Mr. Paul Benson adds over 38 years of sales and sales management experience that is based on 17 years of corporate and 21 years in private enterprise /entrepreneurial experience. He specializes in opening new accounts by creating a database, tactical plan, assuring that goals and Milestones are met, and then closing the sale. Long term goals and contracts are his specialty as he creates a team and works to see that all members are executing their role throughout the transaction’s final success.

Mr. Benson has for the past 6 years been consulting/trading in various types of commodities with special focus on the petroleum industry. As he puts it, “I have working 6 years going on 60 as it feels that way”, but in those 6 years he has focused on and received indebt on-job training in Banking, negotiating & writing agreements, and product logistics. He has a full grasp of the issues at hand and thus he heads our trading department by utilizing relationships that have been gained over the past several years.

Mr. Benson worked for Corporate America in Executive Sales and management at NCR, Data General, and Hewlett Packard. He started selling NCR Information Technologies, turnkey computer systems, at the beginning of his 17-year career to Manufacturing & Distribution. He likes to say that during that time he sold, “Motherhood and Apple Pie” as the technology was very much in its infancy. While at Data General he was the Sales Manager for a $62M office automation bid process to a multi-Bullion dollar utility, Tennessee Valley Authority, which was a single project team focus for over 3.5 years. By the end of his Career with Hewlett Packard he was the Major Account Executive in charge of sales for NationsBank (Bank of America), Wachovia Bank (part of Wells Fargo Bank), Federal Express, Crestar Bank, State of Tennessee (state government), Philip Morris and others.

After having several award winning years with Hewlett Packard Company, Mr. Benson started a mid-range Hewlett Packard and IBM integration company. As a startup he went from Zero to a multi-Million-dollar business becoming an IBM Premier Partner. Under his direct management, PMi Systems Integrator was an Award nominee for the prestigious IBM Beacon award in E-Business solutions – this is a single Software solutions Partner award, World Wide, which is granted to ONLY one company. Success breed’s success, thus Bellsouth (Now AT&T) appointed Mr. Benson’s company as a direct Business-to-Business solutions sales partner and for many years it was a successful Tampa, FL call center for Spanish owned business sales.

Success started early in Mr. Benson career; while in University he was one of only of two men, in University history, that was appointed Assistant Dean of Men during his Junior year. Additionally, during that time he successfully had second job in door-to-door sales. Immediately following college in 1975, a retail store was opened which for the next 25 years allowed Mr. Benson to have a finger on the pulse of private enterprise as his start up family business would survive and thieve. Learning to close sales started early; in college, in small business, and then in his professional life it gave him the ability to focus on a goal and plan the sale, short or long term, the positive result is a given as it is ONLY a matter of time!!