Map Data: Nairobi, Kenya
Google Earth, Google Maxar Technologies
Sometimes you don’t need to staff a sales team, build a sales funnel and drive a sales pipeline in a new target market. Sometimes you know precisely which company you want to talk to and all you really need entrée to the right person at the right level. BYG has a time-honored network of senior professionals who can help clients to pinpoint senior-most executives within key target companies and offer sage-counsel on precisely how exploit this new beachhead.
At BYG Advantage we keep in touch with the good people we’ve worked with across our careers. Senior-most professionals aren’t in interested shouldering a sales role from prospecting to closure. Rather, if you need help with a precision introduction to key stakeholders in specific new market enterprise, BYG Senior Advisory can be tailored to help gain access at the right level to initiate and nurture a discussion which your existing teams can tactically manage. Talk to us about how to structure an in-market senior advisor for precisely who it is you want to speak with.
We’re here to help! If you have any questions, comments, or inquiries, our friendly team at BYG is ready to assist you. Get in touch with us via our convenient contact form, phone, or email, and our dedicated team will respond promptly. We value your feedback, and we’re committed to providing exceptional customer service.
John Fargis is a senior executive with over twenty-five years of general management experience in the China market. He has run Asia for a range of US and European software companies. Google purchased three of these companies. John is the Co-founder and Principal for BYG Advantage, focused on market acceleration with international technology firms across APAC, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. John’s management experience includes bridging dozens of technology companies into new global market opportunities. Until recently he was also an adjunct professor at the Hult International Business School Shanghai campus where he taught courses on Emerging Markets, Leadership and Chinese History. He is an independent director on the NASDAQ listed technology company, Ispire. (ISPR) and a Board of Managers at the Oakwood Friends School.
John first went to China as a Henry Luce Scholar in 1993 when he worked in Shanghai. He was the first foreigner in the modern era, allowed permission to work in a Chinese reform school. Prior to this assignment he had worked for four years as a New York City, special education schoolteacher in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
John has a B.A. with Honors in Medieval Studies from Wesleyan University, a Masters of Special Education from Hunter College and a Masters of Law and Diplomacy with a focus on international business and Chinese history from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. After resideing for decades in China, John currently lives in New Paltz, New York, not far from where he grew up.
