Harwood Shepard

Built and managed Sales, Marketing and support organization supporting distributor in 54 countries. Managed direct sales and support operations in Hong Kong, Toronto and London.

Prior to this, as the start up sales and marketing head, I hired and trained domestic sales and marketing organization of fifteen sales people, five telemarketers and support staff located in Irvine California.

Periphonics Corporation Bohemia, New York

Joined the company as their first sales hire. Established the company with first voice response system sales in New York and New England. Over 14 years, I functioned in various positions building Periphonic’s presence as the industry leader. Moved to California and sold large Periphonics systems to major US banks including First Interstate, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Periphonics was eventually sold to Northern Telecom for $500 million.