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Volunteering

Ben was an active volunteer in his town of Long Grove, IL for nearly 10 years. With a recent move to North Carolina, he is now volunteering at the Wilmington Food Bank

2014 - 2024

Chicago Diabetes Fund | Board Member

Feed My Starving Children | Volunteer

Long Grove Residents Group | Organizer

Wilmington Food Bank | Volunteer

 

Volunteering

 
 

Treasurer, Board Member | Greater Chicago Diabetes Fund | 2021 - 2022

The Greater Chicago Diabetes Fund is a small non-profit who assists patients at Mt. Sinai Chicago in purchasing durable medical equipment for their Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. These benefits include insulin pumps and sensors to better manage their day-to-day healthcare.

 

Volunteer | Feed My Starving Children | Libertyville, Il | 2019 - 2023

Kids and adults of all ages hand-pack nutritious MannaPack® meals specifically designed to assist in reversing and preventing undernutrition. Volunteering occurs at our permanent sites and hundreds of MobilePack™ events nationwide.

 

Organizer | Long Grove Residents Group || 2016 - 2020

The Long Grove Downtown Residents Group (LGDRG) is designed to organize the approximated 60+ residents that live within or adjacent to the boundaries of Downtown Historic Long Grove on matters pertaining to the well-being of the residents.

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My career has been influenced heavily by both the entrepreneurial and corporate landscape. I come from the world of startups, having successfully built, launched and sold businesses earlier in my career.

In the past decade I have excelled in global companies, executing cross functional marketing campaigns and pipeline growth strategies across worldwide markets. With a laser focus on building businesses in markets, both new and established, I have launched products, accelerated existing pipelines and led teams across a series of functions and a series of business sectors both in direct (B2C) and partner led (B2B) business models.

More recently, I led a marketing organization at OpenText, formerly Micro Focus. My team handled the Application Modernization (AMC) and Information Management & Governance (IMG) product portfolios for all of North America and International regions worldwide. With nearly $70M of pipeline across my two product groups, we owned the entire marketing function including all the corporate marketing campaigns, partner marketing campaigns, digital campaigns, sales enablement, and pipeline campaigns.

Most recently, I worked as Director of Marketing, and Director of Demand Generation at mid sized software and technology firms, building marketing and demand generation disciplines at those agencies as well as supporting Enterprise sales leaders and their teams.