Rick Mason

Experience

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  Equine Dreams

  Jan 2010 - now

  - Voluntarily serve as Senior Leadership of a 20+ year 501c3 charity. Preside over the Board and executive committee meetings, and provide assistance in securing funding via grants, donations, and annual fundraising strategies. - Serve as an articulate, enthusiastic, and visible spokesperson for the program to effectively communicate our fundraising goals, need for community recruitment and collaboration, and requirements for a sustainable future. - Develop and counsel the implementation of strategic policies and procedures to advance the Mission Statement of Equine Dreams into its future. - Foster existing donor relationships and seek potential candidates for future giving. Show less

  • President and CEO

    Mar 2020 - now

  • President

    Nov 2014 - Mar 2020

  • Vice President

    Jan 2010 - Nov 2014
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  Waubonsee Community College

  Mar 2011 - Aug 2015

  Instructor

  -Co-Developer and Instructor of a 2-year curriculum within Workforce Development designed to prepare and credential candidates for careers as Internationally accredited Therapeutic Horseback Riding Instructors, through PATH International.

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  Smith & Nephew

  Jul 2014 - Jun 2020

  Independent Sales Representative - NPI

  - Maintain an advanced knowledge of Orthopedic Reconstruction, Trauma, and available products addressing a diverse range of indications and fracture patterns. Remains current with newly published research, data, and trends, while implementing business objectives, pricing strategies, and proven sales techniques accordingly. - Establish, develop, and maintain an excellent rapport with key surgeons, podiatrists, residents, hospitals, OR-personnel, administration, clinicians, and researchers. Effectively integrate productive and proffessional, oral and written, communication with these individuals, as well as internal sales management members. - Achieve and/or exceed monthly and annual sales quotas, track all field/sales calls made, while keeping record of follow-up, market potential, as well as short and long term objectives. Report annually on the successfulness of these objectives. Constantly search for new ways to increase sales, while independently maintaining a diverse 1.7M+ territory, with on-call status. -Assists in regional, and national, meetings, trainings, and medical education opportunities. Organizes group meetings, product dinners, wet-labs and inservices throughout the year. -Maintains “On-Call” Status 24/7, and responds to stressful situations calmly and proactively. Ability to interact with surgeons, answering questions, and offering intra-operative solutions, concisely and respectfully. Show less

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  OHF Foundation

  May 2020 - now

  Operations Manager