Donald Travis is a 20+ year Sales, Marketing and General Management executive whose work across a wide range of industries has boosted profits, created new revenue streams, solved strategic challenges to growth and improved efficiencies from the shop floor to the field sales force. He has served as President & CEO of three manufacturing companies with more than 140 employees and an average annual growth rate of 55%, and held senior leadership roles in a range of other industries. With experience in strategic analysis and planning, process improvement, turnarounds, product margin contribution analysis, database marketing, international business development, mergers and acquisitions, alliance and partnership development and supply-chain management, Mr. Travis brings to the table a depth of expertise that has proven crucial to delivering results in the engineered industrial products, building materials, field-service and capital equipment sectors.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Travis was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a $100 million, privately held manufacturer of material handling and storage products. He engineered a turnaround at the corporate level for four privately held companies in the molded plastics and contract electronic manufacturing industries in Minnesota and played a key role in attracting and closing over $40 million in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Travis’s background includes managing technology and e-sales processes. As director of e-marketplace business development for an online portal, he created and led sales and supply-chain activities and developed numerous strategic alliances with suppliers and other key partners. As president of a regional ISP, Mr. Travis initiated a turnaround plan for a service provider that achieved 80% annual growth in 12 months.

Mr. Travis holds an MBA from the University of New Haven and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds certifications as a Six Sigma Greenbelt and has been certified in Lean Manufacturing Processes.