Management Team

Jason Stangroom is the CEO of Revenue First Group Inc., a Burlington, Ontario based business coaching and advisement firm. Revenue First Group Inc. specializes in integrating sales, marketing, financial management, and business strategies into one outbound revenue capture program to maximize corporate revenue growth.

Jason is a Certified Business Performance Improvement Coach with the Value Forward Network. Jason works with senior executives of start-ups, privately held companies, and Fortune 1000 companies in both the private and public sector. He is a staff writer for the largest marketing and sales strategy newsletter in the world, BDM News, with over 160,000 opt-in subscribers in 110 countries world-wide and with the CEO newsletter called CEO Management.

As an internationally schooled MBA graduate, Jason has worked with Canadian, US, Australian, European and Asian based companies to create successful international business revenue growth programs.

Jason has been a National Sales and Marketing Manager and Territory Sales Manager in a wide-range of industries and sizes from mid-sized international manufacturers of consumer packaged goods such as Wenger Swiss Army and Primus AB to Fortune 1000 pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline.

In 2005, Jason and his wife Natsiri saw a service gap in the commercial cleaning industry. From scratch, they started a professional commercial cleaning company that was on a million dollar run-rate within 4 years. Using the Value Forward Method that Jason currently teaches to his clients, they grew their business to 75 employees and 60 clients. In the Fall of 2010, Jason & Natsiri sold their lucrative commercial cleaning business.

Paul DiModica is a Revenue First Group advisor and is the founder and CEO of Value Forward Network and the senior practice consultant in our group. As a best selling author, Paul speaks internationally on marketing, strategy and sales best practices.

Paul is the editor of the world’s largest sales, strategy and marketing strategy newsletter called Value Forward BDM News read by over 100,000 weekly subscribers in over 110 countries. Additionally, Paul is the editor of CEO Management, a specialty newsletter published for senior executives.

Paul is the author of the best selling book Value Forward Selling: How to Sell to Management, as well as Sales Management Power Strategies,Value Forward Marketing: How to Use Thought Leadership to Turn Prospects Into Customers and his new book CEO Success Strategies.

Prior to launching the Value Forward Network, Paul spent over 20 years in business as a Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Vice President of Strategy, Vice President of Operations, Chief Operating Officer and company Founder in private, family-run and public companies with annual revenues up to $900 million.

Paul has been featured or interviewed by the New York Times, Investors Daily, Fox News, Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Magazine, CIO Magazine, CFO Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Training Magazine, Marketing Magazine, Transport Times, Computer World Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, Chicago Tribune, The Cleveland Sunday Paper, Kansas City Small Business Monthly, The Manager's Intelligence Report, Agent's Sales Journal, Executive Travel Magazine, Wisconsin Professional Journal, Time Compression Technologies Magazine, Minorities and Women Magazine, Broker Agent News, World Fence News, Affluent Magazine, Value Added Partners, The Merchant Magazine, Pennsylvania Business Central Magazine, and many others.

Fred Corsentino is a senior management executive with a broad range of experience in all aspects of sales, marketing and business development to large and small enterprises across many vertical markets as well government, education and healthcare organizations.

Fred is a business strategist that has produced an excellent track record of growth for numerous companies. Throughout his career, Fred has demonstrated strong leadership and management skills that create highly motivated organizations. He has specialized in building businesses from early stages as a start-up or within a large organization.

Prior to the Value Forward Network, Fred has served as Executive Vice President of World Wide Sales and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for private and public companies.  He was also the CEO and Founder of a successful private start up.  Fred has most recently been the President of Saturn Ventures, specializing in CEO Coaching, for five years.

Fred has a Bachelor of Science from New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, both with honors. He enjoys the challenge of combining his educational, corporate and entrepreneurial background with the Value Forward Network system to increase his client’s business performance.

Rick Erling is a Certified Management Consultant and Certified Executive Coach at the Value Forward® Network. Since his arrival in January 2007, Rick has overseen a diverse mix of key projects with executives and leaders from small and mid-tier businesses up to Global 1000 corporations.

