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Blue Engine Founders Bios

The Blue Engine team has a complimentary blend of leadership, experience and skills that provide clients with the best possible knowledge and support for growing their business. From general management to sales to project management to operations management to marketing to public relations, the Blue Engine team's diverse skills background enables the rapid identification of key challenges and issues facing our clients to the implementation of "real-world" solution that actually work.  The Bios for Blue Engine Founders Chris Kremer and John Maxwell are below.

Chris Kremer

Chris Kremer has extensive experience in the general management, sales, sales management, brand management, project management and integrated selling processes. With over 24 years in business, he has held executive leadership positions with companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion dollar divisions of Fortune 50 companies. His selling and channel development experience includes direct sales to Fortune 50 companies including manufacturers, media conglomerates, and consumer brands. He has also extensive channel development experience with major retailers and multi-tier distributors. Mr. Kremer's product background includes data communication software and hardware, personal computers and peripherals. He has also led sales and marketing efforts into emerging markets such as pen-based computing and wireless multimedia.

Before joining Blue Engine, Mr. Kremer spent 2 years with Summus, Inc, a wireless software company, where he served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development.  Prior to Summus, Mr. Kremer was President of Dial2Go, a wireless PDA company. He spent nearly 5 years with Motorola, where he held various senior level executive positions including Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Retail & OEM Modem Peripherals Division and as Senior Director, Program Management for the Personal Communications Sector. Mr. Kremer was General Manager of Zenith Data System's Notebook Computing Division during the mid 90's where he also served as a member of the company's Executive Operations Committee. In the early 90's, Mr. Kremer held several Director level positions with AT&T's Mobile Computing Division in the areas of Marketing, Business Development and Product Management. Mr. Kremer also was Director of Product Marketing & Business Development for NCR's Pen Computing Division.

Mr. Kremer is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, where he received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1980.

John Maxwell

John Maxwell has over 20 years of diverse business experience in the areas of marketing, sales, sales training, public relations, sales forecasting and finance.  He has spent a large portion of his career on developing marketing and sales programs for high technology products and services. His executive leadership experience includes Vice President positions with both Summus, Inc and Dial-2-Go.

 Mr. Maxwell has developed and implemented marketing and sales programs for a broad range of channels, services and products. He has extensive experience with international conglomerates, consumer brands and direct sell major accounts. Mr. Maxwell has expertise in developing and implementing public relations and media campaigns for new product launches. He has channel development experience in both retail and multi-tier distribution.

 Mr. Maxwell's product and service background includes consulting services, data communication software and hardware, personal computers and peripherals He has marketed or sold products as diverse as wireless multimedia software, handheld computers, personal computers, and web development.

 Prior to Blue Engine, Mr. Maxwell has held various senior level positions for industry leading companies such as Motorola, AT&T, Summus, and NCR. Mr. Maxwell most recently served as vice president of marketing for Summus and prior to that as director of marketing for Motorola.

 Mr. Maxwell earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in Marketing.