Paul Silitsky has over 20 years of sales, marketing and management experience in Fortune 500 companies, as well as early stage pre-IPO companies. His primary focus throughout his career has been the establishment of sales and marketing organizations, including hiring responsibility for over 250 sales professionals in the outsourcing, consulting, healthcare, technology and financial services fields. Paul earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City. After graduating, he began his career in sales with Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a $6 billion data communication and information services company. Paul achieved numerous accolades including "Sales Executive of the Year,? "Sales Manager of the Year" and "Highest-Performing Area Vice-President of Sales" and had responsibility for over 75 sales and marketing professionals. After ADP, Paul took a senior leadership role as Division President for a pre-IPO healthcare services company, Star Multicare. Paul joined the southeast division when the company employed only five employees and was responsible directly or indirectly for the hiring of over 1000 employees. His primary responsibilities included growing and establishing the sales, marketing and strategic business development facets of the organization. Three years after going public, the company would achieve over 300% growth. Paul joined answerQUEST Executive Search in 1998 as Managing Partner where he has continued to partner with key clients to hire the "best of the best" sales and marketing professionals in the consulting, technology, B2B, E-commerce and outsourcing space. His unwavering philosophy is that, "for the most part, people follow patterns of success, and or failure. Through their decision-making processes and examining their history of decisions, a pattern of future success or failure can be assured 90% of the time. It is this disciplined and simple process that is utilized to evaluate every candidate that we present to our clients. Paul and his wife Andrea live in Hollywood Florida with their children Allison and Matthew and red Standard Poodle Cohiba. |