Deacon Lloyd has cultivated a pool of talented professionals who are ready to engage and help clients grow. We draw upon and manage a variety of sales professionals who bring specific functional, process, and industry expertise to the engagement. Our associates have enjoyed success in both corporate and start-up environments.

The management team is led by Mike Grubbs, who brings over twenty-five years of experience in building businesses. His sales, marketing and management expertise has been shaped by diverse corporate and start-up successes. Early in his career, his industrial and technology sales experience helped him fully appreciate the linkage between good management, tools, process and effective selling. He thrives in helping clients re-engineer their sales and marketing formulas.

As an executive with Sprint, Mike was responsible for leading Sprint’s Internet and data services product lines through their rapid development and growth stages, culminating in annual revenues of over $1.7 billion. As co-founder of a successful consumer products company, Mike built the business to over $3.5 million in highly profitable annual revenues in less than three years. In sales with a tech start-up, he landed the company's first corporate accounts.

Mike holds an MBA from the Darden Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia and a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina.

Leading the team with Mike is Jerry Shipley. If you are seeking cross-functional knowledge and skills to immediately impact a business, Jerry is the man. He brings over twenty-five years of experience in sales, marketing, business development and executive-level management at Fortune 500 as well as emerging growth companies. He has gained expertise in several industries and vertical markets, including satellite, cellular, network services, healthcare, and information systems.

Jerry has led teams with direct revenue responsibility of up to $100 million. He has built and managed marketing and sales teams for national and international markets. He has developed business plans, marketing plans and sales plans – often where none previously existed. More importantly, he has successfully executed against those plans. Jerry’s specialty is developing and executing programs that identify and then capture a company's most profitable customers.

Jerry holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a BS in Engineering from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.

Soo Bong Peer brings an international perspective that is difficult to replicate, with more than seventeen years of experience in global strategic marketing, advertising, market research and international joint ventures. She is passionate about creating impactful marketing solutions that yield tangible results for clients.

Having lived in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Soo has first-hand knowledge of a variety of cultures and sociopolitical environments and possesses the ability to effectively facilitate cross-cultural business activities. She has worked in the health care, telecommunications, advertising and management consulting industries. Companies she has been affiliated with include Mars, Sprint/Global One, Comsat Corporation, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, AmeriHealth and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Her experience entails both consumer and business-to-business products covering the U.S. as well as international markets.

She earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia; a Master’s Degree in biochemistry from the Boston University Medical Center; and a Bachelor’s Degree in chemistry from the College of Notre Dame.

Tony Bello brings to Deacon Lloyd more than twenty years of sales and management experience. When it comes to sales, he’s been there and knows how to get it done. Tony's sales perspective helps Deacon Lloyd deliver and manage practical sales solutions that drive the acquisition of profitable customers.

Tony has managed high-performing sales teams, developed new sales channels, and built in-bound and out-bound sales and customer support organizations. As Sales Director with Verio/NTT, Tony led a group of over 100 contributors while tripling revenues within one year. He also grew a third-party consultant channel from 12 to 75 consultants within one year. Prior to Verio, Tony sharpened his skills in sales engineering, customer support, and technical service roles for a variety of companies.

Tony's fluency in Spanish has been especially valuable for several clients and employers. Tony is based near Silicon Valley in northern California.

David MacMahan is a serial entrepreneur and salesman extraordinaire, with over twenty years of sales and management success. His three successful start-ups combined with domestic and international selling experience have provided Dave with an acute understanding of what it takes to build businesses. He loves to provide clients with the ultimate value generators: making sales and managing salespeople.

Over the years, David has created, marketed and sold products that have generated millions of units of sales through traditional and online merchandisers. From concept to launch to customer, he knows what it takes to sell new products and markets. His accomplishments are well recognized, and he has been featured in national media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, and International Herald Tribune, as well as Good Morning America, CNN, QVC, HSN and national and international talk radio programs.

David earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina.

Gail Buerger Kerr is a proven business builder who brings to clients a 25-year track record of creating new business and profitable growth for companies like Citibank, IBM, Dun & Bradstreet as well as early-stage technology companies. She is a rare professional who is comfortable talking business with CEOs and technology with CIOs and engineers. Gail has worked extensively in the knowledge management, web services, information technology, and financial services industries.

She particularly enjoys working with early-stage companies to create a first-mover advantage by capturing showcase accounts and partners. As an executive with Citibank and Dun & Bradstreet, she built sales organizations and delivered programs that generated over $250 million in new business. As a consultant to technology companies, she has successfully launched products into new markets, constructed alliances, captured marquee customers, and even facilitated investments from strategic investors.

Gail is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She has contributed to numerous national industry and professional organizations, including serving as a board member, speaker, conference coordinator, and author.