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For several years, expert managed all sales and marketing activities throughout Asia-Pacific for an American semiconductor company. Upon his entry into the Asian market, his company had a sales presence in Japan and Hong Kong. He created a sales and marketing presence in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India and Thailand. During this time, he created networks of industrial distributors and manufacturers' representatives in order to minimize the time-to-market. He was able to grow sales in Asia (exclusive of Japan) from $10 million to over $175 million, and sales in Japan from 12 billion Yen to over 26 billion Yen.

For over two decades, half of the sales for which he was responsible were made through industrial distributors. He managed sales and relationships with all of the distributors involved. During this time, he was involved with creating his company's distribution strategies while simultaneously upgrading the the quality and size of distributors.

He was his company's primary interface with its largest distributors as those distributors grew sales from $100 million to several billion dollars. For two years, Expert served as SVP of Sales and Marketing, and president, for a $100 million North American industrial distributor. The distributor sold American and Japanese products throughout the USA.

During expert's tenure in American and Asian markets, he sold product on a direct basis, through manufacturers' representatives, and through distribution channels. Use of the distribution channel proved particularly valuable when growing sales in emerging markets. In Asian markets, he developed unique terms and conditions for dealing with particular distributors in order to exploit rapidly emerging markets.

When responsible for the Asia-Pacific market, expert developed marketing strategies for each of the markets involved. He migrated his company's strategy from the use of traveling foreigners, to expatriate managers, to local nationals. In the Japanese market, he developed marketing and advertising strategies that were completely different from those used in America and Europe.

Expert was responsible for all product marketing while managing the Asia-Pacific operations for an American company, and later, for managing the North American operations for a Dutch multinational company. His sphere of marketing includes product marketing, corporate marketing, as well as management of sales through direct teams, distributors and manufacturers' representatives. Expert has worked as an expert witness in cases involving representative agreements, mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, intellectual property, and asset purchase agreements. He has testified in deposition, arbitration, and trial.

He developed a representative agreement and a distribution agreement for a fabless semiconductor manufacturer. Later, he negotiated for the manufacturer, one contract with a distributor and one contract with a manufacturers' representative.He created the first Representative Agreement for a manufacturer of consumer electronics furniture. He reviewed and upgraded an existing Distribution Agreement for the same manufacturer.He performed as an arbitrator between the buyer and seller of a small business. Both the buyer and seller were represented by attorneys. Upon review of all applicable documents in the case, he held an eight-hour hearing, allowing both parties to state their claims and counter-claims. Upon completion of the hearing, he produced a final report and decision.