Brad Foster
About Brad Foster
Brad Foster is a National Account Manager at Black Box Network Services, where he has worked for 20 years. He has a background in psychology and labor relations, and possesses expertise in unified communications and IT solutions.
Work at Black Box
Brad Foster has been employed at Black Box Network Services as a National Account Manager since 2004. In this role, he focuses on driving customer strategies with a global profit and loss perspective. His responsibilities include building partnerships with distributor organizations to enhance company offerings and achieve revenue goals. Foster's work involves aligning solutions with customers to maximize profitable growth and identifying additional opportunities for gross profit enhancement.
Previous Experience in Sales and Marketing
Before joining Black Box, Brad Foster held several key positions in sales and marketing. He worked at IBM as a Sales and Marketing Specialist from 2000 to 2001, covering the Western US. Following that, he served as an Account Manager at Mitel from 2002 to 2004 in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Area. Additionally, he was a VAR Team Lead at Merisel Inc from 1995 to 2000, gaining extensive experience in the IT and unified communications sectors.
Education and Expertise
Brad Foster studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Labor and Industrial Relations. His educational background supports his expertise in promoting unified communications and multiple premise solutions, managed services, hosted and cloud UC solutions, and enterprise video communications. Foster's skills include acquiring and developing new business ventures through various sales methodologies.
Business Development Skills
In his professional career, Brad Foster has demonstrated strong business development skills. He focuses on proposal presentations, cold-calling, and sales negotiations to acquire new business ventures. His approach is centered on a broad portfolio of IT and unified communications products and services. Foster's ability to drive the analysis and implementation of customer strategies contributes to the overall success of the organizations he has worked with.