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Ralph Harper, Chief Executive Officer of DPLOYIT, Inc. is a seasoned professional with over 16 years corporate work experience. He has held a number of leadership roles at Fortune 100 companies including Equitable Life Assurance, Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Throughout Harper's corporate career, he has been responsible for proposing, planning, developing, deploying and supporting enterprise technologies and systems worldwide. Harper has a degree in Business Administration with a minor in Computer Science from Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama. Harper is a proven leader with an extensive and impressive track record of delivering measurable results. Harper left PepsiCo in 2001. Harper founded DPLOYIT in July of 2000. However, the company was not fully operational until the Spring of 2002. Harper placed strict focus on building strong business and strategic relationships as a way to enhance business development. Those relationships showed signs of paying off as DPLOYIT exceed its revenue goals in the company's first year of operations. Under Harper's leadership, in 2009, DPLOYIT was recognized by INC, Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. In its INC Magazine debut, DPLOYIT landed in the top 20% of 5000 companies recognized. Harper has been key note speaker at the Dallas Fort Worth Minority Business Council on at least two occasions. He spearheaded a seminar for minority business owners which focused on the need to manage and nurture "Business Relationships." Mr. Harper was also the keynote speaker of a three part leadership series which focus on 1. Being prepared to do business with Fortune companies; 2. Selling to Fortune companies; and 3. Maintaining and supporting Fortune companies the years after the sell. Harper also, was keynote speaker at the Minority Business Summit hosted by McGraw Hill at their corporate office in Manhattan, NY. Over 50 small business owners attended the summit.
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