Meet our outstanding team!

The Endurance Group hires smart, articulate people with outstanding sales and marketing backgrounds who are passionate about opening new doors and uncovering new opportunities for our clients. Our goal is to develop a true partnership with our clients marked by open communications and mutual respect.

The success of our business is a tribute to the talented team
of Business Development Consultants and management staff
we've been able to assemble. Our staff has years of sales and
marketing expertise in a variety of industries. Many members of our
staff are early retirees who have held senior level sales and marketing
positions at large corporations. Our staff never employs a script when talking
with a prospect. Our Business Development Consultants are quick studies who thoroughly master our client’s value proposition and who excel at delivering this message at senior management levels.

Here is a sample of some of our talented staff:

Kristopher Lucas

Kristopher (Kris) Lucas brings over twenty-five years of sales experience to The Endurance Group. He is a results oriented enthusiastic executive with significant experience in the consumer products industry. Kris is working with several Endurance Group clients including a large telecommunications company and a Chicago manufacturing firm. At every company he has worked for, he has been successful at expanding market share through new market penetration and growing net profitability thru smart business practices in both sales acquisition and execution.

In his most recent position, at Village Candle, he succeeded in doubling total sales by adding SUPERVALU, Safeway and Kroger to their retail network. Kris has deep experience developing and managing large broker sales forces at both national and smaller regional brokers.

Kris has also been a successful entrepreneur. He founded of Kathadin Coffee in 1999. He created and built the brand and developed an extensive distributor network throughout New England and New York State and won major customers at Hannaford, Shaws and Stop and Shop. Kris sold the company in 2002.

Kris earned a B.A. in Government from Norwich University in Vermont and was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army.

Tom Patterson

Tom has been with the Endurance Group since February 2011 and brings a broad marketing and sales with a focus on financial services and technology to the Endurance Group. He has experience in new account creation, same-store sales growth, developing and implementing strategic sales plans, team management, client management, partnership marketing and new business development to achieve sales objectives. Since joining the Endurance Group, he has been the Account Lead for two of our management consultant clients and has been successful in working with them to identify and close new business with major Fortune 500 companies in the areas of process improvement, internal audit and tax compliance.

Prior to joining the Endurance Group, Tom held senior sales management positions at NelNet Inc. and US Bancorp.

Tom earned a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cynthia McCormack

Cyndi has been with the Endurance Group since March 2008 and brings a diverse background of knowledge and experience which has led to her success working on behalf of Endurance Group clients. She has been the Account Lead for one of our major management consulting clients for the past three years and her efforts have resulted in several new clients for this client. Her business development efforts have targeted senior executives at most major utility and energy firms in the United States and Canada.

Prior to joining the Endurance Group, Cyndi spent ten years as a high school Spanish Teacher Her sales background includes six years with Estee Lauder and two years with Interactive Data Corp. She was introduced to sales early in her life, working in her family’s real estate business.

Cyndi earned a B.A. in Communications from Bridgewater State College.

Kellie Keefe

Kellie joined the Endurance Group in September 2008 to work on a large Supermarket Client. Over the past year, Kellie has been a leader on this team that that helped our client earn over $3,000,000 in sales. Kellie has been particularly effective in establishing Gift Card Programs with schools and non-profits throughout New England.

Prior to joining the Endurance Group, Kellie has run her own successful personal training business. She also worked in sales and marketing for the financial firms AG Edwards and Tucker Anthony.

Kellie earned a B.S. in Economics from Bentley College and also holds a Series 7 License.