Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success

< P style="MARGIN: 0px"> < B> Vince Thompson< /B> , principal at Middleshift Consulting, works with Internet companies to design world-class online marketing solutions and build sales organizations empowering those in the middle. His clients include Napster, StarStyle.com, and Break.com.< /P> < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> Thompson has spent 15 years as a middle manager leading teams in challenging industries and hotbeds for learning: first in restaurants, then in television, and now in the Internet business. He spent seven years as Regional Vice President of Sales for America Online. There, he designed AOL& rsquo; s sales training organization, managed teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dulles, VA; and served as Regional Vice President of AOL& rsquo; s Southwestern Region, where his teams led AOL& #39; s West Coast Entertainment and Auto relationships. < /P> < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> He is a featured online expert in the Quantum Sales Training Series, has spoken widely on online advertising, and has contributed to the Iowa Press textbook < I> Media Selling< /I> .< /P> < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> Thompson holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of Southern California& rsquo; s Annenberg School of Communications, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two daughters.< /P> < P style="MARGIN: 0px"> To learn more about Vince Thompson and the community of Ignited managers, visit < B> www.BeIgnited.com< /B> .< /P> < P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> & nbsp; < /P>