A former CEO who held roles from VP of Sales to Chief Operations Officer describes his philosophy of mentoring younger professionals he sees as underestimating themselves. He credits his own mentors, Gray Hall and Dave Colsanti, for the opportunities that shaped his two-decade executive career, and now seeks out people to stretch and develop.
I've had some great people around me and I've had a lot of opportunity and I try to pay that back. You know, I try— one of the things I try to do when I go into business is find, find the people, you know, where I was back in 2000 and give them the opportunity, people that are probably smarter than they realize and giving them the opportunity to, you know, some of the opportunities that I have, which is to take practical experience and apply it to something that's maybe, you know, sort of beyond your skill set a bit. Yeah. And so that's, you know, that, that, that's kind of what I've done over the last 20 years. In all cases, kind of regardless of what my role has been in these businesses— and I've run sales, I was a VP of Sales, I was an EVP of Sales, I ran a sales and marketing function, I was the Chief Operations Officer for a business, I'm the CEO— and so I've— and in all cases, I've been, you know, kind of board level and at the executive level. Uh, and, and again, that's, you know, guys like Gray Hall and Dave Colsanti, who's still on the board of directors for my business today, gave me that opportunity.
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