Jeff W. Kilpatrick

Experience

President and Chief Executive Officer
The Whitmore Manufacturing Company
January 2012 - Present 
Dallas/Fort Worth Area

General Manager, SVP
ShockWatch
2007 – October 2012 (5 years)

Principal
The Trion Group
2004 – June 2005 (1 year)

•  The Trion Group provides executive-level assistance to clients in managing critical

    situations and driving growth and value through optimizing strategy, branding, marketing

     and operations. 
•  Led and participate in consulting engagements across diverse industries.

Vice President of Marketing
Saxon Publishers
September 2001 – September 2004 (3 years 1 month)

•  Led company efforts to move from internally focused, product centric organization to one meeting customer and marketplace needs resulting in increase of 15% in annual revenues and 28% in profits following five years of no growth. Reported to CEO and recruited/managed team of 22 marketing professionals with $5 million annual budget. Team included product management, market research and marketing communications.

Vice President of Sales

PurchasePro.com
2000 – 2001 (1 year)

PurchasePro.com provided business-to-business ecommerce procurement software through the internet.

Built and led new sales organization to better manage customer accounts. Managed 25 account managers and 3 regional directors responsible for driving recurring revenue and increasing customer satisfaction.


Group Marketing Manager
Sprint
1996 – 2000 (4 years)
Created new team to develop and execute a strategy to open a new indirect channel for selling data products to small business and enterprise customers through value-added resellers and system integrators.

Led team of product marketing managers in developing and executing go-to-market plans to launch Sprint ION to enterprise businesses. Sprint ION was industry leading converged voice, video and data network service offering.

Developed strategic plans addressing broad-scale issues to better position Sprint for long-term market growth.

Business Consulting Manager

Arthur Andersen1990 – 1996 (6 years)