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Joe Surprenant

Senior Director - Strategic AccountsUpskill

Member Since December 2017

Skills

Executive Leadership
Digital Strategy
Supply Chain Management

About

Joe is a technology business professional with 20 years of experience in sales and marketing. He has played senior roles in running startups, developing sales teams and leading as a top performer. His experience includes a strong technology acumen across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and marketing. His deep expertise lies in digital supply chain transformation and IoT solutions for the CPG and Retail industries. He is a Forbes contributing author, Advisory Board Member of Powershelf - a retail and CPG technology company and currently leads Strategic Sales for Upskill - an AR solutions provider. Joe spent the past year at smart glasses manufacturer Vuzix Corporation running all commercial functions in North America and the APAC regions. At Vuzix, he helped grow the business by 160% and increased its market cap to $210MM. He joined Vuzix after spending 2 years at GE Digital where he focused on helping its strategic clients embrace digital transformation across operations. He was responsible for Global Strategic Customers in the CPG, Life Sciences and Food & Beverage verticals and helped grow the business exponentially year over year. Prior to GE, Joe built and led sales teams at SAP, Oracle, and Redwood. Joe co-founded Redwood Financial Partners and led all sales and marketing efforts for the company. He lives outside of Boston, MA with his wife and their two daughters. He enjoys spending time with his family, golf, and traveling.

Published content

Don’t Let Your Marketing Tactics Stunt The Augmented Reality Market

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By sharing success stories, being honest about your customer base, and sharing other companies' successes, AR companies can improve the transparency of their marketing tactics.

Augmented Engagement: The Future of Pharma And Health Care Marketing

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AR provides an opportunity to create a more empathetic health care experience.

Some Of The Largest AR Opportunities Are Coming From Unlikely Sources

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Many AR companies are focusing on selling to major clients and forgetting about mid-market companies, but that's a missed opportunity.

The Future Of Marketing Will Be Heads-Up And Hands-Free

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AR and smart glasses offer new opportunities for marketers to influence buyer decisions with ease.

Company details

Upskill

Company bio

Upskill is a developer of enterprise software for augmented reality devices designed to connect hands-on workers to the information they need to do their jobs. The company's enterprise software enhances the capabilities of hands-on workers to measurably and immediately improve business operations with greater efficiency and fewer errors from the factory to the warehouse as well as their job sites, enabling businesses become more agile and competitive through greater productivity, quality and compliance. The software is designed to run on AR smart glasses for optimal worker performance - heads up and hands-free.

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Area of focus

Enterprise Software
Developer Platform
Augmented Reality

Company size

51 - 200

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