Pete Kokuzian

About Pete Kokuzian

Progressive General Management business leader with exceptional operational skills in all facets of P&L management, channel/end user development, sales, marketing, supply chain operations, strategic planning, and change management. Cumulative work experience includes working at privately held companies as well as publicly traded companies. An executive with proven ability in analytics, re-allocation of existing resources, strong team-building/communication skills, driving a culture of accountability, and implementing metric systems to ensure continuous improvement and mutual accountability across all aspects of the cross functional teams.

Experience

1. Principal

   Force Partners

   Jan 2017 — Present · Oak Brook, IL

   Principal and co-founder of a lighting agency named \"Force Partners\", which represents Eaton’s Lighting Solutions in the greater Chicago marketplace. Force Partner\'s mission will be to transfer the knowledge, by educating and enabling their customers, in order to capitalize on the emerging technology trends, while offering a differentiated value proposition for their ecosystem channel partners. As technology continues to advance across the lighting industry, the agency will work with it\'s ecosystem channel partners to enable connected enterprise solutions for it\'s mutual end user customers.

Education

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  BSEE

• National University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Skills

• Solution Selling
• Leadership Development
• Sales Presentations
• Microsoft Crm
• Sales
• Solution Implementation
• Sales Plan
• Change Management
• Global Strategy
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Global Business Development
• Cultural Diversity
• Leadership
• Sales Operations
• Leveraging Strategic Partnerships
• Sales Management
• Strategic Leadership
• Direct Sales
• International Sales
• Cultural Awareness