Episode 40: The Mobile Commerce Platform that’s Redefining the Golf Industry, with Heath Barnett
Release Date: 08/09/2017
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Peter Strohkorb has over 15 years of corporate business experience in executive-level Sales and Marketing executive roles with some of the biggest brands on the planet.
info_outlineHeath Barnett graduated from Texas State in 2013 with a degree in Finance. He started off trading financial derivatives for Oil and Gas and then joined a pipeline construction company, Rapid Pipeline Services, as the Chief Financial Officer. After a successful career in Oil and Gas, Heath joined Accenture and their Transaction Services Team. His team was responsible for less than 3% of the transactional volume but represented almost 50% of the company’s transactional value. After Accenture, He started his own company, Partake Technologies Inc., known as Partake, which is a mobile commerce platform that connects golf courses with their customers to provide an on-demand omnichannel shopping experience. He is an advisor for multiple other start-ups in a variety of industries and believes that his main purpose in life is to be an Entrepreneur, Protagonist, Husband, and Friend.
Life Motto to Live By: Think different and question the assumptions.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Finding what makes you thrive
- How you can learn from a proven track record of success at major companies
- The way to identify gaps in your industry and how to fill them
- Who to turn to when looking for the right co-founders
- Modernizing an industry to make greater efficiencies
- Streamlining sales systems to create end-to-end solutions
- Corporate development strategies proven to create growth
- Listening to your customers to develop your strategy and technology
- How partnerships with your customers and end users can create business ecosystems
Ways to contact Heath:
- Website: www.partakegolf.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Twitter: @heathbarnett1
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/heathabarnett
A transcript of this episode is available here: systemexecution.com/mobile-commerce-platform-for-golf-industry