Mission-critical infrastructure

Brett
Sands

Sales Director, Critical Power · Worcester, Massachusetts

I sell into the places where failure isn't an option: data centers, airports, hospitals, campuses and utility networks.

Brett Sands
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Approach

For more than ten years my customers have been the people responsible for keeping critical facilities running. They don't buy from a brochure. They buy from people they trust, and they keep buying from people who tell them the truth.

Most of my career has been in network and critical infrastructure: fiber pathway, network systems, and now uninterrupted power. Different products, same buildings and the same stakes. I work at the specification stage, alongside architects, engineers and contractors, where the real decisions get made years before a purchase order.

"I'd rather be the first phone call for a solution than win every single order."
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Results

FigureProject / outcome
3M ftJFK International Airport terminal build-outSpecified across a 2.5-year cycle with architects, engineers, contractors, DHS and TSA
$3M+/yrNational specified position with VerizonWon in 2021 and still producing revenue every year
$1.2M → $3MNational utility verticalGrown in about ten months while leading six regional managers and two inside sales reps
$2.8M → $8MNew England territoryEarned expansion to an eight-state region at roughly $14.6M a year
$1.6MRhode Island Route 146 fiber expansionCaptured on a single purchase order
109%2024 · #1 in division
104%of plan
102%of plan
101%of plan
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Credentials

Three disciplines that rarely sit in one person. On complex facility projects, the buyer, the engineer, the contractor and the insurance carrier all need answers, and I can speak credibly to each of them.

Infrastructure sales

Ten-plus years leading revenue in fiber, network and critical power.

Public adjuster

Licensed Public Insurance Adjuster, active in New England.

Construction

Former Massachusetts Construction Supervisor License: code, trades and scope.

  • Verizon
  • AT&T
  • Crown Castle
  • Hanscom AFB
  • MBTA Green Line Extension
  • Gillette Stadium
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Experience

  • Sales Director, Critical PowerUninterrupted power for data centers and critical facilities
  • National Sales Manager, Utility · Maxcell / WescoBuilt and led the national utility program
  • Regional Sales Manager, Northeast · Maxcell / WescoEight states, NY to Maine
  • Inside Sales Manager · AnixterLed a team of five at a Fortune 500 distributor
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Contact

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