Ross School of Business • Enelow–Kursmark Executive Resume Toolkit Sales & Marketing Resumes • Page 18
MARTIN R. ALLISON
90880 Corigan Boulevard Home: (215) 555-7612
Philadelphia, PA 19083 mrallison@gmail.com Cell: (419) 505-6534
CH I EF MA RK E TIN G OF F I CE R / CHI E F OP E RA T I NG OFFI C ER
Sitting at the intersection of business, technology, and marketing with cross-functional leadership expertise in:
Marketing / New Business Development / Brand Management / Product & Service Innovation / Competitive Positioning
Profit & Loss Performance / Strategic Planning / Organizational Development / Process Improvement / Team Leadership
Unparalleled record of accountability-based leadership and double-digit revenue and profit gains while:
Bringing innovative new products, services, solutions, and technologies to B2B and B2C markets worldwide.
Building successful new ventures, new organizations, new partnerships, new channels, and new markets around the globe.
Revitalizing and repositioning non-performing brands and business organizations to capitalize on new opportunities.
Accelerating growth through the introduction of best management, operating, and marketing practices to achieve world-class status.
Recognized for breakthrough leadership, operating, business development, and go-to-market strategies and results
that have consistently dominated highly competitive markets worldwide:
Effectively and aggressively manage cost structures to achieve desired margins, profits, and other measurable outcomes.
Execute new ventures with emphasis on time-to-revenue while integrating the critical components that scaling brings to each organization.
Create operationally efficient, lean, and highly productive business organizations.
Build customer-centric organizations through insightful leadership, accountability, and business process redesign.
A leader in global marketing, brand positioning, marketing communications, and product marketing, honored with:
Four Awards for Most Innovative Ad Campaigns, Print and Television Commercials
Two PA One Club Most Innovative Marketing Awards
#1 Consumer Marketer, Ad Age Magazine
AC C OM P LIS H ME N TS & EXP E RIE N CE
Managing Director – Credence Technology LLC, Philadelphia, PA 2006 to Present
Start-up venture founded to deliver intelligent dispensing technologies incorporating SCM and CRM solutions for retail markets worldwide
Recruited by former colleague for most senior operating executive position with start-up corporation. Within 6 months, authored 3-year
business plan, defined product requirements, designed channel strategy, and developed brand management practices and marketing
plans. Focus on capturing venture capital and/or private equity investment to fund technology development, operating infrastructure,
and initial go-to-market strategies.
Chief Marketing Officer – DuoSystems, Philadelphia, PA 2003 to 2006
Global provider of digital printing technologies and software for office productivity, document management, workflow, and image processing
Senior Business Executive with full leadership responsibility for strategic planning, operations, HR, technology, and bottom-line profit of
54-person, cross-functional marketing organization (research, marcom, branding, e-business, media, field/channel marketing, product,
and web marketing). Managed $80 million annual budget. Reported directly to CEO. Challenged to identify and capture new business
opportunities and channel relationships with global go-to-market strategies and programs segmented by Enterprise (Fortune 500s),
OEMs, and National Accounts.
• Ignited lead generation performance 250% for software business over previous year through highly effective channel and field
marketing programs.
• Improved overall brand consideration by 30+% through re-branding and market repositioning of company.
• Grew revenues 23%, gross margins 18%, and profits 8% with launch of new Workflow Software and Commercial Print solutions.
• Improved sales readiness and lead conversion 60% by implementing the first internal CRM and Content Management Solutions.
• Created new product introduction process while instituting organizational “accountability” to better forecast market
acceptance, revenues, and profit performance when launching new products, solutions, and services.
• Increased core platform penetration with leading digital OEMs including IBM, Kodak, and Xerox.