Feb. 20, 2023

Ralph Hess - Executive VP - Sales and Marketing - Navigator Business Solutions

In this episode of Life Science Success, my guest is Ralph Hess.  Ralph is the Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at Navigator Business Solutions.   Navigator Business Solutions  is a global leader in Cloud Based ERP Solutions...

In this episode of Life Science Success, my guest is Ralph Hess.  Ralph is the Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at Navigator Business Solutions.   Navigator Business Solutions  is a global leader in Cloud Based ERP Solutions from SAP AG and they focus in on the life sciences industry.

Here is a link to Navigator Business Solutions:

https://www.nbs-us.com/sap-erp-for-life-sciences

 

Introduction

 

01:57 Tell listeners a little bit about yourself.

06:08 Can you tell us just a little bit about what brought you to navigate our business? 

07:56 Whenever companies come to you, what exactly they would look like? I could kind of envision, how they might be operating up to the point of coming to you.

10:40 What sort of systems, do you help them implement and what does it do for the organization?

12:34 What does the implementation look like as well?

15:47 What are some of the biggest opportunities for Navigator Business Solutions?

22:11 There are three questions that I like to ask every guest.

-What Inspires you?

24:11 -What concerns you? 

27:12 -What excites you?

 

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Ralph Hess

Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Ralph Hess is the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Navigator Business Solutions, a computer software company that provides cloud-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) business solutions. As the number 1 SAP cloud partner in North America, Ralph is making strides with hands-on, problem solving leadership in a technical industry. He prides himself for his ideology of “technology for business sake” so that his solutions are designed to meet the needs of businesses.

Ralph has over 30 years of experience in helping companies solve their business problems with technology and is well-known within the SAP Eco System because of his success. His company has achieved 25% growth over the last two years and has served over 500 clients since its founding 15 years ago.

Ralph began his journey as an entry level programmer in the early 80’s and never looked back. He “caught the bug” and left college to take a $5 an hour programming job. From there, he founded his own firm in 1994 working as an IBM reseller. Ralph also has experience as a Microsoft and Epicor reseller. His first was one of the founding reselling channel partners for SAP, establishing the channel in the SME marketplace in 2004.

Ralph and his team have helped companies grow exponentially. As a company, Navigator Business Solutions helps businesses plan for growth with enterprise resource planning software and by optimizing company processes. Navigator Business Solutions brings a personal approach to understanding their clients’ business to know where they are, where they wan… Read More

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