Jerry is the CEO of Z-axis Marketing, Inc. founded in 1990. He speaks professionally as the Networking Ninja based on his specializaton in business development and new product introductions.

Tis 18 year professional member of NSA is perhaps best known recently for his keynote "Who do you Trust" which he has delivered both in the USA and Internationally. His website www.networkingninja.com provides video and audio examples of his skills on and off the platform.

Jerry continues ot work as a marketing consultant to management. He strategizes and implements traditional and Internet marketing for:

Start-ups

Professional practices

Small to mid-sized businesses

His Trust-Based Marketing approach builds businesses, careers and lives of joy.

Jerry is an expert at business development who has:

Raised over $500,000 in funding for a start up in just 17 days

Increased the first quarter sales of a consulting firm by over $1.2 Million with a single suggestion

Increased a power software company's sales by 400% in 18 months

Plotted the introduction of financial and estate planning software that industry gurus called "The Future."

Stopped counting successful new product introductions he has helped with at 207.

He was a "rain maker" who brought over $10 million in new billings to the Portland ad agecuy were he became CEO. After a succesful employee buyout he opened his solo strategic marketing consultancy.

He has been asked to bring his proven processes in Positioning, Naming and Branding to all sizes of companies from high-tech garage-based start-ups such as Digimarc to international Fortune 500 companies like ADC Kentrox.

When asked about his education he usually remarks, "The University of Cincinnati, Harvard and the College of hard knocks with an advanced degeee in if-it-doesn't-work-you-don't-get-paid."

Jerry is an advertising, PR and DM pro who won his spurs at J. Walter Thompson, New York, Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis and Young & Roehr, Portland where he was CEO.

He has worked with companies in the business to business, business to consumer and consumer retail arenas on products ranging from multi-million dollar machines to breakfast cereal.

Today, he's a net marketing expert as well with an in-depth understanding of what works and what doesn't to build business on the internet.

His Portland friends say his office is "at the end of the sidewalk." His spacious quarters are in Wilsonville, about 30 minutes south of Portland. The french doors overlook the garden and the deck that in the summer becomes "Conference Room 2."

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