Reg Nordman

Current

Founder & Managing Partner at Rocket Builder

Past

Consultant and Sales at Activestate
VP Business Development at TNL Construction/TNL Group
Western education sales manager at Commodore Business Machines

Sales at Unisys
Advisor-Coordinator-Presenter at BC Ministry of Education
Advisor-Presenter- Instructor at BC Teachers federation

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Education

The University of British Columbia
Simon Fraser University
University of Victoria

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Recommended

8 people have recommended Reg

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Management Consulting

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Reg Nordman’s Summary

We help technology companies to achieve greater success by getting them get more effective selling time. We call this Precision Sales and Marketing.
Check out www.rocketbuilders.com and www.regnordman.com

Reg Nordman’s Specialties:

I specialize in improving a clients sales and marketing efforts to get up to the next level. More revenue solves a lot of problems. However there are many areas within sales and marketing where efforts are wasted. I remove the roadblocks to higher profits and sales effectiveness

Reg Nordman’s Experience

Founder & Managing Partner

Rocket Builder

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)

“We retained Reg Nordman to carry out a review of
sales process/performance for one of our portfolio companies.
I would recommend Reg to companies who want to quickly and efficiently establish a base line of sales process/performance as well as setting sales strategies. “ Mike Sherman, VP, Investments Chrysalix Energy Management Inc.

We retained Reg Nordman of Rocket Builders as interim CEO for one of our portfolio companies. He quickly took charge of the company, establishing some significant positive changes on the sales and partnership side while keeping the company focused on critical product development milestones. I would recommend Reg and Rocket Builders to companies looking for help at the senior executive level. Brent Holliday , Partner, Greenstone Venture Partners

We worked with Reg Nordman and Rocket Builders to re-vitalize our company.
It was one of our best return-on-marketing investments ever." Craig Fisher, President and CEO, Solid Innovations
Consultant and Sales

Activestate

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Acquired by Sophos. Active in the company from a start-up of five people to over a 100 dedicated open source gurus! The only sales guy there! Ask me how to make money selling free software! We wrote the book.
VP Business Development

TNL Construction/TNL Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

TNL was a construction company with revolutionary approaches to the industrial market. I took a few approaches that were standard in the high tech world and applied them to industrial construction. We grew rapidly to over 1000 employees in four years, as fast as Microsoft was growing in Seattle. We serviced clients such as West Coast Energy ( now Duke Energy), MacMillan Bloedel (Now Weyerhaeuser), Homestake Minerals, Gibraltar Mines ( now Taseko) . When one sector slowed down we diversified into others including large electric power plants, oil and gas plants and even high volume road building. Great stuff, and when we capitalized the company, I went into private consulting.
Western education sales manager

Commodore Business Machines

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )

All education (Public,private and post secondary) sales in
Western Canada (BC, AB, Sask, Manitoba). Grew the business and penetration of the education market. I fell in love with the Amiga, and am still wistful. Made some terrific life long friends in the market and company.
Sales

Unisys

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Western sales of products to the education market. I got the best grounding in a sales education you could wish for as Unisys/Burroughs had brrought over some successful sr IBM executives to run the company. They instigated a superb state of the art sales program while I was there. Also got great training in UNIX! Good people, good times
Advisor-Coordinator-Presenter

BC Ministry of Education

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years )

Just the best of times. I was able to apply my growing computer expertise to many divisions of education. I presented to School Board Executives and senior employees, Advised on Provincial purchase programs and constantly tried to push what these little machines could do. What a lot fo fascinating people to meet up with and continiue to have discussions with.
Advisor-Presenter- Instructor

BC Teachers federation

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )

Led/designed Teacher training programs on using computers in schools. Along with a merry band of other teachers (Ian Jukes, Chris Howerton, Ted McCain, Barry Underwood, Gayle Long and others) we were set loose on the unsuspecting teachers of the province. An absolute blast, and oh how I loved my Apple.

Reg Nordman’s Education

The University of British Columbia

B ApSci , Mineral Engineering , 1968 — 1973

There is nothing like an engineering degree to give one the confidence to take on any task. The best part of the degree were the lifelong friends I made
Simon Fraser University

MSAT , Management of Technology

Tremendous group of participants and presenters in this program. I really learned to like a matrix organizational structure. This program highlighted to me the tight inter - relationships between Product Development - Marketing - Sales
University of Victoria

M.Education , Adult education

Specialized in Curriculum design and adult education. This program gave me so much insight into different modes of learning. You can not change anyone's opinion, but you can guide them to look at things differently in order to adjust attitudes.