Gerhard Gschwandtner
Publisher, Selling Power and Founder & CEO of Personal Selling, Inc. 
Gerhard Gschwandtner has more than three decades of international sales and marketing experience. Gerhard is the founder and CEO of Personal Selling Power, Inc., a magazine and book publishing company located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After seven years as an international sales and marketing executive in Austria, France, and the United States, he started a sales training consulting company and trained over 10,000 salespeople in Europe and the United States. In 1981, he started Selling Power magazine on a shoestring budget and turned it into the leading sales management magazine, with a circulation of 98,000 subscribers in 67 countries. Today, in addition to Selling Power magazine, Personal Selling Power, Inc. has a book-publishing division, an online video division, a sales leadership conference series, and a website. Gerhard has created books on selling and management, and two books on photography.
