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Ken Ninomiya
Prof. Ken - "The Small Biz Pilot"- has held executive positions with one of the largest food manufacturers in South America, a start up of a fortune 100 company, and Director positions for a division of Dole and Tressallure (a Revlon licensed company). As the founder of ekn links, Prof. Ken has helped to market over $100M of products into the U.S. and International marketplaces with retailers from Wal-Mart to Home Depot. Prof. Ken has expanded his U.S. business to include management divisions in China and in Brazil. Most recently Ken partnerered to open Promotion Services International, a company that specializes in bringing U.S. products to Brazil and Brazilian products into the U.S. market. Ken has recently been dubbed the Small Biz Pilot and is now helping businesses retain profits and build business both locally and internationally.
Prof. Ken Ninomiya holds a degree from Dallas Baptist University, and an Executive MBA from the Chapman School of Business at FIU. Ken has earned academic business awards and the Richard Boulware Scholarhip for entrepreneurship. He has authored and created business cases and an interactive business simulation for executive training and is a Visiting Professor at the Keller Graduate School in marketing management. Prof. Ken has also created a series of books to help children ages 7-10 learn about business, life and family called BizEBunch.com. He is currently working on an adult business series under the 30PageUniversity.com umbrella (due out in Feb. 2012).
Some Bio Stuff:
- Developed and launched $100M+ of consumer products for major mass retail, food, drug and specialty retail channels.
- Created sales training manuals and protocols for international and domestic channel sales teams
- Leader in building a company and product from the ground up.
- Hired, trained and managed broker/rep agencies, sales reps/managers, and marketing support staff.
- Managed International distributors and developed plans for market expansion and product strategies.
- Guide sales department through the creation and implementation of SOX compliant narratives.
- Manage organization and production teams through new product safety laws and compliance issues.
- Created innovative merchandising and sales programs for consumer sell thru.
- Repositioned product lines leading the marketing and production teams in building new product programs.
- Re-located to China to source out in-demand product resulting in line expansion and production savings.
Awards and Affiliations:
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