Keith Brooks

Sy Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University

Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College CUNY

Operations Focused Executive

Israel

Helping your organization focus its sales and marketing efforts at the expense of your competition to increase your revenue.

B2B Whisperer

Chief Executive Officer

Saving customers from themselves day in and day out while retaining them as customers.

The RockTeam

Professional Services Manager

IP Law firm that specializes in securing and protecting copyrights, trademarks, songs, and software from being used without permission. I made sure they had services available to them on-premises and in the cloud 24x7 because you know lawyers wait till the last minute to file anything just in case there is a settlement.

CRGO Law

They have numbers, but they also have graduated from a small entity to a larger one. Brought in to review a QA process that I saw needed to be rearchitected out of their spreadsheet mess into a proper database. Good for them for listening to my advice.

Personetics

Data Intelligence Consultant

Is there anything better than talking to exuberant startups and entrepreneurs about the geographical nuances of their sales, pricing, marketing, and presentations? 3 out of 4 sessions my mentees made it into the end of year final rounds.

MassChallenge

Judge and Mentor 2017, 2018

Best thing I have done in years, but hard to maintain it with my day to day business obligations. Taught teenagers how to extend their basic usage of Microsoft Office while learning the history of the products and computers.

Open Tent Academy

Teacher

What happened at William Hill stays in William Hill. It is true I coached one of our team to win the company poker tournament, she was an excellent student.

William Hill

SEO Manager

ThinkRite

Product Marketing Manager

Managing the team that delivers $5M in projects related to collaboration and communication services to over 500,000 employees worldwide.

Director of Professional Services

250,000+ person upgrade of IBM Connections with a roll out to each store

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Regional Operations Specialist

Platform to enhance insurance agents' revenues and lead generation.

Quick Quote US

CRM and Data Migration Projects involving cruise lines, insurance companies, government organizations

SAS GROUP, INC.

Director of Services

Projects include Upgrading infrastructures, migrating infrastructures, and consulting services to clients in need of a technology roadmap.
Clients include Toyota, Truly Nolen, Celine, Fidelity, SUNY, GMF, FINCA, Smartorg.

RPR Wyatt

Business Operations Manager

Secured the dealer network, but could not secure a deal on a car. Toyota understands collaboration. One of my favorite projects.

Toyota Financial Services

Application Specialist

Great place to work and see things from the other side. While moving data centers no burgers were left without buns.

Burger King

Data Center Migration Manager

Focused on disaster planning, business continuity and the integration of collaboration and messaging systems among IBM, Microsoft, Novell and Google.
- Reduced estimated losses of $1.3M (5 hours per week) related to operational downtime to $135K(1/2 hour per week) after enhancements increased reliability and integration.
- Managed the integrated messaging infrastructure for a $11 Billion fast food organization with 3,500 internal users, 10,000+ external and over 30 servers along with an India outsourcing company.
- Built a CPG start-up business that generated 50% monthly growth within the first year and within 3 years sales exceeded $3 million.

Clients included Lowe’s, Ryder, Toyota, Burger King, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, Truly Nolen, Smartorg, City Furniture, Westamerica, Bluegreen Corporation, Zimmerman Advertising, Beacon Council of Miami, Echeverria Design, Consumer Health Technologies, King Engineering, Magmall

Vanessa Brooks, Inc.

Managing Director/CIO

Reported to the CTO of IBM Europe.
Sales activities across a 20-country region producing $25M in sales and services for a $12B division.
Partnered with the CTO as part of a core team of European operations leaders.
Delivered training, materials, coursework, and documentation for over 3,000 sales and technical employees and Business Partners.
Delivered presentations at multiple executive briefings and analyst press conferences worldwide, including industry events for Nokia, Palm, HP/Compaq, IBM and Microsoft.
Strategic relationships with PDA, cell phone, wireless, telecommunications and services vendors valued at $15M per year.

IBM Software Group

EMEA Regional Product Manager / Technology Evangelist

An online magazine subscription service, that has survived and thrived over the years against all the Internet naysayers. Because sometimes you need a physical magazine to read instead of social media.

Magmall Inc.

Board Member

Provided dual routing failover points for their messaging, fax, and collaboration solution.
Let's see you do all of it without the Internet?

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Telecommunications Consultant

My time on Wall Street really was like The Wolf of Wall Street. Great time and a great bank.

Bankers Trust

Network Administrator, PC Support Specialist

My ancient history, but without it, I would never be as efficient as I am now with current customers.
- International Project Management
- Trained 1,000s of employees
- DR Projects
- International management across the US, Israel, Europe, South America, and Central America.

Not a bad way to start a career, don't you think? Clients included IBM, Intel, Citibank, Burger King, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and ECI Telecom.

KB Consulting

Owner and CEO

Everyone should start their career at a non-profit theatre.
You learn how to do so much with so little, and be creative even when not on stage(I only filled in once).
Wrote some seriously awesome spreadsheets to manage subscriptions, revenue, and payroll.