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Detailed Biography for Suzan Mannisto

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Educational Background:

  • Elementary and High School at parochial schools in Palo Alto and Santa Rosa.
  • Attended Empire College in Santa Rosa.
  • Various Sales, Marketing and Accounting courses in conjunction with work.

    Brief Work History:

  • GUMP'S OF SAN FRANCISCO: Organized and launched the Corporate Gift Department. Responsible for customer acquisition, sales, coordination of all details involved in getting merchandise to corporate customers. Built department over four years.
  • PACIFIC AGENDA: Worked for four years as event and meeting planner for growing San Francisco event planning company. Responsible for entire process of developing site and activity resources, customer acquisition, sales, execution of major events and multi-day meetings for Fortune 1,000 companies with $100K+ budgets.
  • CLEARLY BUSINESS, INC. (current position): Sales, marketing and administration for small Belmont firm which sells and supports high-end accounting software. Responsible for product demonstrations, new customer acqusition and existing customer interaction and retention.

    Volunteer Work:

  • Adult Literacy Campaign
  • Child Advocacy Council of San Mateo County

    Organizational Experience:

  • Board member for San Francisco Chapter of Executive Women International, a business-to-business women's networking organization.

    Synopsis of Skills Acquired Through Work Experience:

  • Highly developed organizational skills
  • High degree of attention to detail
  • Ability to quickly learn new skills and environments
  • Confidence to take on unfamiliar tasks
  • Ability to solve problems in creative ways
  • Highly successful interpersonal skills

    Personal:

  • Married, two children (6 years and 3 years).
  • Belmont resident for 12 years.



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