OUR TEAM

George Brown

A leading corporate strategist and international authority in sales and marketing, George has thirty years' experience in every aspect of sales management, establishing best sales practices, leading and motivating sales teams, and achieving product positioning and sales training success.

George has led and motivated sales people and teams at Deloitte, HSBC Asset Management, Sage Software, Uniden Japan, Context Associated, Art in Motion, Computer Associates, Navision Software (now Microsoft Business Solutions), Crystal Services (now Business Objects), as well as several Canadian credit unions and medium-size US banks..

Also a gifted business tactician, George has conceived, developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies for hundreds of businesses in the United States, Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and Canada. His dynamic, candid approach emphasizes effective communications and tangible results. Entertaining as well as practical, George is a powerful and much sought-after public speaker, often featured at sales conferences and other venues.

Cathy Brown

Cathy's 20 years of success in senior sales management and training roles in the high-tech sector provides SALESWORKS with expertise in the areas of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), channel strategies, project management, and training program and course delivery. Cathy began her career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and then spent several years with Computer Associates in San Jose, California, as both National Director of Training and later National Director of Sales where she managed a large sales team and several hundred VAR's.

Prior to joining SALESWORKS, Cathy was among the pioneers of the CRM industry in her roles at Richmond Software (Maximizer) and then as Director of Sales and Training at Pivotal Software. She was instrumental in building, training and leading Pivotal's sales channel. As part of her roles at Pivotal and then later as Director of CRM at Aston Group, Cathy has been involved in over 50 CRM implementations for companies in several different industries.

Cathy holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia.

Ross Allen

Ross brings sales, training and business analyst skills to the SALESWORKS team. A CPA with degrees in both accounting and computer science, Ross began his career with the computer audit team at Ernst & Young in San Francisco. He subsequently led the recruitment and training for Computer Associates' successful Qualified Installer program and then started up and managed 200% per annum growth of Computer Associates micro division in Australia.

Since joining SALESWORKS Ross has been instrumental in the success of its training, sales strategy and CRM practice. A powerful communicator and program presenter, he has delivered sales and sales management training courses to hundreds of students from CPA and technology consulting firms worldwide. His facilitation skills are in high demand by companies in the process of evaluating and changing business processes.

Dana Willmer

With an MBA in Marketing and over 20 years in senior marketing roles (most recently as Vice President with a national credit card issuer), Dana has crafted and implemented numerous marketing, sales, customer loyalty, and product strategies, often ground-breaking and always with concrete results. In addition, Dana has had direct functional responsibility for business units ranging from insurance, to training, to travel fulfillment, to loyalty programs, to outside sales channels.

While possessing extensive marketing expertise, Dana is also an extremely talented business generalist, with a knack for bringing innovative thinking and results to a variety of corporate contexts and assignments. Dana has worked in a broad range of industries ranging from financial services, to training & development, to consulting.

Dana's versatility and strong analytical capabilities allow him not only to develop solid sales, marketing, and product strategies, but to also provide the practical means for implementing them.