Exosphere Aircraft's Directors Elect Howard Highsmith, a Veteran High Tech Consultant, to the Company's Board
March 25 2011 - 9:11AM
Marketwired
Exosphere Aircraft (PINKSHEETS: EXSA) dba BCS, Inc., the nationwide
leader in networking for the Internet, today reported that its
Board of Directors has elected veteran high tech consultant Howard
Highsmith as a board member.
Mr. Highsmith has 40 years' experience in field sales, marketing
and executive management, executing marketing and sales strategies
with a focus on large commercial accounts, as well as the public
and federal sectors.
He started his career selling office equipment door-to-door,
graduating soon to selling $100,000 UNIX computer solutions and
engineering software to large utility accounts with year-long plus
sales cycles.
Mr. Highsmith also worked several years for IBM as a marketing
representative. In addition, he served as a branch manager,
director of sales and vice president of sales for several other
high technology companies.
He has established proven abilities to craft and implement
revenue generation strategies resulting in measurable top line
sales growth. Two examples are revenue growth from $1.8 million to
$19.0 million and $14.1 million to $21.1 million, both in
approximately two years.
Under Mr. Highsmith's leadership as sales director for his
network integration firm, it was ranked 341 in the VAR500 list of
largest network integrators in the United States.
In 2000, Mr. Highsmith formed the Sales Methods Corporation,
doing business as SalesCue Corporation. The name was changed two
years ago to B2B Institute to reflect a change in focus from
software sales to management consulting and education.
Mr. Highsmith is the author of the book Silver Bullet, with
recommended strategies for creating competitive advantages focused
on revenue goal achievement and sustained revenues.
A Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and an active member of
the Institute of Management Consultants, Mr. Highsmith has also
served on the IMC Carolina's Chapter Board of Directors and was
Co-Chairman of the Member Care Committee of the IMC USA Carolinas
Chapter. He currently serves on the Certification Committee, and is
an active member of the International Speakers Network.
"Having Howard Highsmith on our board is a privilege," said
President & CEO Ramsey Dellinger. "His wealth of experience has
helped so many companies, and we look forward to having his sage
advice going forward."
About EXSA dba BCS, Inc.
BCS is the nationwide leader in networking for the Internet.
Today, networks are an essential part of business, education,
government and home communications, and BCS Internet Protocol-based
(IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.
BCS hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create
Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and
government to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction
and strengthen competitive advantage. The BCS name has become
synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity
improvements that Internet business solutions provide.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains
forward-looking statements, including expected industry patterns
and other financial and business results that involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our
actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to
differ materially from results expressed or implied by this press
release. Such risk factors include, among others: the
sustainability of recent growth rates in the technology industry;
the positioning of Exosphere in the market; ability to integrate
acquired companies and technology; ability to retain key employees;
ability to successfully combine product offerings and customer
acceptance of combined products; general market conditions,
fluctuations in currency exchange rates, changes to operating
systems and product strategy by vendors of operating systems; and
whether Exosphere can successfully gain market acceptance. Actual
results may differ materially from those contained in the
forward-looking statements in this press release.
Contact Information: Ramsey Dellinger Phone: 800-454-6169
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