Greg Van Ess - Senior Vice President of Business Development

Greg Van Ess’s focus at Blue Magnet Partners is identifying and developing new business opportunities for Blue Magnet and each of our portfolio companies. He will also focus on tactical marketing activities as well as sales analysis and implementation. This will include the development of sales organizations for all opportunities. He will use his senior organizational leadership experience to support and mentor key management staff for all portfolio companies.

Greg is an energetic, entrepreneurial-oriented business professional powerful in creation and execution of high-impact business development initiatives. He has more than 29 years experience in senior management roles, ranging from small business ownership to the Fortune 500 multi-national/multi-cultural levels. His background includes running international and domestic operations with annual revenues of over $200M, large customer service and engineering services P&Ls, and general management of several early-stage and small businesses. His industrial background spans the bandwidth of the advanced technology arenas, as well as small business ownership in the retail, commercial construction, and real estate holdings markets.

Van Ess was most recently President of The Van Ess Group, a privately held business entity created for the sole purpose of enabling effective research, due diligence, financial assessment and acquisition of small businesses. He spent 17 years with Schlumberger Ltd. in positions ranging from manufacturing engineer to Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing in Telecommunications and IT Outsourcing. Based in Singapore from 1996 until 2000, Greg was VP & GM for the Asian region and then held this position in North America for Schlumberger’s Semiconductor Equipment operations. Greg has particular expertise in development of complex domestic and international markets, global account management, key account capture, and the competitive product and solution environments.

Greg earned his B.S.E.E. from Clarkson University in upstate New York.