Most recently, Ted was a pioneer in the antioxidant beverage business, where, as founder and CEO of Purple Beverage Company, Inc., he oversaw the development of its well-received functional beverage. He was founder and Chairman of Farmbid.com, an agriculture Internet portal ranked by Forbes as one of the "Top 200 B2B Companies To Watch in 2000". He broke new ground in the direct marketing industry by partnering with a pay-per-call giant and creating the second largest fulfillment house in the industry.
Ted's entrepreneurial spirit has led to feature articles in numerous publications, including Beverage World, Business Week, Consumer's Digest, Forbes, Fortune, Health, Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, to name a few.
Jerry Rayman has more than forty years of both practical hands-on and executive sales and marketing management experience. He is very well connected in the natural products industry and has a proven successful record of accomplishments. Jerry has built businesses and achieved profitable sales and revenues for various consumer product companies. He established some of the most successful broker networks in the industry. He's been instrumental in numerous startup scenarios, many of which have grown into very successful industry brands.
Jerry began his career in the nutrition industry with Sundown Vitamins. He worked to grow their business model, which was created from a small vitamin mail order business, by developing it exponentially into Rexall Sundown Vitamins and subsequently Rexall Showcase International, the direct sales division. When a decision was made to move into the retail marketplace, Jerry developed the Rexall Sundown business infrastructure for their entrance. He implemented retail distribution by establishing a broker network and supporting it with merchandising reps, transforming the company into the most successful retail dietary supplement product line in the industry.
Jerry's sales, marketing and distribution achievements created the most successful supplement business in the natural products industry with pioneering blockbuster products such as Osteo Bi-Flex® which continues to be the #1 joint health product in the world.
He has also been instrumental in developing customers in network marketing, direct response, and infomercial channels such as:
• Rexall-Sundown and Rexall Showcase International, which grew from zero dollars
to over 1 billion in sales and was sold to Royal Numico for $1.8 billion
• Enforma Systems grew from zero to over $125 million in less than 2 years
• Pantene Hair Products grew from $1 million to $30 million in sales
Greg Barna is a visionary with a wealth of knowledge and exceptional career experiences that put him in an elite class of market development icons.
His passion and expertise is in the nutritional products industry, although he has a broad base of knowledge from his work in the medical device business, charitable trusts, patents, Internet Service Providers, finance and distribution. This foundation duly enabled him to refine and perfect Standard Business Practices to achieve excellent results for both start-up and growing businesses.
Greg has more than twenty years experience in network marketing, both as a successful independent entrepreneur and as the CEO of a start-up direct sales company. Within two years of his coming on board, it was a company with zero debt and $40,000,000 in sales. He achieved this by increasing proprietary product offerings and expanding distribution both nationally and internationally.
He is an expert in international expansion, having learned the ropes while bringing fourteen offices to eight countries, including Canada, Russia, Israel and South Africa.
Greg has assisted numerous companies by helping some to achieve growth and prosperity and other already dynamic companies to manage rapid growth. Greg's abilities to plan, implement, lead and track business strategies have enabled him to grow businesses that achieve industry leadership, profitability, employee gratification and customer satisfaction.
Greg's "Lead by Example" management style strives to motivate excellence in individual and team performance and help companies reach their full market potential while dodging the numerous pitfalls that cause companies to fail.