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Jeff Gentry

 
Sr. VP, Business Development - Xynyx Inc.
 
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Company Name : Xynyx Inc.
 
Company Website : www.xynyx.com
 
Company Address : 7542 St. Andrews Rd.
, West Palm Beach, FL,
United States,
 
Jeff Gentry Profile :
Sr. VP, Business Development - Xynyx Inc.
 
Jeff Gentry Biography :

Jeff Gentry joins Xynyx after enjoying a varied and extensive 25-year business management career. His recent projects include a key Strategic Consulting assignment for the Board of a leading Internet Wireless firm, AbeamA.com, to his role as Vice President, Marketing, for the Technology Recruiting firm, BrainBuzz.com. Prior to this assignment, Gentry was CBS SportsLine’s Director of Merchandising responsible for the development, launch and growth of CBS SportsLine’s e-commerce platform. The success of this effort was such that SportsLine was able to realize $20 Million in profitable e-commerce revenues in 1999, which resulted in the sale to MVP.com for over $200 Million in cash and equity for these venues in December 1999. Gentry’s career in Internet Marketing began at Home Shopping Network, when he was President of HSN Interactive, a division of HSN. In this capacity, he led HSN’s successful 1993 entry into interactive marketing with e-commerce sites on CompuServe, Prodigy, and America Online. It was Home Shopping Network’s acquisition of the Internet Shopping Network in August of 1994, which Gentry found and led for HSN that proved his early vision of the Internet as a successful vehicle for electronic commerce. Under Gentry’s leadership, the Internet Shopping Network became the most trafficked, largest revenue producer and best rated e-commerce site on the Web as of July 1995, according to a poll conducted by InterActive Age magazine. Also in 1995, Gentry introduced at the Dallas National Cable TV Association (NCTA) Conference the world’s first operational interactive multi-media shopping service for the PC via a high-speed cable modem network. In addition to this development work, which he conducted with Intel, Gentry and his team worked with Microsoft on the development of interactive e shopping for the Microsoft Network (MSN) and for various Microsoft Interactive TV trials. Prior to his appointment as President of HSN Interactive in 1993, Gentry was the HSN Senior Vice President responsible for new product development and merchandising supply chain operations for HSN’s billion-dollar revenue TV retailing unit. In this capacity he led a staff of over 100 associates and drove HSN’s merchandising revenues to over $1 Billion annually. Gentry’s expertise in brand marketing was honed in previous executive positions with consumer product manufacturers Sunbeam Corporation and Pollenex Corporation, both then of Chicago, Illinois. His career also includes stints with his own Internet Marketing Consultancy and as Marketing Vice President for QCS, now SourcingLink.Net. During his career his clients have included firms such as Wal-mart, Kmart, Sears, JC Penney, Walgreen’s, Eckerd Drugs, PetsMart, Carrefour of France, and many other leading retailers. Additionally, Gentry has spoken to a wide audience, including a role as a featured speaker at the first Jupiter International Online Retail Conference in Brussels, Belgium, and at other major USA Internet conferences. Gentry, a graduate of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, holds nine U.S. patents for inventions in consumer product categories that represent a billion dollars in worldwide retail sales. He has been active over the years with the National Housewares Manufacturers, the National Retail Federation, and other professional associations.

 
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