William Sager

2058 Gary Court, Palm Harbor, Florida · (818) 445-0808

 

Senior Account Manager | Technical Engineering Sales  | Technology Account Executive 

 

Qualifications Summary

 

An accomplished, results-driven sales professional with over 15 years of sales experience focused on technology and telecommunications companies.  Expertise in Account Management, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Product Support and Channel Sales and Management.  Proven ability to interface with engineers to ensure product solutions meet customer requirements and satisfaction.  Exceptional communicator with demonstrated success building relationships with upper management of Fortune 150 accounts.  Track record for exceeding multi-million dollar sales quotas.

 

Qualification Highlights

 

·Technology Sales                      ·Account Management                 ·Large Network of CEO/COO/CIO

·Telecommunications                 ·Value Added Solutions               ·Team Leadership

·Start-Up Experience                  ·Software-as-a-Service Sales       ·Cable And Satellite Experience

·Business Development              ·Legal/Contractual Base               ·Quota Attainment

 

Experience Highlights

 

Account Management and Supervision

·Performed multiple functions and consistently above sales quota as an account manager with a major      telecommunications company handling several Fortune 150 accounts. Coordinated team efforts to answer large RFP’s, maintain customer service and requirements. Responsible for signing up a major entertainment client to a tier one telecom’s first master hosting agreement, moving many sub-divisions and servers out from one hosting facility to another.

Business Development and Web Start-Up Experience

·Oversaw launch and development on one of the first online video streaming entertainment companies, including product acquisition, scheduling, contractual licensing and negotiation and technical specifications and strategy to deploy the service. Arranged marketing contracts and services.

·Business development and sales for one of the first Internet incubators. Developed methodology for licensing and acquisition of content across ancillary verticals and Television and Film windows. Sourced and negotiated contracts and participated in developing the strategy for the companies incubated.

·Sales of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to Fortune 150 companies using industry leading eCRM software, including BEA Systems, Broadvision, ATG, Epiphany, and Vignette. Identification of customers pain points and suggestions of appropriate software solutions using a team approach. Working closely with sales engineers to meet all customer requirements and launch portals and solutions on a timely basis.

 Cable Television Programming and Video-On-Demand Satellite Services

·Founded one of the cable industries first pay-per-view satellite services, acquired first run movies from Hollywood. Involved with affiliate marketing to large cable MSO’s (multiple system operators). Programming experience and licensing for overseas direct broadcast children’s channel in Malaysia across several continents.

 

 

Employment History

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER - Mobile SaaS - Hipcricket + AugMe Technologies, Inc.   (OTC: AUGT)

NATIONAL DIRECTOR, VIDEO-ON-DEMAND GROUP,  iConstituent.com

PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, C.O.O.,  iWatchnow.com

GLOBAL ACCOUNT DIRECTOR,  MCI/Verizon Telecommunications

SALES DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,  idealab.com

VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMMING AND ACQUISITIONS, Worldwide Sports and Entertainment

DIRECTOR OF TELEVISION,  MGM/United Artists

EXECUTIVE VP PROGRAMMING AND FOUNDER, The People’s Choice PPV

DIRECTOR OF AFFILIATE RELATIONS, Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable

 

 

Education

 

New Lincoln School, Manhattan- New York City, New York.

University of Wisconsin – Madison. Bachelor of Arts, Radio, TV and Film with a concentration in Communications Law

 

Technical Knowledge

Equipment infrastructures, servers (TCP/IP, VOIP and POP), Windows (95, 98, NT and Vista), Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point, online video codec’s and encoding formats (Divx, Xvid, MPEG, .Avi). Some HTML coding.

 

Affiliations and Blog

 

Member of the Business and Finance Blog Network, Forbes.com

Blog: ‘Serendipity 2011’ : http://williamsager.com/