The Baker Communications
Leadership TeamJames A. (Jim) Baker
Chairman & Secretary
Jim
Baker is a long-time resident of
Houston, Texas. He received his B.S.
from the University of Rochester, his
certification in Behavioral Science at
the Rochester Institute of Technology,
an M.S. from the State University of New
York, and attended South Texas College
of Law in Houston, Texas. Jim is a
co-founder of the National Center for
Dispute Settlement of the American
Arbitration Association, a past
instructor for the Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Business, Rice
University and an Adjunct Professor for
the University of Houston. Jim remains
an active sponsor and author with "The
Anger Busting Workbook", the "Anger
Busting™ Training and Counseling Guide"
“TeleSales Marketing” and “Negotiations
Tactics For Professionals” are a few of
his recent publications. Jim also has a
monthly column on Anger Related issues
which appears in Recovery Today
Magazine.Walter Rogers
President & CEO
Walter Rogers is President and CEO of Baker Communications. He has created and led businesses in 13 countries on 3 continents. He was a finalist for the 2000 and 2001 Texas eCommerce Awards, is Vice-Chairman for the Houston Institute for Management Studies, is a guest instructor on the topics of entrepreneurship, sales and marketing at the University of Texas and has been interviewed on ABC News on the topic of Negotiating Skills. During his time with Baker Communications he has increased sales by over 800% in just four years and pushed the organization into new products, services and markets. Under his leadership he has increased Baker Communications market share to 1000 active clients who are now receiving over 200 training workshops per month growing 25% to 50% per year.
Lawne
Gerhardt
Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development
Lawne Gerhardt is Vice
President of Sales at Baker
Communications. He has more than 15
years of sales and marketing experience
in the technology and training fields.
Prior to coming to BCI,
he was Senior Vice President of Sales
and Marketing at Communispond, a
division of InformaUSA, where he was
responsible for both national and
international sales. While at
Communispond, he developed highly
effective sales and marketing strategies
that significantly increased the
company’s customer base and tripled the
size of the sales organization. Before
his tenure at Communispond, he was also
Vice President of Sales for the
Northeast region of Element K. He has
also managed national sales for IBM
Global Services.
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