Jei McKinney

About Jei McKinney

A go-getter, who makes things happen! Jei McKinney has a proven track record of delivering business results in both B to B (business-to-business) and consumer marketing for over 20 years. Jei is highly skilled in identifying new opportunities, developing partnerships, leading projects and getting the business results. Her signature strengths include visionary thinking by connecting seemingly different phenomena, and perseverance. “Jei has the most staying power, persistent and pleasant” summed up by one of Jei’s customers. Additionally, Jei has a gift of explaining highly technical information in a way that is easily understood by non-technical people. She won the Herman Stone Technical Excellence Award for her presentation “Art and Science of Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials\" at the Polyurethane Foam Association in 2014. In 2015 she won the best Presentation Award in Polyurethane Technical Conference. Jei has great interpersonal skills, and draws out the best in each person that she works with.Jei is passionate about new business, and believes that innovation is absolutely the life blood of any business. Her experience spans:• Finding and engaging the right business partners;• Identifying and developing new businesses for new and existing technologies;• Identifying and developing new international markets for existing products;• Creating new consumer brand, and the product line to support the brand;• Use innovation to fuel growth of some of the world\'s biggest consumer packaged goods brand with 5+ brands at about $500M sales;• Brand management for some of the world’s famous brands;• Trade and customer marketing by managing some of the world’s biggest retailers.

Experience

1. Senior Business Development Manager

   Encapsys

   Sep 2009 — Present

   Deliver profitable business opportunities for both Encapsys® LLC, and it\'s potential partners by - understanding the needs that Encapsys® microencapsulation technology can meet- identifying strategic markets and partners- developing new collaborative partnerships with companies interested in the customized commercial solutions using the Encapsys technology.