Roosevelt Strategy Group is proud to announce that Berk Swezey has joined the RSG team
Berkeley Swezey is an accomplished corporate executive whose talents have earned him a reputation as an industry leader for over forty years in sales and organizational management.
Mr. Swezey has an extensive background in corporate sales and finance having held high profile positions with a number of top companies in including IBM, Erisco and FISERV, this is in addition to helping start-up companies grow from the ground up. Berkeley has owned his own insurance agency and is one of the founders of Swezey Commercial Real Estate.
While employed by IBM in the area of sales and sales management, Berk specialized in selling financial hardware and software systems to Wall Street brokerage houses and other financial institutions throughout the country, eventually focusing his efforts on Credit Unions Nationwide. Swezey, well known for successful seminar sales, set National sales records that have not been broken to date. In addition, during his tenure as a member of their Headquarters Staff Support, he was instrumental in creating and managing National sales contest, training programs and customer service conferences attended by 30 to 40 financial institutions and their 500-600 employees.
After IBM Berkeley joined as one of the 13 stockholders of the then privately held company Erisco Incorporated, a leading provider of employee benefits software to Fortune 1000 companies. Berkeley was responsible for managing the National sales effort that resulted in Erisco’s gross revenue increasing from $2 million to $24 million dollars in five years. He also established a customer service department and developed and instituted customer service programs that increased customer satisfaction from 8% to 94% within the first 10 months of its inception. In addition he hired and trained the sales force, established and produced a workshop series and seminars for Fortune 1000 prospects, and managed the integration of major financial institutions. Berkeley’s efforts were a driving factor in Dun & Bradstreets acquisition of Erisco.
A graduate of Colgate University, Mr. Swezey subsequently attended St. John’s School of Law. He served his country for two years earning an honorable discharge from the army and the community in various capacities, including tenure on the Village of Freeport Board of Trustees. Berkeley Swezey is married with three grown children and resides in Babylon New York.
Mr. Swezey's work will be centered on improving the sales and customer service operations for RSG's management consulting clients.
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