GeneLink: Sharon Tahaney Named Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing of GeneWize Life Sciences

GeneLink, Inc., a consumer genomics biotech company, announced the appointment of Sharon M. Tahaney to the position of Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing of GeneWize Life Sciences, Inc.

Tahaney comes from a broad background in Network Marketing. Having recently served as the Senior Vice President of Leadership Development for both Tupperware U.S. & Canada, Tahaney successfully directed field leadership growth and training while also leading the communications, events and training teams. At Tupperware she created and directed Leadership Training resulting in dramatic increases in the effectiveness of both personal and team recruiting.

The company said that Tahaney will now lead the sales and marketing efforts of GeneWize, which specializes in genetically personalized nutritional and skincare products and is the wholly owned subsidiary of GeneLink. According to company officials, Tahaney is a respected and proven sales & marketing executive with extensive experience creating Direct Sales growth and revenue producing results. As Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing of GeneWize, Tahaney will be responsible for directing the marketing and sales strategy, leading and training Affiliate sales teams, marketing-communications and event departments.

Tahaney, the company added, has enjoyed success in the direct selling industry for almost 30 years and authored four books on personal and financial management, a book on direct selling strategies, and taught thousands of direct selling professionals strategies to enhance performance. Her books include: "Smart Connections, the Little Book With a Big Payoff;" "One for the Money;" "Living a Rich Life;" "Money and More...For Secure and Joyful Living;" and her latest book, "Pink Sky At Night, Brightening The Forecast For the Direct Selling Business."

Monte Taylor, the CEO of GeneLink and GeneWize said: "We are thrilled to be able to add a professional of Sharon's caliber to our GeneWize team. She is an accomplished executive specializing in Direct Marketing and sales leadership with a history of success in creating revenue-producing results. Sharon is an experienced strategic analyst as well as a relationship and people builder. We look forward to working with her in the realization of the growth potential resulting from the combination of GeneLink's proprietary and cutting edge science and technology and Sharon's seasoned and proven direct marketing experience. I'm sure that GeneWize's more than 10,000 active Affiliates will enjoy meeting Sharon at our upcoming Scientific Summit in Orlando on May 29 & 30."

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