San Francisco, USA - October 9th, 2009 - sales-i, (www.sales-i.com) the sales intelligence service for front line sales people today announced that it has appointed Denver, Colorado-based Todd Eakes to drive business development in the North American market. With Todd on board sales-i will ramp up sales initiatives into existing and new target markets to support its already hugely successful, aggressive growth strategy.

"With Todd on the team driving sales, we are in a great position to capitalise on our strong growth in the North American office products market both directly and through resellers and partners,” said Kevin McGirl, co-founder of sales-i. “Todd has extensive office products sales experience and his contacts and market knowledge will be invaluable as we expand our footprint into this huge market.” Kevin continues, “This is a very exciting time for sales-i. We are rapidly acquiring North American market share and now count more than 70 office products companies amongst our customers and have developed strategic relationships with suppliers and purchasing groups like Red Cheetah, United, TriMega, SP Richards, Supplies Network, the IS Group and Lagasse. Todd and the team will embrace the challenges of extending these relationships and deepening our reach into other markets.”

Todd has an extensive background in the IT solutions and office products industry having previously worked at ECi, a leading supplier of business systems to the office products industry, as well as a pair of Microsoft Dynamics™ services and solutions partners also targeting office products companies. Prior to that, Todd played a key role in sales leadership with a local start-up focusing on delivering ERP solutions to the distribution industry. During his tenure he helped the company to develop a solution sales methodology along with sales tools, policies, procedures and other infrastructure to streamline and accelerate the sales cycle. As a result, the company enjoyed breakthrough sales success in selling its newest technology to both existing and new customers. Todd has also held a number of senior sales positions in companies such as Computer Associates and i2 Technologies.

Speaking of his appointment Todd commented, “I am delighted to be part of this global success story. Having worked with dealers on the ERP side who have made investments takings months or even years to reach significant payback, I am thrilled to present them with a solution that delivers real payback to their bottom-line in just a few short weeks!. It’s little surprise to me that the office products market is grabbing this with both hands and I look forward to accelerating that growth and working with the sales-i team to transform the successes of office products and distribution companies across North America.”

Todd holds an MBA from the University of Colorado and a BS in Industrial Technology Management from Colorado State University.

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