Joseph Thompson:  

Life B.A. from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. (Home of Sir Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech) Studied pre-vet medicine. Over 25 years of sales and marketing experience. Actually, I have always been entrepreneurial enjoyed selling and have and can remember selling greeting cards when I was eight. Cleaned animal kennels after school an on weekends while in high school for two dollars an hour. I worked my way through college as a photographer where I took thousands of slides for teaching equine veterinary medicine. I also worked part-time selling photographic equipment for the old Felix Camera Store in Kansas City. Ten years in sales and marketing with Pitman Moore, Inc., the former veterinary pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson. In addition to a highly successful field sales career, I was product manager for a wide variety of products primarily for use in small animals. These included sutures and other surgical products, anesthetics, ectoparasiticides, anthlemintics, antifungals and more. This was probably the most fun job I ever had. I went around to other J & J companies and found products that could be used by vets and brought them to the market. I pioneered the use of database marketing in the late 1980's and have worked with or consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies inc...Expand for more