Thomas Vezzi

Experience

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  ICC Industries

  Jun 1994 - May 2000

  Prior Chemical Corporation Subsidiary of ICC Chemical Corporation• Sales contact for Sodium Sulfate from Roche Vitamins & RSR Corporation to outside customers and repackaging facilities.• Purchase container loads of Aluminum Sulfate from Sweden and arrange for storage warehouse in Pennsylvania to be shipped directly to customers.• Negotiate freight rates with transportation companies. • Process documents for import/export shipments.• Daily contacts with customers and banks.• Negotiate freight rates with transportation companies

  • Product Manager

    Oct 1995 - May 2000

  • Traffic Coordinator

    Jun 1994 - Oct 1995
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  Speedmark Transportation

  May 2000 - Feb 2002

  Sales Manager

  • Responsible for sales territories in New York Metro Area.• Prospected and Secured an import and export customer base with an emphasis on Asian and European market.• Handled major garment, textile, toy and high tech accounts.

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  Diamond Customhouse Brokers

  Feb 2002 - Apr 2007

  General Manager

  • Established a vast network of agents and showrooms in Europe, Asia and the U.S for distributing textiles and finished garments worldwide. • Specializing in all aspects of Fashion, which include shipping, clearing customs, handling carnets, collecting CODS and Invoices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. This business accounts for 95% of the business Diamond Brokers handles.• Developed with our Italian agent, a company in Florence, Italy that exported garments from The U.S. and Asia to stores in Europe for High fashion clients such as Anna Sui, Y&Kei andVivianTam.• Responsible for sales territories in Europe and the United States.• Responsible for developing a logistics / supply chain program for warehousing, pick and pack, invoicing, factoring, and distribution of fashion merchandises.• Supervised 30 employees at two warehouses Show less

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  FedEx Logistics

  May 2007 - Oct 2024

  -Responsible for P&L, Sales and Managing Automotive Accounts Globally-Establish New Automotive accounts for FedEx Logistics-I Manage a portfolio that includes vital Automotive Companies that include: The General Motors Company, Ford Motor Company, The Volvo Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (Stellantis), American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc, and Valeo-Focus sales efforts by studying existing and potential volume of automotive sectors-Understand customer needs and requirements-Resolve customer issues by investigation problems and developing solutions Show less • Develop, implement and communicate strategies to significantly increase revenue and volume in assigned trade lanes.• Focused on key vertical markets in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and other select SE Asian countries. • Evaluate, formulate and implement pricing programs; set volume targets allocated to team members to enhance their effectiveness to meet their expected sales goals. • Communicate directly and negotiate with Co-loaders, Airlines and Ocean carriers.• Daily review of pipeline and trade lane reports.• Work closely with sales teams and product managers to identify new opportunities and directly secure new business. Show less -Responsible for selling all FTN products in the northeast U.S. -Great success in securing long term profitable Air, Ocean, CHB, IDD, Nat warehouse and distribution accounts.-Part of a select FTN team in the Northeast, which guided and coached FedEx -Services reps on how to secure, set up and sell all FTN products to their current customer base-Developed and established, a very productive working relationship with all FTN operations depts. and FedEx OPCOS in my territory. Show less

  • Worldwide Account Manager- Automotive

    Nov 2021 - Oct 2024

  • Enterprise Regional Senior Sales Account Executive

    Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

  • Trade Lane Manager- Asia/US

    Mar 2016 - Jun 2020

  • Trade Lane Manager Europe/US

    Dec 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Sr. Account Executive

    May 2007 - Dec 2014
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  Federal Express Corporation

  Sept 2024 - now

  Worldwide Account Manager - International Global Airfreight