Richard Olson

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About Richard Olson

An accomplished and talented sales professional with proven leadership and complex corporate sales success. A trusted and highly networked individual with sales teams, peers, and customers. Greatly experienced solutions provider that can find and articulate value to customers. As a technically sound professional with excellent communication skills, have exhibited the ability to match solutions to customers financial and business goals. A proven, consistent, and successful track record of technical/solution sales results to C-Level and IT/Telco professionals. An established individual with a very diversified background. This includes excellent understanding of existing and emerging communications software, hardware, and service platforms. Established sales success with both wholesale and direct business channels; large and medium size businesses; and in management and individual contributor roles. Specialties include: Consultative/Solutions Selling; New Market Development; Cloud Computing; IP Transit; MPLS Networks; VoIP; Ethernet Platforms; Contract/Deal Negotiation, Content Delivery; Fiber Infrastructure; Complex Account Management, Team Building and Motivation.