Team Q&A: Ethan Gross – Business Development Representative

Developing and fostering relationships is as crucial to our new Business Development Representative, Ethan Gross, as his sustainability efforts to make the world a little greener! Join us in welcoming Ethan to the Virtual Peaker team!

How did your previous life prepare you for Virtual Peaker? 

Both personally and professionally, I’ve always had a focus on relationship building and helping others as much as I can. Being able to help others on such a large scale, as Virtual Peaker does, was a natural fit for me, and I look forward to making an impact in each interaction I have. 

Tell us about your role at Virtual Peaker. 

In my role as a Business Development Representative, I meet with potential clients and focus on identifying and qualifying new business opportunities. I get to be the first point of contact in the relationship-building process. I work to find out all I can about where a client is currently, what pain points they may have, and make the introduction to all that Virtual Peaker has to offer. 

How do you personally engage in sustainability efforts?

I engage in sustainability efforts in my everyday life by doing what I can, whether that be recycling, taking public transportation, using reusable water bottles, shopping local or hitting up the farmers market each weekend with my wife. I also participate in beach cleanups every time I’m visiting my family, who live a block off the beach. I tend to take the approach of leaving things better than I found them. 

What can you tell us about yourself?

I spent a lot of my life moving around and feel I’ve taken pieces of each location to make me who I am today. A love for the beach from my time in NC, a love for the outdoors from being in WV, good food and drink from living right outside two major cities (NYC and Chicago), and a general love for my family and friends. Outside of all that, I’m a big music fan, book guy, and for some reason, I continue to golf as much as possible despite lacking the needed skills.

About The Author

Bill is a serial entrepreneur with a PhD from UC Berkeley in Controls and Artificial Intelligence and 10 years of experience with high performance residential energy management and connected appliances. He was previously at GE as an Advanced Systems Engineer in the Connected Home Software Group, but left that role in May 2014 to pursue entrepreneurship full time.

Bill grew up in Louisville and returned with his family in 2010 after a long stint in the San Francisco Bay Area. He loves Louisville and is working to make it a better and more attractive city for high tech startups.

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