Kurt Shaver is America's Social Selling Expert. As the founder of The Sales Foundry, Kurt helps B2B organizations implement social selling skills to reach more decision makers. Kurt began as a salesperson selling million dollar networks for AT&T. He later held executive sales positions with Venture Capital (VC) backed start-ups in Silicon Valley. This background of real-world sales and management experiences resulted in his mastery of traditional selling and sales training techniques.As technology changed buying habits, Kurt evolved as a thought leader in the emerging practice of Social Selling. Having used applications like LinkedIn to build his own business, he subsequently trained thousands of business professionals learn how to do the same. Kurt is the creator of the Social Selling Boot Camp and has spoken at events including Dreamforce, Sales 2.0, LinkedIn Connect, and the AA-ISP Social Selling conference. Sales Foundry clients include Hewlett Packard, TelePacific Communications, Maritz Travel, Nexus-Dimension Data, and City National Bank among others. Learn more and get a free, custom assessment of your company’s social selling skills at www.thesalesfoundry.com.