Aspireship

Aspireship Inc operates multiple brands to help people transform their career trajectory.

Our brands:

Aspireship - Upskilling platform for B2B tech companies 
- aspireship.com

Orchard - Career Discovery for students and career changers
- orchard.careers

Teacher Career Coach - Online Courses, resources and community to help transitioning teachers find a great career after deciding to leave the classroom. 
- teachercareercoach.com

Founder & CEO

Story Ventures

As a Scout Investor, I'm privileged to be able to invest in founders of early-stage startups with the conviction to create positive change.

Story Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in NYC.

We invest in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and the proliferation of data to impact the way people interact with the world.

Scout Investor

MINDBODY, Inc.

Acquired by Vista Equity Partners.

Led the integration of Frederick into the MINDBODY organization. Frederick now powers the MINDBODY and Booker premium product editions to bring AI driven marketing to beauty, fitness and wellness businesses worldwide.

Vice President & GM, Frederick

Booker Software

Acquired by MINDBODY.

Continued to operate as CEO of Frederick following the acquisition by Booker Software.

CEO, Frederick

Frederick

Acquired by Booker and MINDBODY. 

Created the world’s first marketing automation platform for local businesses that’s powered by artificial intelligence. We call him Frederick, and he’s the smartest marketing engine local businesses have ever seen.

Dell

Building Dell's relationships with top venture capital firms, angel investors, Fortune 500 innovation departments and fast-growth startups.

Director, Center for Entrepreneurs

PhoneTell

PhoneTell makes mobile local search apps for consumers and wireless operators. 

My role was a hybrid of product management and business development. I was responsible for a Top 40 Travel & Local consumer app and worked alongside the CEO/COO to close and support deals with large wireless carriers globally.

VP, Product & Business Development

Game Change Ventures

Worked with consumer internet, e-commerce and SaaS startups to help them launch and grow innovative companies.

Managing Partner

Club E Network

Grew a local organization that began as a student club at Arizona State University into a multi-state organization with 10 chapters and an online network reaching entrepreneurs around the world.

President

The Business Journal

Guest Columnist

CEO @ Aspireship | Helping people get hired in tech sales and customer success

I’ve dedicated my professional career to helping people who want to help themselves. Currently, I’m building Aspireship Inc.

Aspireship Inc operates multiple brands to help people transform their career trajectory.

Our brands:

Aspireship - Upskilling platform for B2B tech companies 
- aspireship.com

Orchard - Career Discovery for students and career changers
- orchard.careers

Teacher Career Coach - Online Courses, resources and community to help transitioning teachers find a great career after deciding to leave the classroom. 
- teachercareercoach.com



Corey Kossack

Edge

Account Executive Sales Manager

Account Executive III

Account Executive II

Account Executive I

Yelp

Persuasively present Small to Mid-sized businesses how Yelp is an effective advertising platform to market their services and reach consumers at the bottom of the purchasing funnel.

Account Executive

Gartner

Helping executive professionals and C-Level business Executives expand their knowledge and achieve initiatives through Gartner events.

Gartner, offers the world’s leading executives unparalleled opportunities to network and collaborate with their peers and learn the latest insights, trends, and best practices in their industry and function.

Gartner's Worldwide Events is the leading producer of conferences globally. We produce over 60 “must attend” events across 6 continents, designed to serve the needs of the key technology roles and functions in the world’s largest corporations and government organizations.

Conference Sales Executive

Coins Since 1994 & World Mint Gold, Inc.

