Background and Experience
With over twenty years of business experience ranging from small business ownership, large corporate assignments, international and various functional disciplines, Kathleen Kelly serves as the Director of Marketing for Chicagoland Sunbelt.
Kathleen joined Chicagoland Sunbelt in 2008 as a Selling Agent where her responsibilities encompassed matching buyers to available listings. Her first sale was a business that had been on the market for nearly two years. She had remarkable success in matching buyers to opportunities they had not first considered.
She develops and directs the marketing of Sun Affiliates, Chicagoland Sunbelt Business Brokers, and Sun Acquisitions. She is responsible for supporting the marketing and sales activities of the business entities, professionals, and individual engagements.
Kathleen began her career as a researcher at Russell Reynolds Associates, an executive recruiting firm. There she worked identifying target companies and individuals from a variety of industries and functional specialties for client assignments. One of her areas of expertise was identifying industry expertise executives to step in and manage firms acquired by venture capital portfolios. She left that firm to study business and work in Barcelona for a year. Upon her return, she joined the Richmark Group, a firm that specializes in business-to-business marketing and channel management consulting. All assignments were custom studies using in-depth qualitative and quantitative interviews with industry members. Client's ranged from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups to M&A firms needing additional resources in due diligence. A short list of industries studied includes: satellite phones, land mobile radio, plumbing tools, international freight forwarding, trucks, commercial printing, computer servers, food flavorings, materials handling equipment, and security and alarm systems. Kathleen was the international specialist at the firm where she managed in-country assignments in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and Jordan. As Project Manager, she managed internal teams and sub-contractors both in the U.S. and abroad.
Kathleen's work experience also includes her time at Perishable Distribution Solutions, a freight broker and subsidiary of Weinstein Meats, where Kathleen worked as an Account Executive/Freight Broker. She specialized in dry and refrigerated, LTL and truckload shipping.
Ten years ago Kathleen started her own retail business. The business quickly grew to one of the largest in Chicago as well as receiving attention from national magazines, citations in books and magazines as one of the best in the industry. Sharing a business with her sister, Kathleen's role was marketing and purchasing/merchandise mix. As a small business owner she selected locations, negotiated leases, bought commercial property and worked with banks on financing.
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