Gilbert Vendryes Named a Professional of the Year in Business Development

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, September 30, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- September 30, 2016, Gilbert Vendryes, Business Transformation Strategist specializing in global projects, organization transformation and executive leadership with VMware, has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in Business Development. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only small selections of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership.

About Gilbert Vendryes:
Gilbert Vendryes is a business transformation executive who focuses on global projects involving mobilizing distinct cross-functional teams, presenting business opportunities, and driving organizational optimization. As a key contributor to change management, Mr. Vendryes is an expert at formulating and executing strategies, programs, and go-to-market models. Fluent in English and French and conversational in German, he offers a unique international approach in maximizing channel and web capabilities, driving line of business migration to a digital route as well as delivering business transformation projects to support transactional business.

Beginning his career as a Sales Manager for Apple, he was able to sustain a leading market share while creating and executing sales strategies. During his time with EMC in Paris he steered the company's success in the SMB marketplace across software and hardware where he overhauled the organization to deliver double to triple digit revenue growths during the first 3 quarters.

Most recently, Mr. Vendryes boosted the average transaction size and penetrated higher market segments with his role as Senior Director, Web Strategy, Global Customer Operations at VMware Corp. He earned continual promotions during the nearly 10 years he was with the organization, based on his ability to enhance global channel relationships, define processes to support continuous improvements, and overhaul processes to sustain long-term channel loyalty.

Mr. Vendryes holds a three-year technical degree in computer science and sales & marketing from the University Institute of Technology in Strasbourg, France. He actively participates in a series of non-profit organizations in California, and serves the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art as Board Member.

About Worldwide Branding
For more than 15 years, Worldwide Branding has been the leading, one-stop-shop, personal branding company, in the United States and abroad. From writing professional biographies and press releases, to creating and driving Internet traffic to personal websites, our team of branding experts tailor each product specifically for our clients' needs. From health care to finance to education and law, our constituents represent every major industry and occupation, at all career levels.

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