John D Thome

John D. Thome is an accomplished and globally recognized expert on B2B marketing and on high-tech camera and print inspection systems for printing and packaging.

He has been published in over 75 countries and 12 languages and has spoken on print inspection technology in the United States, Australia, India, Europe, and all over Central and South America.

His 44-year career in marketing of business-to-business products was marked by year after year of marketing creativity and extraordinary results.

In the rookie year of his marketing career, he helped spearhead a turnaround by developing and implementing a sales and profit improvement plan that increased sales 80%, turned a 9¢ per share loss into a 16¢ per share profit in three months and was instrumental in helping his employer generate the first corporate profit in three and a half years.

He built, trained, and managed sales organizations in North and South America that grew and maintained market shares of 70—80% for over twenty years, in multiple countries.

As the chief marketing officer for Pro Mark Technologies, his marketing expertise helped quadruple unit sales over a six-year period, while dollar sales grew 33% a year over that same period. The company made the INC 500 list, as one of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America, in multiple years, and ultimately was acquired by what is today a € 4 billion Germany company.

As a Regional Sales Manager, he increased territory sales 300% and inspection systems sales 750% over a two-year period, while selling a third of all the 100% inspection systems sold (of the firms’ best-selling model) by the entire company in all of North America.