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Dec 16, 2009

VizSeek names Derrick Dilts as Business Development Manager

Indiana – VizSeek announced today that Derrick Dilts has joined VizSeek as Business Development Manager for small and middle markets. Dilts' focus will be on the growth of the subscriber base and the market awareness of VizSeek’s productivity tools for both procurement and suppliers in their online industrial networking platform, VizSpace.

According to Nainesh Rathod, Chief Executive Officer of VizSeek, “Derrick brings real world experience in supply chain management, logistics, sales, and marketing to the table, and we feel that this makes him the perfect person to translate the capabilities of our VizSpace platform to the very real needs of our customers in small and middle markets to show them the opportunities that VizSpace can open for them.”

Dilts describes his interest in VizSeek as follows, “The value of a logistics and supply chain professional lies in the ability to navigate the void that exists between buyers, sellers, and movers of product. I joined VizSeek because its shape search technology, combined with its social networking platform, is shrinking that void in a way never before possible.”

Dilts continues, “My role involves getting our tools into the hands of the small and middle market suppliers, allowing them to gain greater visibility and increase sales in the industrial and government marketplace. I’m here to help them win better opportunities, and to bring them to market in a more efficient manner.”

Before joining VizSeek, Mr. Dilts served as president at DBG, a logistics and supply chain management firm he founded that focused on the small manufacturing market. Prior to that, he worked as a financial advisor with a national brokerage firm and in purchasing and logistics at an environmental container manufacturer in Ensenada, Mexico. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Sales Management from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and has various certifications in the manufacturing, financial, and supply chain industries.