Jeffrey S. Willinger

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  , Jeff Willinger is now Director of Business Development at RightPoint Consulting
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  , Jeff Willinger is going to the first Cubs game tonight! Reply »

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  Jeff Willinger
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  Jeffrey S. Willinger, Business Development and Marketing Director, hails from outside of New York City, in Westchester County.After getting his dual degree in Finance and Marketing with a minor in Spanish from the University of Rhode Island, he traveled to Chicago to make his home.
  
  Jeff lead General Binding Corporation's salesforce of 500 during his first three years there selling their binding systems and related custom graphic supplies.From there, he founded Graphic Packaging Resources out of his basement, and built it up to 55 employees with 3 locations, with continual success in the creative and branding arenas.
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  The ultimate sales hunter, Jeff prides himself in building long standing, mutually beneficial business relationships, as evidenced by his impressive LinkedIn network of colleagues.He has run more than a dozen marathons and triathlons, coached and played tennis throughout his life, played basketball at the University of Rhode Island, and is currently the bench coach at Illinois Tech. Of all his life successes, professionally, his greatest achievement is raising his three beautiful, smart daughters, Sara, Abby and Caroline
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  Jeff Willinger

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  * Jeff Willinger sold his business, Graphic Packaging, for an undisclosed sum and took a job with www.tanagram.com , a firm of 38 people heavily populated by former US Web folks who then worked in design at marchFIRST.
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  Willinger is doing biz dev and he wanted a firm in social media that is digital.Jeff also did not want to be the solo guy for a national firm here in the Midwest.He interviewed with a few places where that would have been the case.Plus, he wants to be surrounded by sharp people from whom he can learn.
  
  Jeff, you still owe me another write-up from the Tech Cocktail conference.Willinger just started this Monday at Tanagram.They are re-doing their website, by the way.

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  Jeff Willinger

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  Jeff Willinger, who has never attended SmartBet, told me that for $50 he would have watched and for $100, he would have played. So, raising the buy-in from $150 to $250 may have resulted in some drop-off but by the same token, as Stel Valavanas told me, they want serious players.
  
  But the problem may be that at those lower price points where the Willingers will show up, they would have too many people -- I really don't know. BTW, Willinger has a networking event coming up on the 28th from 5:30pm to 8pm at the 200 West Madison 11th floor conference center.
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  BTW, I meant to mention that Willinger was also at Flip's party last Wednesday at McCormick Place in association with the HR Technology conference. I was surprised to learn that Willinger knows Flip and I asked him how he would know Flip. He told me that his old firm, Graphic Packaging, used to do a lot of work for Platinum, preparing manuals for shipment. I realized that Jeff is like the valet who tells you he knows Warren Buffett because he parked his car. Jeff was probably doing business with some lower level manager, but he had to work his way in to get to know the top guy.

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  Jeffrey S. Willinger jwillinger@rightpointconsulting.com 312.622.2300 cell

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  "It's an ideal scenario because people don't have to join an association or commit to anything," said Chicago IT Professionals Meetup Group organizer Jeff Willinger. Willinger - a director of business development for Chicago-based RightPoint Consulting - says he typically attracts between 20 and 40 people to his gatherings.
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  "You don't want to make it salesy at all," Willinger said.

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  Jeffrey WillingerThe Entrepreneurship Institute
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  Jeffrey WillingerTanagram Partners 125 Halsted St.Chicago, IL 60661 Phone:Fax:
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  Jeff graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1984 with a BS in Finance and Marketing.Later in his career, he worked as a Senior Account Manager at the General Binding Corporation, where he was named the number one Rep. in the country for two years in a row.Then, one night in 1989 in his garage, he started Graphic Packaging, offering a novel custom specialty production service.He currently serves as its President, managing all aspects of its operations as well as generating business for the company.Though not formally schooled in Design, he has an eye for design and is extremely resourceful.For Graphic Packaging, he put together the logo and stationery, and even designed the Corporate Offices.A stickler for detail, he keeps quality of work done by GP at top notch, as he coordinates & oversees all aspects of production, making sure things get done, and on time.
  
  Interested in promoting excellence and innovation in the work environment, he has been an active participant and leader in several business organizations.Jeff frequently lectures on the topics of Sales and Marketing at his alma mater, as well as at the University of Illinois.He was President of Sales and Marketing Executives of Chicago during, and a Board member for three years.His energy and contagious enthusiasm coupled with diligence and hard work pushed him to become an entrepreneur, and start his own company.To support him in this endeavor, he joined the Entrepreneurship Institute and has served as a Board member for the past four years.

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  Jeff Willinger, president and CEO of Graphic Packaging/Arrow Gold (www.graphicpackaging.com), agreed with the message."I have been using digital technology for six years to conduct business.It's our number one source of business.In fact, I reorganized my sales force in the last year to concentrate on having inside people handle Internet inquiries."
  
  To learn more about The Presidents' Symposium, visit The Entrepreneurship Institute website at www.tei.org.

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