J. R. Samples
Consultant

Contact J. R. at: jr@masiltd.com

J.R. earned his B.S. Marketing, B.S. Physical Education from the Olivet Nazarene University in 1978.

Most recently, J.R. has been the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) at Accountability Partners working intensely with senior business executives in corporations to enhance operations performance with resources for business planning, mentoring and operational reviews that enables maximized operations performance by leveraging executives’ capabilities.

From 1996 to 2005, J.R. was Area President and Vice President of Professional Services at IKON Office Solutions. J.R. led the Professional Service team (consultants and analysts) to execute sales of high-end, technology-based solutions. His successes included increased revenues between 2002 and 2005 of 300%. Before this J.R. was Regional President of Technology Services with full responsibility for a $30M sales region and 150 sales consultants, analysts and administrative staff. In that role he also excelled by quadrupling revenue growth during a five-year period while executing two acquisitions and implementing operational integration and opening new offices.

At Kenwood Associates, J.R. was a Partner and served as Executive Vice President when IKON Office Solutions acquired the firm. At Kenwood, he provided turnaround management consulting and implementation of “solution selling” practices for a variety of clients.

Prior to Kenwood, J.R. was President and Owner of Niakwa’88, Inc., which he transformed from a hardware/software reseller to a successful national “shrink-wrapped” software developer and services provider.

With decades of valuable and varied management skills, J.R. is an approachable, skilled executive who exudes authenticity and confidence for clients seeking to reach higher excellence measured by high standards and demands for process accountability.