Ken LopezExecutive Coach, Mentor and Consultant at Encore Coaching Services
Ken’s career includes more than 30 years experience in corporate executive positions as well as founding multiple entrepreneurial enterprises.
Ken’s rich experience with corporate firms such as Sales, Education, Technology, Digital Marketing, Healthcare, Education, Consulting, Engineering, Manufacturing, Fabrication and many others.
In addition, Ken founded two companies, NearShore Interactive, a website design and development agency, and Customer Management Solutions, a custom software development company that was later acquired in the Internet boom of the 1990’s.
As an executive coach, Ken is leveraging his extensive business, industry, entrepreneurial, organizational behavior, leadership and human resources skills to help others optimize their results, navigate transitions, and realize their professional and personal objectives.
Ken has held positions from Founder/CEO to VP of Offshore, Chief Operations Officer, to Managing Director, to VP of Sales.
Ken’s coaching credentials are through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).
He received his MBA from Emory University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University.
Some of Ken’s experiences include the following:
- Sales Instructor and Course Development
- Sales and Systems Engineering management
- Sales of high tech surgical equipment – scrubbed-in in operating room
- Training of surgeons on laparoscopic and surgical stapling equipment and procedures
- Regional sales management
- Corporate strategy director
- Small Business Turnaround consulting
- Process improvement to increase throughput and yield in semiconductor wafer fabrication process
- Manufacturing equipment layout in high tech manufacturing
- Materials handling design using conveyors and transporters
- Headcount planning for both direct and indirect resources
- Large account sales of high end computing equipment and software solutions
- Client Services for large account website development
- Operations for digital marketing agency
- Human resources for digital marketing agency
- Started up an offshore development business in Bogota
- Founder of a website design and development agency
- Trained negotiater by Harvard Negotiation Project
- Taught negotiation at IBM Sales Education
Ken is an avid outdoorsman and frequent mountain biker, hiker, backpacker, kayaker, skier, and lover of all things outdoors.