Developed Strategy and Managed Projects:

-Performed SWOT and gleaning major competitor trends

-Created budgets and timelines, possible obstacles and outcomes for different projects involving anywhere from 1 to 5 people

-Created training materials for all inter-company stakeholders

-Hired, fired and negotiated with both W-2 and 1099 employees/contractors needed for different projects

-Developed ongoing tracking and measurement tools (software/processes)

-Held daily staff meetings with action-items, outcomes and goals; held quarterly meetings to measure successes/opportunities

-Pivoted or shifted priorities, budgets, timelines and projects based on leadership directives on an 'as-needed' basis

-Created new product (Live Digital Auction) from scratch which still exists successfully today (here) (planning, negotiating fees/rates, marketing/sales of auction items, managing inventory, shipping products to customers and improving on repeat auction-bidders)

-Managed ongoing list of over 28k customers including but not limited to: Creating and sending weekly newsletter to all customers based on existing market trends/pricing/availability, adding new subscribers, responding to inquiries, handling escalations/customer concerns in a manner that ensures a 5-star experience

-Created language, process and tools for employees to list products on Ebay, Facebook marketplace, OfferUp and Amazon

-Created new and custom text-message and email campaigns (ensuring CAN-SPAM and FCC compliance) including use of NFC & QR code technology with both in-person and online customers

-Managed and delegated all websites and online pages, hired contractors to design and create branding/logos/designs and made adjustments based on sales and revenue targets/customer feedback, click-thru rates, etc.

Account Executive | Account Manager | Trader

Core Health & Fitness - Star Trac, StairMaster, Nautilus & Schwinn commercial fitness products

As a Product Support Specialist at Core Health & Fitness my small team of 20 would take between 20-30 calls per day to support technicians of our products for warranty purposes. 

The most challenging (and rewarding) part of this position is that we were responsible for being a tier-3 electro-mechanical troubleshooter who could identify root-causes with the technician who was the eyes and ears, by asking process-questions and then sending the given part(s) to resolve the issue, as well as processing compensation documentation for the technicians time and scheduling secondary visit, requiring estimating shipping timelines with technicians schedule to ensure customer had fastest and best possible results. HIGHLY COMPLEX. 

In addition we were responsible for taking phone calls from the club-owners, corporate leaders, from $1MIL-$500MIL key accounts if the technical support team was unable to solve a problem from a transfer queue. Customer calls in with a problem, tech support cannot fix it, transfers to our queue, we answer as fast as possible and start doing advanced troubleshooting and scheduling technicians for visits along with parts that we think would help.

This was the most intensive job I have ever had, as it required us to bear in mind timelines, money spent on parts (recoupment costs), customers impression of our company, technicians schedule and stress, mechanical and electronic systems, all under the guise of Salesforce.com and doing our best to create brand ambassadors of our customer base.

We were rated on KPI's including SLA, shipping/parts costs, first-time-fix rate, and Salesforce case close rate. From day one I was in the top 10% performers by staying highly competitive in feedback and metrics reviews and to this day Core Health has asked me to come back a number of times, they're like a family to me.

Product Support Representative

GoWireless, Inc.

Verizon Retail Sales Consultant 

Nationwide Security Solutions

I still enjoy and converse with Jason, the owner of Nationwide to this day. He is my original mentor who inspired my focus in sales. This company built a new inside sales team to cold call potential home-security clients for installation appointments with technicians. This was a boiler room and it was hard. 

We were rated at this job on installations and every single month, I was the top performer. I still remember the first month we started, I knew I was different than the others because I had 34 installations at the end of the month and the closest to me had 19. 

This was one of the hardest jobs I had, commissions were horrible and I knew nothing about what I was worth or where I could go but it gave me the legs under me that I walk on today, will never forget it. :D

Inside Salesperson/Team Manager

US Army

Responsible for supervising or performing maintenance on Army watercraft and auxiliary equipment on marine vessels, shipboard firefighting and a host of other tasks in combat.

-Perform daily systems checks 
-Repair and maintain gasoline and diesel engines
-Troubleshoot and repair watercraft propulsion machinery
-Repair and service hoisting, lift machinery and engine-related electrical systems

Marine Engineman I Certified until 2013
*1st in class, of 34 students
*Support missions and cross training with Navy SEALS, US Navy Submariners, Army Corps of Engineers and AMSA, Law Enforcement Training Support, Public Relations Support
*Platoon Guide (leader of 60 men), Squad Leader (12 men)

88L- Watercraft Engineer (Reservist)

"Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsch

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