Contact

Email: sameer at zaptxt dot com
Blog: http://blogs.zaptxt.com/Sameer
Skype: sameerapatel

Full Bio

Sameer is the CEO and Co-Founder of ZapTXT, a notification platform for media sites and applications that lets users monitor critical events and content via Instant Messenger, Email and Mobile Device. Sameer also founded SpanStrategies Inc. in 2003, a business execution planning and brand execution boutique for leading hit-tech and consumer companies.

Sameer’s client roster has included BitTorrent, Sun Microsystems, Ingres, McKessonHBOC, WR Wrigley Jr. Co., The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and Cardinal Health. Prior to SpanStrategies, he also helped build technology-enabled business execution consulting practices for Liquid Thinking and for marchFIRST (formerly USWeb/CKS).

His client advisory work has contributed to the creation of portals and outsourced relationships for the following initiates, among others:

  • Business Intelligence for Direct Sales Force for a Fortune 500 high-tech company.
  • Field Marketing Communication and Collaboration for a leading high-tech company.
  • Unified Customer and Partner Interaction for an entertainment and media start-up with $350 million in funding.
  • Marketing Collateral Management and Global Fulfillment Sourcing for a Fortune 500 hi-tech company.
  • Global Marketing Spend Forecasting and Reporting for a Fortune 500 hi-tech company.
  • ROI sales tool for global sales force of a leading hi-tech company.
  • Sales and Marketing Business Intelligence for Channel Sales for a Fortune 500 high-tech company.
  • Employee Collaboration and Communication for a Fortune 500 healthcare company
  • Enterprise Knowledge Management for a Fortune 500 consumer products company.

Sameer holds a Bachelors degree in Corporate Finance and Economics from Babson College in Wellesley, MA and a Masters degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Boston University’s School of Management (Masters thesis in Knowledge Management), in Boston MA. He is also a certified Associate in Risk Management (ARM) by the AICPCU.