Mark Cranney

Professional Sales is an on-campus program that offers students the opportunity to advance their careers by becoming better equipped to sell themselves, their products and services, or their businesses. Through the program, students learn the fundamentals of selling, how to manage sales, entrepreneurial skills, participate in competitions and networking events that can be applied to a variety of different careers. Our Mission Southern Utah University Professional Sales provides critical education for students to develop the skills and abilities necessary to succeed in sales-oriented professions at the highest levels of compensation. We achieve our mission through in-class and real life educational experiences that connects them with industry partners to pursue careers after graduation. Our Focus The Professional Sales program provides students a pathway in which they can study, learn, and practice sales skills that are essential to be successful in their chosen careers. In doing so, we focus on preparing students to confidently enter the workforce with industry partners from various backgrounds. Our Goal Our goal is twofold. Our first goal is to surpass current industry leader expectations in student development and career readiness and provide a workforce skilled in sales to new and existing organizations. Secondly, we aspire to become the leading professional sales program in the country.

TEAL’s Network Orchestration Service (NOS) and patented, GSMA certified eSIM technology connects any compatible device onto any data network worldwide. With more built-in network operator integrations than any other platform provider, TEAL gives businesses everywhere the flexibility and control to remotely deploy and switch between networks, ensuring the highest level of reliability and performance for any mission critical solution. TEAL supports customers across many industries including fleet management, robotics, AI, BVLOS drones, industrial IoT, healthcare, EV infrastructure, agriculture, railways, smart city infrastructure, and energy. We believe in a world where you should be in control of your connectivity and with TEAL you gain the freedom to choose which networks your devices connect to. This saves companies time and money while delivering all the advantages of lightning-fast connectivity. TEAL has been named the fastest-growing company in Washington State and the Seattle-Metro area, and we’re ranked 122nd nationally on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list! With a staggering 2,961% revenue growth over the past three years, we’ve also claimed the title of the 9th fastest-growing software company in the United States.

Professional Sales is an on-campus program that offers students the opportunity to advance their careers by becoming better equipped to sell themselves, their products and services, or their businesses. Through the program, students learn the fundamentals of selling, how to manage sales, entrepreneurial skills, participate in competitions and networking events that can be applied to a variety of different careers. Our Mission Southern Utah University Professional Sales provides critical education for students to develop the skills and abilities necessary to succeed in sales-oriented professions at the highest levels of compensation. We achieve our mission through in-class and real life educational experiences that connects them with industry partners to pursue careers after graduation. Our Focus The Professional Sales program provides students a pathway in which they can study, learn, and practice sales skills that are essential to be successful in their chosen careers. In doing so, we focus on preparing students to confidently enter the workforce with industry partners from various backgrounds. Our Goal Our goal is twofold. Our first goal is to surpass current industry leader expectations in student development and career readiness and provide a workforce skilled in sales to new and existing organizations. Secondly, we aspire to become the leading professional sales program in the country.

TEAL’s Network Orchestration Service (NOS) and patented, GSMA certified eSIM technology connects any compatible device onto any data network worldwide. With more built-in network operator integrations than any other platform provider, TEAL gives businesses everywhere the flexibility and control to remotely deploy and switch between networks, ensuring the highest level of reliability and performance for any mission critical solution. TEAL supports customers across many industries including fleet management, robotics, AI, BVLOS drones, industrial IoT, healthcare, EV infrastructure, agriculture, railways, smart city infrastructure, and energy. We believe in a world where you should be in control of your connectivity and with TEAL you gain the freedom to choose which networks your devices connect to. This saves companies time and money while delivering all the advantages of lightning-fast connectivity. TEAL has been named the fastest-growing company in Washington State and the Seattle-Metro area, and we’re ranked 122nd nationally on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list! With a staggering 2,961% revenue growth over the past three years, we’ve also claimed the title of the 9th fastest-growing software company in the United States.

GTMfund is an early-stage VC fund focused on B2B SaaS. Our 350+ limited partners are the best go-to-market (GTM) executives in tech. Operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies - Salesforce, Okta, Tableau, Mulesoft, Procore, Snowflake, Segment, ServiceNow, Rippling, and many more. GTMfund is more than capital. We have a flywheel of resources to support our portfolio companies grow revenue, hire, and build distribution: - GTMfund: The VC fund itself. - Community: Access to hundreds of the best GTM operators in tech. - Talent: Resources to help you recruit and hire the best operators to your team. - GTMnow: A media brand, including an industry leading newsletter, podcast and more. We help you get from zero to IPO.

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/