Marvin Garellek

Marvin Garellek, B. Comm launched his ad agency 2 months after graduating University in 1983. He sold it to Grey Advertising 9 years later. In 1992 he developed the world’s first Marketing Plan software that since became Plan A® Business PlanWorks business, marketing and financial planning software, which is sold over the Internet and through resellers. Plan A is an award winning software and was chosen Success Magazine’s Editors’ Choice 7 times.

With the advent of the Internet and the abundance of free content, he has been employed in Sales, Marketing and Sales Management for various companies in the technology and telecom and technology since 2000. For the last 15 months he has grown sales at Odotech Inc in his role of Internationsl Sales Manger overseeing and coaching a team of 7. He has increased sales, market share for each company he has worked for. His experience spans a publicly traded TSX company, Bell Canada as well as medium sized technology companies. He is formally trained in Sales Management to build and grow sales teams and reseller networks.

Strengths: Sales Leader and Sales Management Specialist, business and marketing strategist, selling complex business solutions, project manager, self-starter, strong negotiator, trained leader, results oriented, team player, relationship builder, accountable, customer centric, communicative, public speaker.

Competency Profile: Sales Management : Direct / Distribution / Building & Managing a Reseller Network / VARs , Business and Marketing Planning, Assessment of the current sales team, Sales Process implementation, Building a quality Sales Pipeline (CRM), Coaching, Recruiting, Managing and Motivating the Sales Team

Marvin serves on Citibank's Panel of Experts, as a Gerson Lehrman Group Council Member, a public speaker and member of the Loan Committee for Youth Employment Services (YES) Montreal. He is on the board of a Hospital Foundation and is also its Marketing Chair. He is experienced in raising capital, developing business plans and building and running successful businesses. He has also made numerous speeches to entrepreneurs on topics ranging from business planning, marketing strategy, sales development and strategies, negotiating and creating value for all stakeholders in a company.
Marvin is a spokesperson for Citibank MasterCard’s Entrepreneur credit card.
His motto: "Success is a good plan".