Grant Hyman’s Specialties:

I'm available as a speaker/motivator/trainer/recruiter/consultant for tasks that boil down to increasing YOUR revenues and margins!

Grant Hyman’s Experience

• Director

Sales Central

(Management Consulting industry)

November 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)

Sales Central's purpose is to facilitate improvement to clients' Sales Volumes and Margins.

'Sales is all we do and we've been doing it for Decades' is our profile positioning and 'Your One-Stop Sales Shop' is our webtag.

• Sales Manager - Major Accounts

Canon, Inc.

(Public Company; CAJ; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

1991 — 1999 (8 years)

Field-Sales (titled Colour Imaging Specialist) then Sales Team Leadership position - Corporate, Bureau and Government sales of high value, Networked Colour Copiers/Printers and Servers

• Senior Account Executive

Info-One

(Management Consulting industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year)

Developing and Managing Full Text Retrieval systems, delivered on CD-ROM and regularly updated to provide distributed reference information when the Web had yet to deliver on its potential.

• Group Director / Directors' Club

Larome

(Management Consulting industry)

1989 — 1990 (1 year)

Network Marketing product which captured the IT industry's fascination and allowed time out the Corporate world to work from home and 'get a life'.

• Senior Sales Representative

Sysygy

(Management Consulting industry)

1988 — 1989 (1 year)

Selling Digital VAX Systems Management products plus a range of products integrating Apple Macintosh networks to DEC VAX environments.

• Sales Representative - new business

Cincom Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1988 (1 year)

Selling Advanced Relational database and 4GL software primarily into Digital VAX markets to complement the company's strong IBM-mainframe user base.

• National Account Manager

ACI Computer Services (later Ferntree)

(Management Consulting industry)

1984 — 1987 (3 years)

As Australia's biggest IBM-based VAR and biggest IBM-based bureau we worked extensively with major IBM Accounts and IBM salespeople. My role involved selling IBM PC-based systems both stand-alone and 3270/5250/3Com networked to Corporate and Government, with occasional sales of financial and other specialised systems to smaller businesses.

• NSW Sales Supervisor - Computer Systems

Remington Office Machines

(Management Consulting industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year)

Supervising a city sales team of 5 reps plus 2 support staff, plus a budget for revenues in country branches for a new computer technology.

• Sales Representative then Sales Manager.

Business Spectrum Services

(Management Consulting industry)

1981 — 1983 (2 years)

Selling Commodore Business microcomputers (with accounting, word processing and business modelling software) plus Kaypro CP/M systems and Toshiba Word Processing systems, and late in my time there, Sirius MS-DOS based systems.

Grant Hyman’s Education

• Dover Heights Boys High

1970 — 1977

• Rose Bay Public

1968 — 1969

Completed my first school years in New Guinea, arriving in Sydney at the end of 4th class.

• Craig Ashton & Simon Rutherford

• University of the Pavement

Graduated to the University of the Pavement after starting in the School of Hard Knocks and studying Basic Business Law and Accounting at night school.

At the time of writing, I have attended only 1 University Lecture - I addressed an MBA Marketing class for 2 hours and received universal ovation of which I remain proud.

Have also delivered presentations to senior Selective Secondary School Business students - again, universal ovation of which I remain proud.

Additional Information

Grant Hyman’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Portfolio

Grant Hyman’s Interests:

Performance-focused Technology, Writing, Reading, Swimming, Tennis, Gym, Crosswords, Fast Chess, Amateur Rugby League

Grant Hyman’s Groups:

Been involved in various Business, Social and Community groups.

Grant Hyman’s Honors:

Several Significant Sales Performance Awards - see my profile at http://www.salescentral.com.au/our_people.php