Tarny Perkins Senior Executive/Asia Pacific/Sales, Marketing, Business Development
Tarny Perkins is an Entrepreneur
with a powerful blend of sales and marketing expertise. Mr. Perkins has a
great ability to interface with technology and sales teams. Tarny has
proven skills in developing new markets and creating demand. Mr. Perkins was successful
in conceptualizing and then leading a team to build pldtonline.com,
the first online e-commerce gateway into the Philippines that allowed Filipinos
living outside of the Philippines to pay for goods and services as well as send
money, to their friends and relatives in the Philippines. At the same time Mr.
Perkins was the CEO of Wherewithal, a Community Driven Search Engine where he
led fundraising efforts and spearheaded sales and marketing efforts. At
Wherewithal, Mr. Perkins was successful at attracting a stellar Board, created
a solid revenue pipeline and successfully integrated Wherewithal at Kaiser
Permanente in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prior to Wherewithal, Tarny was the
Vice President of Sales and Marketing at seeUthere.com. At seeUthere Mr.
Perkins helped build the company into the premier corporate event portal on the
Internet. Mr. Perkins initiated the partnership that allowed MP3.com to
invest in seeUthere and also built the partnership with PlanSoft that led to
the eventual merger between seeUthere and PlanSoft (OnVantage).
Prior to this, Mr. Perkins spent
twelve years in Asia, initially moving to Hong Kong with Tandem Computers as
the Director of South Asia in charge of Hong Kong, China and the Philippines.
Tarny won virtually every sales award at Tandem. Tarny was the Vice President
of Content for Asia Online in Hong Kong. At Asia Online,
he led a content channel marketing team that accumulated the largest amount of
Asian content (English and Chinese) on the Internet at the time. He
negotiated contracts with all of the content providers, covering the US and
Asia. This included interface with GeoCities, GameSpot, Sina and other
brand-name Internet real estate. Mr. Perkins also opened the Asian Market
for Summa Four, first setting up a rep office in Singapore and building a
pipeline that made Asia Pacific the best performing arm of Summa.
Mr. Perkins is a gifted speaker. He led PR tours and he hosted the IT
segment of Wakeup Call a lifestyle IT morning television segment in the
Philippines. He enjoys surfing and tennis and he played on the Professional
Tennis Tour. He helped form the Surfing Association of the Philippines
(SAPI). Tarny’s dad is a renowned San Francisco Watercolor artist (www.sanfranciscowatercolors.com).
Tarny’s mom writes books. Tarny’s wife has a faith-based hand-made
greeting card business. Tarny’s sister in involved in brand packaging and
home makeovers. And Tarny’s kids are awesome! Mr. Perkins lived in Hong
Kong, Singapore and the Philippines and traveled extensively throughout Asia.
Tarny is an alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley.
