Testimonials

When I started my LED lighting business in 2003, and being a scientist and engineer, I knew I needed help. Fortunately for me I found Carl Kalin. Carl’s sales and marketing skills, backed up by solid technical chops, provided a vital underpinning to the startup. Carl developed a marketing plan and executed it, quickly becoming the Company’s VP of Sales & Marketing. 

By signing up sales reps around the country, we were able to grow rapidly by leveraging the skills of a small core team of employees. We signed up several large national accounts and developed and manufactured products for companies vastly larger than ourselves. We could not have done this without Carl’s focused approach and unfailing determination.

As a young cash-constrained company, Carl was an important part of the team, helping to position the company to raise capital from venture firms. Developing detailed business plans, giving presentations, and satisfying the due diligence requirements of investors all proved important to raising the capital needed to grow the company into a multi-million dollar business.
- A. Catalano, PhD, Founder and CEO of Terralux

Note: Terralux was started as an LED lighting company in 2003 and raised over $40M in VC funding from US and European Clean Energy funds including Al Gore's GIM fund in London and Emerald Technology Ventures out of Zurich. 

Carl helped me greatly with my consulting business over the course of a year. He has a natural ability to think out of the box and to see things that I could not. In our work together, he had my back 100%. He  helped me see solutions to key problems and to stay inspired in the marathon of building a business. His natural enthusiasm for business is contagious and inspiring.

- Stuart Motola, Men's Relationship Coach and Author, StuartMotola.com