NanoLumens® Appoints Jeff Crowley Vice President of Global Channel Sales

Moving to strengthen its senior sales management team at a time when it is rapidly expanding its worldwide sales and marketing programs, NanoLumens  (www.nanolumens.com), the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of complete visualization solutions, today announced the appointment of Jeff Crowley to the position of Vice President of Global Channel Sales, reporting directly to NanoLumens Executive Vice President of Global Sales Rick Bortles.

“We are incredibly fortunate to have an executive of Jeff’s caliber join our senior sales management team,” Bortles said today.  “Jeff is a veteran business executive with an accomplished track record of generating top and bottom line growth for both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer corporations. He is a decisive leader who has a relentless customer centric focus that has, time and again, generated significant growth in both revenue and profits for the companies he has served.”

Jeff Crowley brings more than 25 years of progressive executive sales and marketing leadership experience to his new position at NanoLumens.  His experience includes senior positions at leading companies like Sara Lee, ConAgra, and Schwann’s, as well as positions at private equity funded portfolio companies like Allied Capital and Ripplewood Holdings. He has held positions as President, COO, and General Manager and been responsible for revenue of more than $1-billion.”

Jeff Crowley was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Husson University in Bangor, Maine. 

“I am very excited to come to NanoLumens at this particular juncture in its remarkable history,” Crowley said today.  “I am joining a team of dedicated professionals who are very quickly changing the way the world views customer engagement through visualization.  I look forward to bringing my expertise in global channel sales and customer centric culture creation to helping NanoLumens, and their growing customer base, achieve all of our long-term growth objectives.” 

Core Brands Names Jeff Costello Vice President of Sales

To maximize sales of its home technology solutions through all key sales channels, Core Brands, LLC today announced the appointment of award-winning multi-channel sales leader Jeff Costello to the position of Vice President of Sales. 

“Jeff Costello is a very important hire for us, bringing more than 20 years of sales excellence with innovative companies across the electronics and technology sectors.  He is a ‘customer–first’ leader and a welcome addition to the team,” Core Brands President Joe Roberts said today. “He has already helped transform two of our sales channels, and with Jeff’s previous successes in driving CE, distribution and enterprise channel sales, he’s going to play a major role in helping Core Brands achieve our growth objectives.”

Now leading all aspects of Core Brands worldwide sales, Costello is no newcomer to Core Brands. For the last year he was in a senior consulting role directing major account and channel alignment strategies, as well as leading the new UMAP compliance initiatives for Core Brands and its sister company, Linear (now Nortek Security and Control).  

Previously, Costello served as Vice President of Sales at Smith Micro Software, where he led sales for the consumer, B2B, distribution and strategic accounts channels for this developer of wireless, productivity and graphics software, where he grew annual revenues and earned two ICE Awards (Internet Commerce Excellence) for launch and partnership promotions.

Costello preceded this with a ten year history of success as Vice President of Sales at Broderbund, where he ran North American reseller sales, growing annual software revenues and achieving a #1 position in 11 different categories. 

“This last year working with Joe Roberts and the sales teams at Core Brands has given me a clear understanding of the strengths of the company and what needs to be done to maximize our revenues,” Costello said today.  “I will be working closely with our sales management teams, independent reps and distributors in the United States and around the world to execute the strategies that will deliver a larger share of market for our award-winning brands.  I am excited to join the Core team as we bring to market innovative new smart home control, audio, connectivity and power management solutions to our worldwide customer base.”

Stampede Appoints Elizabeth Clune Vice President of Marketing

Underscoring its commitment to provide its dealer and manufacturer partners with the highest level of Value Added Marketing support, Stampede Presentation Products, Inc. today announced the expansion of its senior executive marketing team with the appointment of industry veteran Elizabeth Clune to the position of Vice President of Marketing. 

According to Stampede President & COO Kevin Kelly, Clune joins an already strong Stampede executive team that is headed up by Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing Jeff Willis and includes Vice President of Products John Marcolini.  “Beth brings to Stampede more than 20 years of experience in helping technology manufacturers and resellers to develop strategic, high ROI-generating go-to-market business development programs,” Kelly said today.  “Her background in telecommunications, consumer electronics, and professional services is going to immediately impact the effectiveness of our business development and marketing programs.  At the same time, she is going to add a new level of depth and leadership to our existing marketing team.”

“The Stampede team is comprised of talented and experienced professionals who are focused 100% on helping manufacturers and dealers achieve their short and long term business goals,” Kelly stated. “This is what separates us from the herd of other distributors and the addition of Beth to our team is going to help make the team more effective for our partners.”

Beth Clune comes to Stampede from the business development and marketing consulting company she founded in 2009.  Before founding her own consultancy, Clune served as Director of Business Development & Marketing for Installs, Inc., where she developed the role of the customer relations executive to manage VIP level and complex clients.  In this position, she established, developed and maintained successful relationships with Fortune 100 clients that include Best Buy, Dell, NEC Unified Solutions, and Sony, among others. 

From 2005 until 2008 Beth Clune served as the Director of Marketing and Sales of AAA of Upstate New York, where she established and built the entire regional membership, sales, and marketing department — coordinating all communications, e-commerce, travel agency, membership, web site, and financial services programs.  Before this, Beth Clune held a number of positions over a 12-year career at Cingular Wireless (now AT&T Wireless) including Director of Sales Operations, Director of National Retail Sales, and Director of Marketing.

“Beth is an entrepreneurial-minded executive with a natural ability to quickly understand complex issues and translate then into programs that achieve short and long-term objectives,” Jeff Willis said today. “She takes best–in-breed technology and data driven marketing techniques and applies them across all aspects of business, exceeding revenue and corporate goals in record time.  I welcome her to our team!”

Commenting on her appointment, Clune noted that, “For more than 20 years I have had the privilege of working with both large and small technology and service providers to help them meet the challenge of change in their respective industries.  Change is the one constant that cuts across all business sectors today, most especially in technology.  I am excited to join the Stampede team that is already very far along in helping their dealers and manufacturers to meet the challenge of change with high value added marketing programs that generate new business from new customers and incremental business from existing customers.  I look forward to putting my talents and experience to work for the entire sales organization.”

Beth Clune earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Communications and Marketing at Saint Bonaventure University in 1986.