Carlos Fox President - Intento International Inc.

Carlos's 25 year career in international sales, business development and marketing in the high technology arena started in mainframe computer systems sales at Sperry Univac. He then caught the Mini-Computer wave at Hewlett Packard where he led the worldwide sales team dedicated to Nortel, their 10th largest global customer. Riding the UNIX workstation market wave, he launched a 10 year career at Sun Microsystems in 1987 as their National Sales Manager for Telecom in Canada, to lead what became their key Canadian growth engine and became the first ever Director of Marketing for Sun Canada. Based in their Palo Alto HQ for 7 years, he held a variety of International Sales, Business Development and Marketing Director level positions in their Intercontinental and North American Field Operations with extensive experience in direct sales, vertical industry market development, field marketing, channel development, technology licensing, global account and strategic partner management. He experienced being at the centre of the explosive $500M to $7.5B growth curve of Sun.
 
He returned to Canada in 1996 to join Jetform, an enterprise application software company, as the VP International Sales and later as Sr. VP of Marketing. Most recently he served as VP Sales at Chrysalis-ITS, selling internet security hardware system solutions to a global set of customers in government, telecommunications, financial services and commercial accounts.
 
Carlos is now President of Intento International Inc., an Ottawa based executive coaching, facilitation, consulting and education practice dedicated to increasing the performance and enhancing the lives of executives. He has been invited by TEC (The Executive Committee), the world's largest CEO membership organization, to create and Chair TEC chief executive peer groups in the Ottawa Capital Region.
 
He holds an Electrical Engineering degree and a Masters of Management Sciences in Organizational Behavior Psychology from the University of Waterloo. He is also a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Marketing Management program. In addition he has completed the highest level of "Catalyst for Change" certification awarded by the WEL-Systems Institute (www.wel-systems.com).