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Pharma Sales To Med Device CEO: The Jeff Smith Story Part 2

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It was 2007 and 2008. I pitched it to my manager at the time, Steve Carmody, who is my Regional Sales Manager. McCormack , who had been my customer that is a spine surgeon in San Francisco, calls me out of the blue and was like, “I want to tell you about an idea.” That became Providence Medical Technology. What year was this?

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Deep Career Insights And A Side Of Orthopedics With Eric Ford Part 1

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In October of 2007, I had a former offer from Johnson & Johnson, and it was a leadership development program. You started in 2007. They were saying the sales rep was dead. Several years from now, there will be no more sales reps. That’s the one thing in my mind, my senior year, that I knew I could get a job.

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