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Greg Johnston

Toronto, Ontario

Products, Marketing and Social Media guy.
See more at http://about.me/gregjohnston

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Entrepreneurship

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Product Management

Marketing Strategy

Business Strategy

CRM

Product Marketing

Business Process

Account Management

Inventory Management

Member since May 2012

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Entrepreneurship

Mentoring

Product Management

Marketing Strategy

Business Strategy

CRM

Product Marketing

Business Process

Account Management

Inventory Management

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Greg Johnston

Toronto, Ontario

Products, Marketing and Social Media guy.
See more at http://about.me/gregjohnston

$1.00/min

Greg donates to Pay it Forward ($70.52)

7

7 Calls

11

11 Reviews

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Entrepreneurship Mentoring Product Management Marketing Strategy Business Strategy CRM Product Marketing Business Process Account Management Inventory Management

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Entrepreneurship

> Involved in 2 past statups in Healthcare and Communications sector.
> Currently launching my own startup regarding online mentoring for startups, entrepreneurs, career and business professionals.
> I am a student of Lean Startup including Product Lean Development and Growth Hacking.

I have a genuine passion to serve others, a desire to make things work above the status quo and a conviction that simpler is better.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/gregjjohnston/

Connect with me and I would be glad to help find a mentor for you. I have access to a great pool of Business, Startup, Career experts.

http://thementorplusproject.blogspot.ca/

Marketing and Product Management

> Over 20 years of experience in the Hi-Tech, Healthcare and media communication industries.
> I have worked 12+ years in IT channel distribution and understand supply chain management very well. Including channel marketing and product management.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/gregjjohnston/

CRM and Salesforce.com

> Over the last 5 years I have done consulting for new startups that require Salesforce.com and CRM development. I am a strong advocate of business process development.
> Salesforce.com Alliance Partner
> Everything comes down to process.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/gregjjohnston/

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Greg's insightful approach to understanding our process flow yielded brilliant results for our organization. His IT knowledge base is extensive and proved to be a valuable resource. we will most definitely use his services in the future.

Trey Dowdy Source: LinkedIn

Greg is a seasoned business leader and effective communicator. As my Senior Project Manager, he was always ready and eager to take on new challenges, and without fail, he always over-delivered. Greg is a committed and loyal person and he deploys whatever necessary resources he has to efficiently and effectively complete the task/s at hand.

He is methodical and organized and is confident in his abilities to provide only high-quality deliverables. Greg can wear many hats: he has years of hands-on project management experience and also understands emerging technologies; he embraces them and takes on any challenge such technologies may pose during the course of his assignments. Greg is also an astute businessman, and he knows how to build and nurture relationships. He has a natural knack for developing plans to grow business and seamlessly manages the entire process. He's always looking for ways to improve the status quo.

Greg is also an easy-to-approach and easy-to-get-along-with person. He easily integrates into teams and collaborates well with his peers. He also works very well independently with very little or no supervision. In fact, once he's been briefed, or has collected the intelligence he needs to complete even the most complex and wide-ranging of tasks, he delivers on time and on budget. Overall, he's a well-rounded person and has a great attitude toward all that he does. He has a sense of affiliation vs. a sense of entitlement, toward his work and employer. Greg is truly a gem!

Would I hire him again? In half a heartbeat!

Nicholas Di Cuia, MBA Candidate Source: LinkedIn

Greg is a dedicated professional who drives results by utilizing his strategic thinking and solid inter-personal skills. During his tenure Greg demonstrated his leadership by delivering well thought out annual plans and programs, and by establishing good external and internal partnerships. I feel comfortable in recommending Greg as a team player who delivers.

Dorothea Schramm Source: LinkedIn

Greg's role as Senior Manager in the Product Managment team involved managing the largest vendor for Synnex -- Hewlett Packard. Greg did a fantastic job of managing HP from a strategic perspective, a tactical perspective and a day to day sales and profitability perspective. This was one of the most high profile roles in my department and Greg was able to manage the fine line of keeping HP happy while maximizing the overall business for Synnex.

Alex Nobile Source: LinkedIn

Greg worked on my Canadian Marketing team at Merisel based in Toronto, which was sold to Synnex. He was a project manager for our in-house agency managing technology vendor marketing needs for our value-added resellers, retailer and internet customers. He helped grow our Canada marketing revenues to $30+ million and was promoted to a Sr. Product Marketing Manager. He’s a personable, humourous, organized and persistent manager who likes to generate new ideas and make things happen to better market products & services.

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Greg was an integral part of our success as product managers at HP. Greg made sure that he is on top of his forecast and makes sure that sales force are up to speed on new product launches. Greg is a good professional to work with.

Marwin AL Najjar Source: LinkedIn

Greg was always enthusiastic in his role as the HP Product Manager at Synnex. He brought a friendly, partner oriented approach to the role and was a pleasure to work with.

Andrew Weir Source: LinkedIn

While working with Greg for a number of years it was certainly a great experience dealing with such an excellent member of the team, I could always rely on Greg to provide the best product knowledge when it came to the HP product Line. Always looked forward to working with Greg on a daily basis.

Wayne Thompson Source: LinkedIn

Greg brings an amazing personality to the table, he is a very driven, smart businessman vet very approachable. Greg is the type of person that when he enters a room you can feel his presence, and with his personality he is sure to add great atmosphere to any team he works with. I personally did not have the opportunity but I feel Greg would be a great leader to work for.

Chris Willard Source: LinkedIn

Greg is a Tenacious and very detailed oreinted individual who likes to get the job done well. While working with him, Greg always made sure that his team members are well informed, he is very strategic and goal oriented.

It was always a pleasure to work with Greg, I wish him success in his future endeavors.

Anil Kaushik Source: LinkedIn

Greg was a tremendously insightful leader helping our team spearhead net new business in an extremely competitive market. His calm and focused attitude made it easy to approach him at discuss anything.

Gord Gilroy Source: LinkedIn

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