Akos Jankura

• Product development, sourcing, manufacturing.
• Buying and selling inventions and innovative new products.
• TV commercials, digital Ads, live shopping, direct to consumer, and Infomercial specialist. Written, produced, or appeared as product spokesperson on 150 TV commercials.
• Providing production, direction and talent services
• Develop intellectual property, trademarks and patents.
• Akos Jankura has over 10,000 Live National Broadcast TV hours. as on air talent at Evine, ShopHQ, QVC, HSN, QVC London, QVC Germany, QVC Italy, QVC Japan, QVC Paris, TVSN Australia, TSC Canada, and DiecastTV
• 2016 Winner, Electronic Retailing Association - Best On Air TV Talent, TV Commercial, Infomercial, Live Shopping
• 2014 Winner, Electronic Retailing Association Best Male Live Shopping Talent.
• Appeared as segment guest on "Wendy Williams"
• Local Radio Show Personality. Hosted "My Cool Inventions" on WFLA and WGUL in Tampa.
• Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish goals.
• Over $1 Billion of Direct to Consumer Product Sales

Developed a large team of sales people that focused on Direct to Consumer Trade Shows.

• The team would sell innovative new inventions and gadgets at over 100 trade shows a year across the country.
• To be an industry leader in this space, required development of accountability systems that drove maximum sales with a goal of zero shrinkage.
• On the expense side, products needed to be purchased very efficiently, space rental returns had to be scrutinized carefully.
• Identify the right product that drove the top line, and let the system churn out the profits.

Vertical Brand Development. Development of Direct to Consumer Projects leveraging The Toronto Star Media Platforms.

• Managed and coordinated the production of creative content for broadcast, print and digital platforms.
• Oversee TV Media Budgets (approx $2 Million a week)
• Negotiated contracts with vendors to secure favorable terms for media buys.
• Analyzed market data to identify potential audiences and target markets.
• Supervised and evaluated team members to ensure quality standards were met in all projects.
• Manage Marketable Assets.
• Manage Retail Rollouts.
• Provided guidance on best practices for media buying and optimization.
• Created detailed reports to track media performance across all channels. Maximizing Media Efficiency Ratios.

• Purchased the 100+ year old Trademark "Heintzman" from Sklar Peppler.
• Manufacturing and Wholesale of Heintzman Pianos.
• Franchise development and franchisor of The Music Stand - Full line music stores featuring Heintzman Pianos.
• Leveraging my sales and marketing background, we developed a large team of sales people.
• Driving the team with the one franchise vision, keeping the whole team accountable to sales goals.
• Wrote the franchise manual.
• Kept up the honor of the piano brand, achieved 50% market share.

• Taught marketing and sales training as part of the Marketing Degree at Sheridan College in Oakville Ontario.
• Wrote the collateral for the course.
• During this period I was a hired Sales Trainer. My clients included FInancial Post, large corporations, C Suite Executives, right down to retail store owners.