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Harvey Gordon

Mr. Gordon is an experienced executive with extensive senior management experience in both private and public companies, domestic and international. For organizations that range in size from startups to $100M + , he has served as CEO and as business development, sales and marketing executive. Mr. Gordon has started his own businesses; taken a company public on a major American stock exchange; held key senior executive positions with several industry leading software and service firms, including Algorithmic Inc., Changepoint Corporation, Infonet Services Corporation and Magic Lantern Group. During his career he has established profitable operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia through direct sales staff, partnerships, reseller channels, joint ventures and acquisitions. Mr. Gordon is currently providing executive mentoring, M&A, and strategic business development services through his firm, Gordon International.

Mr. Gordon attended the University of Toronto, where he received a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors of Applied Science in Engineering Science.

Some Examples of Mr. Gordon’s Strategic and Market Development Experience:

• For a startup software distribution business: developed an innovative business model to distribute add-on software from the leading ISV’s worldwide through the global SAP Business One Channel.
• For a mature software developer of product for Microsoft messaging: re-organized the indirect channels, created a telemarketing program and developed a strategic plan that has resulted in a 25% increase in business in less than 1 year.
• For a group of investors in a software development company offering private banking software for the off-shore market: engineered a management buyout.
• For a distributor of learning video: developed an ecommerce and telemarketing program aimed at schools and universities, that increased revenue, quarter over quarter, by 50%; created a joint venture to enter the US market; and acquired a complementary business in a similar space.
• For a developer offering professional services software: developed new channels that generated 20% of company revenue in the first 6 months of operation; signed the top 5 mid-market VAR’s in the US and Canada as partners; and created a European joint venture to distribute product throughout Europe.
• For a property management software company: rebuilt the Asian direct and channel distribution organizations and sourced a new product acquisition to replace their aging system.
• For a telecom software company: built an extensive distribution network throughout Europe and Asia composed of 16 leading System Integration companies.
• For a financial software company: Opened the Asian market with offices in Tokyo and Singapore and generated $6 million USD in the first year of operation; developed world-wide business partnerships with major systems integrators and accounting firms generating in excess of $30M of SI business; led an M&A initiative including a European acquisition; created a joint venture hosted service offering with a major US market player.