Kudos

"Telvent DTN Agriculture is a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of information, software tools, and solutions to the Agriculture and broader Commodity Trading market segments. With a high concentration of our business in the USA, we were looking for a highly value added partner to help us cost effectively expand our Commodity Trading business internationally.

We selected Simon Haslam, President and CEO of Blue Ocean Trading Services, to be that partner. We are very pleased with the partnership to date for several reasons. First and foremost, with Mr. Haslam's leadership, we have been able to truly "walk the walk" of Think Global Act Local. By expanding our sales and service resources through our partnership with Blue Ocean Trading Services, we are in the same regions, on the same time zone, and speaking the same language as all of our customers in many parts of the globe. Secondly, we have been able to accomplish this in a far more cost effective manner than had we attempted to expand using our own internal resources. Finally, though an independent sales agency, Mr. Haslam and Blue Ocean sales representatives have tightly integrated their workflow alongside our internal resources, such as customer service, sales administration, and customer accounts, for a truly teamwork approach.

In just two short years, the results have been spectacular with over 200 system sales in 27 countries on 5 continents, and now with sales and service resources in France, Switzerland, UK, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, Singapore, Brazil and Australia, the pace of expansion is expected to further accelerate.

It is my pleasure to recommend Mr. Simon Haslam and Blue Ocean Trading Services as a key business partner to help focus on international expansion in a very cost effective manner.

Michael Browne
Vice President, Commodity Trading
Telvent DTN Agriculture"
Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 2009
Top Qualities: Great Results, Good Value, High Integrity