Vance Gorke

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About Vance Gorke

Over 200 Business Development Deals and Counting. Recent/Current Partnerships/Deals: Wall Street Journal Broadvox Bandwidth Cox Media Group Hearst Men's Group AT & T nTelos Simple Mobile - Executive with strong background and experience in operations, sales, finance, and business development. Experience ranges from early stage start-ups from fundraising through M&A transactions - as well as managing established high growth businesses- Speaker Bio Vance is a successful speaker and presenter, business consultant and developer of processes and systems for a variety of established and developing companies. His clients have ranged from billion dollar media conglomerates to small start-ups. Recognized for his enthusiastic and passionate style, In his approach Vance brings real world simplicity to complex solutions. Vance attended the University of Buffalo and studied a combination of Media Studies, Business and Computer Science. Vance's career has been based in the application of technology to business processes - with 12 years of progressive consultative selling and operations experience; working with C-Level contacts from Fortune 500 to tech start-ups. Vance has helped to position two web-based companies Switchboard.com, and PlanetDiscover.com for IPO and corporate buyout. He is effective in leveraging corporate assets for national exposure; with skills in affiliate development, product development, and business analysis. Specialties: Sales Planning & Channel Management Content and Audience growth Enterprise Sales Product Development Product Marketing Sales Manager Digital Content New Media License Negotiation New Market Development Strategic Alliance and Reseller Development