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Rick Barnett

CEO

Myrtle Beach, SC, United States43 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 200% of quota for two consecutive years.
  • President's Club winner multiple times across various companies.
  • Expert in channel partner management and distribution sales.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned SaaS sales professional with extensive experience in distribution and channel partner management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distribution Sales

Other Skills

Channel PartnersSolution SellingCloud ComputingAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentManaged ServicesDirect SalesCustomer RetentionCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Professional ServicesStorageSalesMarketingStrategic ConsultingTelecommunications

About

Retired Direct and Indirect Sales professional of IT. Sales Club winner with 9 companies, including Data Networks, Storage HW / SW sales, Consulting, and Channel Partner Management.

Experience

43 yrs 11 mos
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Current Experience

Guitars. cigars. doing my thing.

Retired

Dec 2025Present · 6 mos · Surfside Beach SC · On-site

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Semi Retired

Mar 2025Nov 2025 · 8 mos · Surfside Beach, SC · Remote

  • Part-time sales operations.

Progress

2 roles

Distribution Manager

Dec 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Surfside Beach, South Carolina, United States

  • Finished 2023 at 111% of quota and achieved 100% Club by assisting in expanding the market reach of Progress products through two-tier distribution model.
Distribution Sales

Sr. Partner Account Manager

Jul 2022Dec 2022 · 5 mos · Surfside Beach, South Carolina, United States

  • Supported partners with sales enablement of Progress solutions: file-transfer, load balancing, network monitoring and reporting, and workflow optimization.

Veeam software

Partner Manager - Southeast

Sep 2019Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Alpharetta, Ga

  • Partner sales enablement, finishing 2021 at 100% and 2020 at 122%. President's Club 2020 and Channel MVP for Q3 (thanks to a great team!).

Lead out software

Business Development Manager

Jun 2019Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Provided biz dev for Lead Out Software, an innovative software and consulting company.

K2 software (now nintex)

Partner Account Manager

Dec 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Supported partners in business of providing Intelligent Process Automation and digital workflows.

Arrow electronics

2 roles

Strategic Account Manager

Mar 2014Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Channel lead for 10 of the company's top accounts with combined revenues in 2017 of over $350M. Helped grow revenues within strategic accounts by 14% YoY.
Distribution Sales

Sr. Channel Manager - HPE Business Group

Aug 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Worked with team to manage and recruit partners in HP ESSN group.
  • Grew revenues from $80M to $132M in 2 1/2 years, averaging over 25% YoY growth.
  • Recruited 7 new VARs, totaling over $35M in new annual revenues in 2014.
  • Achieved 134% of quota and was President’s Circle / top sales performer for HPE business unit.
Distribution Sales

Avnet technology solutions

Account Development Manager

Apr 2005Jun 2011 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Southeast

  • Managed southeast VARs and vendors, resulting in profitable infrastructure sales, consulting revenue and managed services.
  • Grew revenues in 6 years from $65M to $120M via organic growth, new products & recruiting.
  • Introduced X-sell solutions for HP, IBM, HDS, EMC, NetApp, etc., averaging 13% YoY growth.
  • Recognized as top group sales performer in 2010 and Camelot & Excalibur Sales Club winner.
Distribution Sales

Paaridian technologies (now softchoice)

Consulting Sales Executive

Oct 2003Apr 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos · Southeast

  • Provided IT consulting services with this IBM systems integrator.

Cybera

Sr. Account Manager

Jun 2002Oct 2003 · 1 yr 4 mos · Atlanta Metropolitan Area

  • Direct and channel sales for managed services, including VPN, Frame Relay and high-speed DSL

Inrange technologies (now broadcom)

Sr. Account Executive

Apr 2000Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Sold SAN fibre channel solutions direct and via channel partners. President's Club, 160% of quota.

Storagetek (now oracle)

Solutions Sales Executive

Jan 1997Jan 2000 · 3 yrs · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Sold consulting and integrated 3rd party solutions to the top US telecom companies. Achieved 200% of quota for 2 years and was the Top Solutions Sales Exec, achieving President's Circle twice. Part of a team that developed managed backup and storage service model (i.e. "cloud") in 1998.

Cable & wireless

National Account Manager - Data Communications

Jun 1995May 1997 · 1 yr 11 mos · Atlanta, Ga

  • Sold public and private managed network cloud solutions.

Adp autonet, bellsouth / sprint / gte telenet

Account Executive / Systems Engineer / Network Engineer

Jan 1981Jan 1995 · 14 yrs · Atlanta / New York City / Washington DC

  • Started IT career in DC Metro as Network Engineer in early days of "cloud" technology, later becoming Systems Engineer in NYC and Account Executive in Atlanta. Sold and managed many large Fortune 500s.

Education

James Madison University

Business Administration (BBA)

Jan 1976Jan 1980

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