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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY TARGET MARKETING GURU SALES TRAINER ENTREPRENEUR * Marketing strategist and researcher focused on providing insights that address business objectives and challenges. Skilled at helping senior management make informed strategic and tactical decisions. * Monitored market trends circumspectly, while tracking, analyzing and revamping effective strategies thereby significantly increasing market share for my businesses. * Experienced in advertising and branding research, ad and brand tracking, market segmentation, category analysis, client satisfaction, competitive intelligence, website behavior/usability, database mining, and distribution channel optimization. * Experienced in virtually all product and service categories with a recent focus (past 25 years) on financial services, in particular brokerage and investment advisory services. Solid industry experience, resourcefulness, and advanced academic training (BS. in Industrial Psychology) make me a valuable asset to any organization committed to developing a competitive edge . Over 25 years' proven track record in spearheading marketing and business development activities towards delivering multimillion dollar sales. * Experienced in the food service industry with professional networks servicing hotels, restaurant chains. * Possessed solid acumen in the areas of sales training, new market penetration as well as driving online and offline marketing initiatives. Known as a natural leader and strategic thinker, able to devise highly effective strategies to broaden the market reach as well as enhancing profitability. Editorial Reviews Amazon.com About the Author Donavan Shapray is CEO and the stock picking and Options strategic chief guru of Ascent Option Spreads, one of the world's most innovative stock market research and analysis publishing firms. As a former National Options Manager with Charles Schwab who hosted a Hollywood, California based stock market television show on the stock market channel. His unique perspective on public company analysis is a global publishing sensation, having reached investors in places as diverse as Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan, India, and Canada. * His landmark yacht racing to public company analysis performance, was in the top 5% of all stock market newsletter services, in terms of track record. Ascent Option Spreads is an integrated stock picking and Options strategic services firm focusing solely on investing leadership (professional as well as personal). It offers a complete line of elite speaking services, newsletter program and learning tools to help investors maximize productivity, attain profitability, and attain true market success. Recently, Thomson Reuters sought out Ascent Option Spreads to be a Partner and an Option Spread Educator for their worldwide established paying clientele.