NORTH STAR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Corporate Sales and Strategy Expert
Adam has fifteen years of professional experience, gained in multinational environment within Manufacturing (FMCG, Graphics Art) and IT industries.
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- Cultural Intelligence Expert
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- Cultural Intelligence Expert
Andrej is a cross-cultural trainer, intercultural consultant and the first CQ (Cultural Intelligence) facilitator in Central and Eastern Europe certified by Cultural Intelligence Center, Michigan.
He has developed strong cross-cultural competencies while living and working in four different countries across Europe and Africa. He has a background in Sales and in HR at a national and global level. During his professional career in various multinational corporations he has developed a strong understanding of various national and organizational cultures and their implication on business behaviors.
As a cross-cultural trainer and mentor he helps individuals and organizations to improve their capability to work effectively across cultures. He holds a master degree in German and Latin-American culture as well as the master degree in higher education and pedagogy. He studied at universities in Slovakia, Austria and Spain.
Job Titles:
- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Born in Tehran and raised in Paris, Ardavan spent 8 years in the US's Wild West visiting thousands of American families and selling educational material door-to-door. He ranked in the top 1% in personal sales, and 1% of all team leaders. In 2007, he moved back to France and re-invented himself as an internet marketing executive, leading a team and then a whole company. Ardavan co-founded Tinyclues in 2013 and used his magical powers (which include an uncanny ability to come up with bad puns) to build a great company, from $0 to $10M in revenue on two continents (Europe & North America). Having recently stepped down from that role, he's now embarking on a new journey of building products and services that solve problems people face in their work and their personal life.
Job Titles:
- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Erik is a Respected mentor, sales and business coach. Author of "Success Made Simple".
Featured in Forbes.com, WallStreet Journal, CNN Money, TIME Mag, MSNBC, New York Post, Washington Post and many more. Record breaking salesman for Southwestern company where he worked as a sales manager.
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- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Jerome has over 20 years of experience in sales and general management. An MBA graduate from ESCP-Europe, he spent seven years as a salesman and manager for an American company.
He was a Coach in Sales of more than 500 people both in the US and Europe. For several years, he was Top France salesman and Leader of top sales teams. Jerome went on to manage sales-oriented businesses as a top executive and an entrepreneur, leading organizations of 1000+ people.
For the last 3 years, Jerome has had a full-time consulting activity including Direct-Selling and B- to-B sales.
Job Titles:
- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Katrin has thirteen years of experience in direct sales, recruiting and training salespeople. She spent 7 years as a sales person and a team leader for the oldest direct selling American company. After that she spent 6 years working for a worldwide fashion brand and opened up markets in Paris, Brussels, Luxembourg, Moscow etc. She has trained sales people in Canada, EU and Australia.
Has organized and led sales conferences and has performed in front of crowds of multiple hundred people. Has been on a cover of Estonian business magazine Director.
She also has a coaching background that is helpful when it comes to one on one training and selling.
Job Titles:
- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Kristi holds M.A. degree in law and her main field of expertise past 7 years has been business development in direct sales companies.
She started her sales career in 2006 in American direct sales company as a sales representative knocking on doors and was ranked as No 1 European first-year dealer. After 5 years of direct sales, combined with recruiting, training, coaching and leading of sales teams she helped to build up and was running a direct sales company providing B2C sales services in Estonia for companies like Alexela Energy, USS Security, Coop, Tele2 etc.
Past 4 years she was responsible for the legal side and international operations for worldwide custom suit brand LGFG Fashion House, helping to open up markets in Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Argentina. She is unique combination of a person who is "fluent" in all processes company needs to manage in order to operate internationally and grow its business.
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- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Livia has fourteen years of experience in Sales and Sales Management for a 160-year-old-American company, the forerunner of today's processes of di…
Lívia has fifteen years of experience in Sales and Sales Management for a 160-year-old American company, the forerunner of today's processes of direct sales in the US. For the past 6 years, she was responsible for building the company in Slovakia.
Coached thousands of people in Sales, developed top performers all over Europe. As far as achievements, she was the #1 Rookie European salesperson of 2005, Leader of the #2 sales team in Europe in 2006 , Record Holder in overall Sales in Slovakia She has a Master's Degree in Economic and Financial Math from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
In her free time, she enjoys yoga and long-distance running, she has completed 6 half-marathons so far.
Job Titles:
- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Paul Pachowicz- a sales consultant with fifteen years of experience passionate about marketing and Human2Human business relationships. Successfully managed sales teams that generated millions of dollars in revenue within European, North American, Australian, and Asian markets.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Przemek/Simon has over sixteen years of experience in sales and managing his own businesses. He spent five years as a salesman and manager for an American company.
He was a Coach in Sales of more than 500 people in the United States. As far as achievements, he was a Top European salesman of 2006, Leader of the 10th sales team in Europe in 2006 , Record Holder in sales for Poland. He applied the sales skills and success principles learnt in the USA and (co-)founded multiple successful businesses and brands on the European market, held presentations and speeches in various organizations including Stanford University via the US-Polish Trade Council.
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- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Romain is a young entrepreneur focus on ramp-up team of IT and Sales organisations. Graduated from IAE Business School of Lyon, he focused on IT consulting and outsourcing abroad, mainly in Central Europe. From Business Developer to Sales Manager passing by Service Delivery Manger, he opened his scope of technical competencies by focusing on quality
software delivery and SLAs/KPIs achievement. Based in Czech Republic and Poland, he helped Fortune 500 firms to build teams of 10 to 200 FTEs for 5 years.
Romain co-founded a Software House in Krakow, Poland, and a Foundation named the French Tech Cracovie labelised by the French government, and providing advices to the startup ecosystem of Poland.
He is now fully dedicated to the support of SMEs and major companies in their internationalization in Central Europe and their sales strategy.
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- Marketing Automation Expert
Romeo is an experienced marketer and sales person helping companies increase their marketing efficiency. By optimizing the used marketing channels he is capable of significantly increasing the size of trafic, with that the number of leads coming to the company and finaly transfering them in perfect time to the sales team.
He is a HubSpot, Google and Salesforce certified expert who will bring the most out of your marketing investment.
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- Partner at NorthStar Consulting Group
Sylwia has 15 years of experience in the IT industry in Europe and the United States. She specializes in B2B consultative sales.
For the last 10 years she has been working with software solutions which power Digital Transformation in banking, including bringing these products to a new market.
Her public speaking experience includes keynote presentations at multiple FinTech conferences in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Germany and Norway.
With a Master's degree in Psychology and early career in Public Relations, Sylwia helps sales teams to effectively convey their message and perfect written and verbal communication.