Before joining the Value Forward Network, Rick spent over 20 years in senior corporate leadership positions. In the 1990's, Rick's professional reputation was first validated by becoming nationally recognized as a manufacturing evangelist at Textron and Intergraph Corporation. Following into the 2000's, Rick was a driving force in growth, and increasing revenue at Siemens PLM (UGS) , and HP Enterprise Services (EDS). More recently, at Cincom Systems and at Tecnomatix, where he reported to the President & General Manager of North America Operations, Rick had overall responsibility for setting the strategy, and driving execution in establishing new selling, partnership, and distribution channels. Collectively, these experiences have created a full circle of experience in sales, marketing, business strategy and operations that provide Rick with a shop-floor to top-floor balanced experienced exposure to business perspectives and revenue capture strategy.

Kevin McCann has eighteen years of sales and management experience in the high-tech industry. Kevin has worked for the largest networking equipment manufacturers in the world including Cisco Systems, Inc. and Cabletron (Enterasys), spent 5 years in Silicon Valley during the rise and fall of the .COM’s, ran a small value added reseller which grew from $6million to $60million in revenues in 18 months and worked for one of the most renowned and well-funded startups of the .COM era, all prior to starting Cortex, LLC in 2001.

Kevin built Cortex, LLC with the main mission of doing “Whatever IT Takes” to significantly impact their customers’ businesses by Increasing Revenues and Productivity, Decreasing Operating Costs and Overhead, and providing Value Innovation through technology. Kevin is passionate about helping and teaching business owners and executive management teams how to radically improve their operational efficiency, sales efforts and relationship building skills to gain the upper hand on the competition. Kevin successfully merged Cortex into a larger value added reseller in June of 2006.

Kevin is a contributing editor and staff writer for the BDM News (Business Development Management Newsletter. BDM News is the world’s largest sales and strategy newsletter and focuses on proven methods for firms to increase sales. It is currently read worldwide in over 110 countries.

Kevin was born and raised in Nashua, NH and currently resides in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and two children. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire. He is an avid golfer and skier, enjoys tennis and surfing and is most proud of his completion of the Ironman Canada Triathlon in Penticton, BC in 2000.

Jim Treleaven has had a successful career in industry as the CEO of both public and private technology companies ranging in size from $40 to $500 million.  Most recently he was Chairman and CEO of Catalyst International, a NASDAQ listed supply chain software company.  He also served as CEO of Global CommerceZone and Visual Intelligence Corp. and as President of the Enterprise Solutions Division of GEAC (D&B Software).  He has also held management, engineering, sales and marketing positions at IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank, Moore and Unisys.  He has also served as President of DeVry University Chicago, serving 15,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in business and technology. 

He received his BS Degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, his MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and his PhD in Management (Information Systems and Operations Research) from Case.  He has taught at Case and has lectured at several other leading universities.  He has published extensively in both refereed and popular journals in fields including human-computer interaction, computer-aided-design, corporate strategy, marketing and finance.  He is a frequent speaker and has been featured on CNN and the Financial News Network

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the TechAmerica, the Illinois Technology Association (ITA), and has served as Chair of the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA).  He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case and the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University. He is the current President of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University.  Jim is also a member of The Association for Information Systems (AIS), ACM, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and IEEE.

Walter (Walt) Wise works with the senior management team in growth-directed companies seeking to increase corporate revenues, reduce sales and marketing costs and better manage their business risks. His services include executive coaching, strategy consulting, sales and marketing consulting and sales and marketing training. Walt’s firm specializes in working with smaller companies (less than $50 M in annual revenue), including 8a’s, SDBs and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned businesses and those desiring to work in the Public Sector.

Walt has spent over 14 years in business as a Regional Vice President, Vice President of Business Development, Account Manager, Sales Manager and Program Manager in companies with annual revenues from $5 Million to over $100 Million.

Walt is a retired Air Force officer and has a Master of Arts Degree in Management from Webster University and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix. He is a Certified Program Manager and currently teaches Project Management, Finance for Business and Management Information Systems for the University of Phoenix.