Donna Chandler is a business development and sales executive with over 15 years experience in the electronics, computing, communications, and contract manufacturing segments. She is a visionary with outstanding success in business growth for domestic and international markets. A proven driver of sales, marketing, business development, product management, Donna is skilled at inspiring and managing cross-functional collaboration and experienced at administrating multi-million dollar budgets. With strong business acumen, she has successfully led teams through company mergers, and transitions.

Prior to joining Vertical Upside, Donna held key roles at C&D Technologies and Celestica. As Director of Product Development at C&D Donna had responsibility for organizational leadership and managing development teams through product lifecycles; conception, design, production to end of life. Donna worked in tandem with the sales and marketing teams to develop product roadmaps concurrent with market and customer directions. She was responsible for initiatives such as faster development time to market, RoHS conversion for entire product lines, and converting all engineering and operating tools to new company standards. Donna also led and reorganized teams through company downsizing while maintaining and meeting internal and external commitments.

As Business Development Manager at Celestica (CLS) Power Division, Donna was responsible for strategic customer and product roadmaps, and revenue generation for long and short term strategic objectives. Donna was responsible for determining and maintaining product profitability based on ROIC analysis. She led sales and marketing campaigns for domestic and international markets promoting technology and product advancements. Her sales accomplishments generated 37% divisional sales revenue, achieved from new customer engagement and the cultivation of existing customer base. Donna established an account methodology based on consensus building that was adopted throughout company. She was responsible for the creation for marketing and sales material used to drive $35M product lines. Donna’s commitment to a collaborative and customer centric approach to business and market development granted her the Celestica President’s Award.