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Frank Watts
Venture Lab Coach

Frank has an extensive background in sales, sales management and channel development.  As a consultant he has provided sales productivity services to High Tech companies since 1985.  Frank’s past clients include Apple, HP, KLA-Tencor, Arthur Anderson, Printronix, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, UTA, Lexis Nexis as well as many other hardware, software and service companies of all sizes.

Frank has served as General Manager, VP Sales, and/or EVP Sales for Wang Laboratories (Office Automation), SHL Systemhouse (Now part of EDS), MAI Basic Four (Vertical market software & hardware), Logic Works (data modeling tools now part of CA) & TopSpeed Corporation (Programming tools and web development).

He has been a guest speaker at many high tech industry events on matters of sales, sales management and channel development.  His column “Sales tools” ran in CMPs channel magazine VARBusiness for over 5 years.  He has given his seminars extensively in the US as well as Canada, UK, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan.

He is married with 5 children and 9 grandchildren. He has lived in Orlando since 1999.

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