Company Mission:
Sales Agent, LLC is a technology sales firm designed to help small to mid-sized technology companies sell their products and services. By acting as an extension of our client’s existing sales team, we help them drive revenue and keep their sales and marketing start-up expenses as low as possible. It is our goal to build a best of breed inside sales team for our clients can depend upon on a daily basis to build solid channel partnerships and develop end user demand leading to loyal customer relationships
Management Team:
Chrissy Girgis is the company’s President and COO. Ms. Girgis holds a B.S. in Psychology from George Mason University and has a number of certifications in the areas of finance and operations. She has held analyst positions at First American Realty Corp, Washington Mortgage, and Crestar Bank. Ms. Girgis is responsible for all day-to-day operations of Sales Agent, LLC including managing the company’s financials. Ms. Girgis is also responsible for running Sales Agent’s growing executive placement practice.
Bill Burley
Channel Development Advisor
Bill Burley was the former Vice President of Sales for Citrix Systems, Inc. and more recently, the former VP of Channel Development. He has an extensive track record of success in sales and channel development. He is credited with helping lead Citrix through its explosive growth period. Mr. Burley is now the current VP of Product Management for the new XenApp Server team at Citrix. During his tenure as VP of Sales, Mr. Burley was responsible for the Americas Sales Organization, which included the Citrix reseller channel, enterprise national accounts, OEM and distribution teams in that GEO. Among his many accomplishments, he was directly responsible for building and managing the program that helped the Citrix channel grow from 20 partners to well over 4,500 resellers by year 2000. His primary responsibility at Citrix; however, was in overseeing the majority of revenue growth for the company as sales grew from just $5 million per year to over $400 million in U.S. dollars in year 2000 under his leadership. His other responsibilities included overseeing and assisting with the development of Citrix’s channel marketing programs and helping to create end user demand generation initiatives that would stimulate channel growth. Mr. Burley had over 50 direct reports prior to leaving Citrix with responsibility over not just the entire inside sales organization but the field salespeople and systems engineering team as well.
Mr. Burley came to Citrix from Intel Corporation’s, PCED Group where he was the National Sales Manager for their networking products division. Previous to Intel, Mr. Burley managed sales for LANSystems Inc., a Netware utilities manufacturer out of New York City. He has also held executive positions with Appsense, Fourbit Group, Inc. and Tricerat, Inc.
Douglas A. Brown
Technology Management Advisor
Douglas Brown worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 in which time he was voted Systems Engineer of the Year 2002 by his peers and management at Citrix. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft Corporation in 2005, 2006, and 2007 for his contributions to the industry. He was also a charter award winner on the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program for his continued support of the Citrix community. Mr. Brown has earned worldwide recognition for his dedication to providing server-based computing professionals with proven solutions for implementation, infrastructure design, timesaving utilities, performance tips and best practices. DABCC.com is one of the most frequently visited sites internationally for server-based computing, virtualization information, and networking opportunities.
Larry Ritter
Product Management and Business Strategy
Larry Ritter brings 24 years of high technology product and general management experience to SalesAgent, LLC . He has a proven track record of identifying product opportunities, bringing them to market and managing ongoing operations. Currently, Mr. Ritter is Director of Product Management at ScriptLogic Corporation in Boca Raton, FL. Before joining ScriptLogic he worked with several companies developing product plans and strategies related to growing their Citrix business. In a 1 year period he managed the planning and go to market strategy of the SafeWord for Citrix product line at Secure Computing Corporation. This fast growing product line netted hundreds of new customers and resellers, built a strong Citrix relationship and gained significant market share. Previously, Mr. Ritter also worked at Citrix Systems for 3 years as Director, Senior Director and General Manager of the Citrix MetaFrame product line. During this time he directed the market planning of MetaFrame XP, numerous follow-on feature releases and key components including clients, web interface and security. Mr. Ritter actively hosted customer advisory council meetings and was a regular speaker at Citrix customer/partner events on a worldwide basis. Prior to Citrix he held strategic marketing and General Management positions during 15 years with the Hewlett Packard Company.
Mr. Ritter brings a well developed planning and strategic business skills to SalesAgent, LLC. His experience and skill-set provide market direction and business fit as we expand our business.
Fred Diamond
Marketing Management Advisor
Fred Diamond is committed to ensuring that his clients' marketing strategy is sound, workable, and targeted properly. He has over 17 years of marketing and business development success with a wide range of leading high tech companies including Apple Computer, Compaq, Compuware and high-flying software start-ups in e-commerce/Internet (OneSoft) and data storage (Network Storage Solutions). He has provided International marketing leadership for companies in enterprise software, hardware, e-commerce, Internet, professional services and data storage.
His marketing experience spans market planning, positioning, product marketing, communications, lead generation, and customer development. He specializes in developing realistic marketing programs that enable customer segmentation and targeting to hasten business development. He is highly regarded as an expert at figuring out the programs needed to develop and implement in order to effectively find new prospects in what he calls "the rush to customers."
Fred Diamond intimately knows the Northern Virginia/DC Metro markets, as well as the public sector markets, such as the Federal Government and Government contracting space and has international expertise with in-depth local know-how.