Brian Hager

Tradesparq is the first web portal to combine business networking tools with traditional online trade advertising. Post your products and services for international and domestic buyers to find and send inquiries. More importantly, connect directly with the buyers, view their details, send them real-time automatic product and service updates, and more. Basically, this is a site where Xing meets Alibaba.

* Profit & loss responsibility for new online advertising service; created pricing model and business projections/forecasts * Managed set-up of new office, including location of office, renovation of premises, registration of new entity, negotiation with vendors/suppliers in 6 months. * Set-up and manages a new telesales team of 130 sales people with recording and database tools * Collections in first year of operations totaled US$500K; grew billings by 300% in six months

* Thesis: International Entrepreneurship * Concentration in East Asian Studies * Mandarin Chinese Language Certificate * SPSS/Data Analysis and Statistics, Financial Accounting, Program Evaluation, Budgeting * Non-Profit Management, Public Organizational Theory, Policy Analysi