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Mr. Thompson is founder, president and CEO of The Mindshare group of companies. He brings more than 14 years experience in the high-tech distribution business to Mindshare International. Mr. Thompson's career includes senior executive positions with companies such as Micron of Boise, Idaho, BioLink Technologies of Miami, Florida, and EmergeCore Networks of Boise, Idaho. In his positions he has been directly responsible for strategic alliances with Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Check Point, Softbank, Ford Motor Company, Intel, and Williams Communications.Most of Mr. Thompson's professional efforts have been focused on the international scene. He has recruited over 200 distributors in 80 countries during his career. He has been directly responsible for three joint ventures with companies such as Softbank in Japan and has served as a voting member of four boards of directors.Having lived overseas in the Asia-Pacific region for more than five years, Mr. Thompson maintains a robust knowledge of local cultures that drives his love of international business. He has done business in every major economy around the globe. Mr. Thompson has a degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University and after living in Tokyo, reads, writes, and speaks the language fluently. | 