael - I really appreciate you going the extra mile on this. I have worked with numerous recruiters over the years and most recently with several aligned with MRI and SC - and not one has been more responsive than you. I, for one, will remember who worked on my behalf and those are the folks I will use to help me build my team in the future. Thanks again. " Mark M.-Candidate

May 20, 2005:

" I want to personally thank you for your diligence and professionalism. You have raised the bar of my expectations of how recruiters should perform. The caliber of candidate that your and your colleague have brought to us is the highest we have seen. Your service is exemplary and your process is improving our process. Thank you. " Craig L.. - Client Firm President