Harvey Martens

Chief Marketing Officer @ NutraEx Food

About

Harvey has a unique combination of entrepreneurial management, sales and technical expertise. Harvey is a serial entrepreneur, having started several businesses since he began consulting in 1988. Today, he leads Business Development at NutraEx Food, an ingredients business serving global food and beverage manufacturers with healthy natural sweetener products. As a professional territory sales representative, he made business deals during economic downturn and good times. He was the top sales rep in the country almost every month. He opened sales branch in Western Canada and set up a customer support office in Calgary for customers. As an IT specialist, he was often the sought after expert on technical matters. Specialties: Building innovative businesses with passion and tenacity. Sales and Marketing - motivation and education, especially for selling large ticket systems. Depth knowledge of IT application software development and system technical support - will solve difficult problems,

Country

City

Canada

Industry

Food & Beverages

Skill

Sales, Entrepreneur, Consulting, Software Development, Business Strategy, Coaching, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Public Speaking, Team Leadership, New Business Development, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship

Experience

Chief Marketing Officer

NutraEx Food

2024-7 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Burnaby, BC

VP Business Development

NutraEx Food

2010-5 - 2024-12 · 14 yrs 8 mos

Burnaby BC

Business Development, dealing with suppliers and customers. Strategic consultation at top executive level. Co-Founder

Founder

TomorRx Software

1992-2 - Present · 34 yrs 8 mos

Develop custom application software and back end web site systems. Video evidence software to manage drug recognition expert files. This system is used by many law enforcement agencies in the US. Created and delivered custom CD-ROM retrieval system. Provided the design concept, software manufacturing, delivery and end user support as a turn key solution. Major clients Texaco Inc, Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Mahogany Inc. Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Charter Member

Vancouver Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Club

2007 - 2014 · 7 yrs

Served on the executive committee since inception. First as VP Education, then as VP Membership and Treasurer. Spoke at the club's charter celebration in 2007 where Jim Pattison was our honored guest. We achieved Select Distinguished Club recognition from Toastmasters in our first year. During my term as VP Membership, we added 16 new members. Provide mentoring for new members in their public speaking projects. Helped the club grow from start-up to strength of 54 members.

Course Instructor

Harvey Martens Training

2009-6 - 2011 · 1 yr

How to have more influence at work is what we teach at "Sales Techniques for non-sales People", a training course and workshop. It is for managers, engineers, accountants and other professionals who find themselves in sales situations. My role is to manage the course and teach.

Tax Preparer and Marketing Manager

Liberty Tax Service

2005-2 - 2010-4 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Liberty Tax prepares income tax returns for individuals and business. I support local Liberty Tax franchise owners in Burnaby and Vancouver by bringing them more customers and preparing returns at peak hours

HawkEye Product Manager

AcuNetx Inc

2007-7 - 2009-5 · 1 yr 11 mos

Sales and marketing of HawkEye to law enforcement worldwide. HawkEye is an impairment testing device for Drug Recognition Experts (DRE) to support Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Impaired (DWI) convictions. The system is an excellent tool for training officers to perform the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST). Early acceptance of the device shows great promise for future sales. Thirty Six State agencies / Police Academies have tested or use HawkEye

Placement Director

IBC Worldwide

2008-12 - 2009-3 · 4 mos

Sales and Marketing for Immigration Company. Bringing foreign workers to Canada under E-LMO and PNP special programs

Customer Care

Trescal

2008-9 - 2009-3 · 7 mos

Sales and marketing for Containment Chambers, Climatic Control chambers and other laboratory facilities

Sales Manager

AIM Technologies

2006 - 2007 · 1 yr

Manage sales team and closed $1M in new sales Introduced new related products lines to the territory and closed significant accounts

sales representative

MSA - Management Science America

1983 - 1986 · 3 yrs

Territory Manager for Western Canada. Opened Branch office on Calgary. Million dollar sales achieved multiple years Application software for enterprise including management information accounting cash management and enterprise resource management,