Email: Theresa.Heath@OneAccordPartners.com
Cell Phone: 480.236.8312

With over 25 years of sales and marketing experience, Ms. Heath has deep experience in creating and implementing business development plans that reinvigorate sales teams and grow new products and markets. She is also an intrepid leader with a proven ability to manage global and domestic sales and marketing implementations that achieve crucial company objectives. In addition, she is highly skilled in developing valuable alliances and partnerships that reduce costs and increase revenue and profitability.

Ms. Heath has deep and broad functional knowledge with Fortune 500 companies including Quest Diagnostics, McKesson and Laboratory Corporation of America. Theresa led Sales and Marketing of the Arizona Laboratory for Quest Diagnostics, the $6.3B provider of diagnostic testing. During her tenure she managed a sales organization of 30 people and in 6 months reversed a net revenue trend from a loss of nearly $500K annualized to a gain of $720K while increasing revenue by $6M. Throughout her sales career, Ms. Heath consistently exceeded individual and team quotas, was ranked at the top of her peers and led start-up divisions, acquisition integrations and unit turnarounds.

Ms. Heath has also garnered considerable experience in bringing new technology to market: in leading Sales and Marketing for Veracel, a start-up venture capital firm, she developed strategic partnerships with top-tier academic institutions and established an industry presence in the US and European marketplaces. As Director, Worldwide Marketing, Women’s Health Diagnostics for Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., her accomplishments include launching a DNA test with revenue growth exceeding budget by 25% the first year. While Vice President of Market Development at Sensys Medical, another venture capital firm, Ms. Heath created a $50M market and business plan for a new product which has served to chart the company’s path the past 4 years. Ms. Heath also served as the Director of Strategic Accounts for EXACT Sciences, Inc., where she was a leader on the team that was successful in getting the company’s DNA test added to American Cancer Society guidelines for colon cancer screening. This multi-year effort lays the foundation to revolutionize colon cancer screening and prevention.

Throughout her career, Ms. Heath has excelled in the areas of Sales Leadership, Strategic Planning, New Market Development, Acquisition Planning and Integration and Alliances & Partnerships.

Ms. Heath graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University. She is a Member of Standard & Poor’s Vista Research Society of Industry Leaders and a volunteer in the mentoring program for the Arizona State University Technopolis entrepreneurial program. A wife and mother of two teenage girls, she enjoys travel, yoga/Pilates, music, and cooking for family and friends.