If you are thinking about your personal brand or how you are perceived online, Paul Sims shares an article that may help you define the traits that are important to you. I attended the funeral of a close friend last week and, as those things often do, it caused me to reflect. I thought about the question, “How do you want people to describe you?” There have been many articles written about what you want on your tombstone, what kind…

Paul Sims shares an article and template that reveals how to write the perfect follow-up email. When you’re in the job search, you’re going to start meeting influential people in person for job interviews, informational interviews, and networking. You need to impress these people and stand out in order to keep moving along in the hiring process, get referrals, and go into the interview with momentum. If you don’t impress these people, then you wasted both your time and their…

Paul Sims shares an article that explores the battle lines being drawn in the digital auto marketplace space and why US companies should care. The digital auto marketplace space outside the US is hot and battle lines are being drawn – today a discussion of Europe. If you’re not based in Europe, why should you care? If you’re in the auto space, you should expect US companies, both auto & e-commerce, to try to buy some European players as they…

Paul Sims shares an article on the trends driving change in the automotive industry that was published in Automotive Ventures.  There are many changes happening in the North American retail car market. The obvious ones are covered ad nauseam in the general press and the automotive conversations – connectivity, autonomous, subscription, and electrification, However, there are several trends impacting dealers and consumers more immediately and these are:  1.Margin pressure. Certainly the one that dealers have been lamenting for years are…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Paul Sims with Agile, Inc.  Paul is a Harvard MBA and former Boston Consulting Group consultant with 20 years of founder, C-suite, and board experience as well as experience advising clients with a variety of growth-related engagements and digital transformation. He has deep executive/operational experience in go to market, disruption, digital transformation, and innovation having built several new channels and ventures inside of privately held or F500 multinationals as well as personally starting & scaling…