Stephen Diorio, Partner, Profitable Channels 
Stephen is an established authority in sales and marketing best practices who has helped over 100 leading sales organizations—including Merrill Lynch, Wachovia Securities, Intuit, American Express, Ameriprise, Wells Fargo, CBS, SunTrust Bank, DuPont, Staples, UPS, and IBM—develop and execute growth programs that take advantage of innovative channel strategies, thought leadership selling content and relationship selling tools to grow more profitably and differentiate from the competition. He is a prominent speaker on channel, sales and marketing best practices, and author of several highly regarded publications including: Beyond e:12 Ways Technology Will Transform Sales & Marketing Strategy (McGraw-Hill) and Better Relationship Selling: A Proven Formula For Acquiring and Developing Relationships with High Value Customers. Prior to forming Profitable Channels, he founded an INC 500 sales strategy consultancy and held marketing management positions at Citicorp and GE Sales and Marketing. Mr. Diorio holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Engineering from Bucknell University. He can be reached at sdiorio@profitablechannels.com
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Grant Butler, Author Think, Write, Grow
adership content development and author of the recently released book Think, Write, Grow: Become the Thought Leader in Your Field (John Wiley & Sons). He is CEO of the Editor Group, a firm has helped top sales organizations such as Cisco, IBM, PwC and Oracle to grow sales, communicate, build brand and enhance reputations since 1998. He has extensive journalist background as IT Editor of the The Australian Financial Review newspaper and writer for leading technology and business publications. Grant speaks and trains business professionals on business writing and editing skills; the art of writing thought leadership material; marketing and business development. He has an MA in International Communications from Macquarie University, Sydney. He can be reached at gbutler@editorgroup.com