Jerome Noel

Jerome is a global/international sales and marketing expert, with over 20 years of experience setting up global distribution and managing worldwide sales organizations for the medical device industry, both as an executive (employee) and a consultant (contractor).

Jerome acts as an ambassador to represent a company or product anywhere on the globe, observing, listening, analyzing, negotiating, training and coaching staff to implement local strategies aimed at increasing overseas sales. He opened, closed and managed subsidiaries in Europe and Canada, appointed distributors and penetrated new territories, mostly in Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Middle East.

Jerome has a strong cross-cultural sensitivity (did business in and visited over 70 countries), is a long-term business relationship builder, not threatened by the unknown, keeping an eye on the top and bottom lines while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction. He was VP International at Osborn Medical for 2 years, a company where he started as an external consultant, and held executive positions in International Sales and Marketing at several companies including Possis Medical (now part of Boston Scientific), Sulzer Spine-Tech (now part of Zimmer Biomet) and EMPI.

Jerome moved to the Twin Cities in 1993 from France and was granted American citizenship in 2003. He has lived on 3 continents so far and before Minnesota lived in France and Switzerland. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering, earned his MBA in Finance and Marketing and also has a Certification in Accounting. In addition to English, Jerome speaks German. Jerome is divorced and has 3 children (aged 43, 40, living in France, and 31, living here in Bloomington), and 3 grandchildren.

Jerome became a LinkedIn instructor as he was in transition in the spring of ’09 and soon realized there was a need to pass on general guidelines and networking principles to job seekers using LinkedIn as a tool, as he was attending multiple workshops and networking groups. He taught over 30 LinkedIn group classes as well as presentations on “The Art of Networking”, all pro bono, as a way to give back to the job seeking community, and in October 2012 completed a webinar on LinkedIn for the Minneapolis chapter of SCORE, a nationwide organization helping people build their own business.