NORTH BARRINGTON, IL, February 28, 2024 - George Kriza has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Kriza is the Chief Executive Officer at Challenging Decisions, a firm he founded in 2019 that offers management expertise to entrepreneurs, small business and middle market chief executive officers, and other top executives as they work through various business challenges. Assisting with key matters, including strategy, process design, software development, finance, culture, and team effectiveness, Mr. Kriza focuses on helping clients struggling with making critical decisions by rapidly assessing circumstances, and then enabling necessary changes both in the organization and the management methods of the executive team, emphasizing both speed and cost effectiveness.
Leveraging decades of experience, Mr. Kriza is recognized as an expert in the personal computer and consumer electronics industries. He is a well-known resource in channel marketing, sales, and particularly channel incentives for technology markets.
Mr. Kriza founded a sales incentive company, MTC Performance, in Schaumburg, Illinois, which he managed for over 25 years as its President and Chief Executive Officer before ultimately selling it to 360Insights of Whitby ON. At MTCPerformance, Mr. Kriza most notably conceived, developed, and evolved an enterprise class BPM / workflow software application adopted by numerous multi-billion-dollar companies for sales incentive management. During a 3 year period, he notably grew its revenue by over 473%, becoming an INC500 CEO.
In light of his success in software product design and development, Mr. Kriza has been recognized for his work with a multitude of accolades: in 2006 Crain's Fast 50 and Crain's Top 300, the 2010 Paybefore award for Best Sales Channel Solution, in 2017 a Business Intelligence Group Award for New Product of the Year and several additional Product of the Year Awards in other categories. He also won a Stevie Sales and Customer Service Award and an IT World Award. Furthermore, Mr. Kriza has been featured in the media on various outlets and in several professional publications.
Mr. Kriza began his career in sales as a representative for Sony Corporation in the Chicago region. In 1979 he was awarded the Sony Samurai award for national sales achievement. He worked for GB Marketing from 1981 to 1984, representing Apple Computer and numerous other technology companies, introducing the Lisa and Macintosh computers, and was recognized as the Number One Regional Salesperson for Apple Computer in Chicago. In 1986, he was recruited by Panasonic Industrial Company as District Sales Manager.
Mr. Kriza studied physics, chemistry, and mathematics coursework at the Illinois Institute of Technology and social sciences at Morton College. He also received certification in system dynamics through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.
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