Julius Salud

Mr. Julius Salud has had an outstanding International career as an innovator in Corporate Strategy and Planning for over 20 years as well as product marketing and support on a worldwide basis. He has extensive experience in International Operations and Administration, Process Simplification, Management in large organizations and managing Multicultural Diversity. He is multilingual, speaking English, Spanish and Tagalog. Julius has a Master's Degree from Pepperdine University where he is also the Presidential/Key Executive of the MBA Program for Senior Managers.

Julius’s skills include international operations, finance, and marketing in high technology companies (HP and Sun) as well as in the biotech industry (Chiron). He has led major reorganization projects for Sun, saving millions of dollars while improving performance. Julius has setup and managed major call centers in the US with more than 200 people under his responsibility. He was a member of a small team of senior directors who designed, developed and launched worldwide sales of Chiron's Blood Testing products in record time. More recently, Julius launched eBloodBank.com in six languages to become a dominant portal in that industry.

Mr. Salud was Sr. Director of eBloodBank.com and World Wide Operations of Chiron Corporation, managing the unit's worldwide administration and operations and was Sr. Director of Business Operations. Julius was responsible for the simplification and the restructuring of the worldwide supply chain for the different business units. Julius was Project Leader of the Blood Testing products Software Development Team which had to pass rigid testing for FDA approvals.

Julius was Director of Operations and eCommerce at Autodesk Corporation, developers of the worlds leading architectural design program AutoCAD. He was responsible for planning and implementation of the company's eCommerce and Shared Services long term strategies. Mr. Salud organized the planning and implementation teams involving 100 employees at the Center and 600 dealers in North America.

Mr. Salud was Director of Customer Administration and Call Center Operations for North America for Sun Microsystems Corporation. He created and implemented Sun's first Customer Satisfaction Teams and the first Customer Transaction/Call Centers in the US and Europe. The US Center has more than 200 people with 11 managers reporting to Julius. His team reduced Sun's Account Receivable from 75 days to 29 days and improved Sun's cash position by more than 500%. The team also improved the total cycle time from Order to Shipment by more than 60% and created decision tools and process improvements with combined savings of more than 75 million dollars.

His other Managerial Positions included moving from Credit Supervisor to Corporate Credit Leasing Manager at HP Corporation and from Corporate Credit Manager to Corporate Asset Manager at Amdahl Corporation.