Ken Burnstein

Experience

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  Reynolds Business Systems

  Aug 1985 - Jul 1986

  Territory Sales Rep
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  Inter-Tel

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1988

  Territorial Sales Consultant

  Inter-Tel is now Mitel

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  Twitchell, Div. of Tyco Labs

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

  Marketing Manager

  I was in charge of marketing and business development for several product lines including the development and sales of specialty infrared blocking fabrics to the military and specialty fabrics to the fashion industry.This job was a blast, as I got to see the latest toys the Military was working on, and was featured in several magazines such as Vogue and New York Times for the fashion products, and even gave a radio interview to 1.5 million listeners.

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  Portable Products, Inc.

  Jan 1990 - Jan 2002

  CEO/Founder

  The company specialized in providing bar code data collection systems, software and equipment to Fortune 1000 companies, Government and Educational accounts. Some of our customers included: Lockheed Martin, Westinghouse, Motorola, Circuit City and the World Bank.I started this company knowing nothing about the industry and grew it to a 7 figure business within a few years. I managed and grew the company for 12 years, then decided to sell it to a larger company.In addition to running the company on a day to day basis, my role was to develop and maintain strategic partnerships with suppliers and channel partners, as well as personally maintain relationships with our key Fortune 500 customers. Show less

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  ClientCentric LLC

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  Partner/Co-Founder

  The company was a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) consultancy focused on flowcharting and implementing best practices for sales force automation systems such as Seibel, Oracle, SalesLogix and Goldmine. ClientCentric developed and implemented critical sales strategies and processes for companies such as eMarketWorld during the first web boom.

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  HotClient

  Jan 2004 - now

  Founder and CEO

  HotClient owns and manages a number of web applications, online marketplaces and service companies. http://www.hotclient.com

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  ClientCentric

  Jan 2005 - now

  Founder and CEO
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  ModuleStudios

  Sept 2005 - Dec 2005

  Chief Strategist

  Module Studios was a company focused on providing best of breed visual interfaces to the Enterprise Intranet. I was one of the original founders and then left after the initial startup stage.

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  RPost

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Business Director

  RPost is Registered E-Mail which provides legal proof of sending, delivery, content, authorship and time. Key user industries include Legal, Real Estate, Insurance, Banking and HR.

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  Zoolit

  Jun 2007 - Jan 2010

  Co-Founder

  One of the first social media aggregation web apps

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  JumpLane

  Aug 2008 - Apr 2009

  Advisor
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  TechnoDespair.com

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2011

  Founder
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  MotorDesigns

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  Founder

  MotorDesigns is a manufacturer, curator and distributor of engineered automated products for the architectural, building, hospitality, commercial and residential markets.

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  RepConnector

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

  Founder

  RepConnector is an early stage startup, currently in Beta, which connects manufacturers, tech and service companies with qualified independent sales reps.RepConnector enables businesses to quickly scale by outsourcing their sales and business development, and then to manage those relationships. Now accepting beta testers.