Meet the Team
Sales Recruiters of Virginia (SRoVA) is dedicated to allowing people and companies to reach their full potential.
SRoVA is a search firm, with a perspective of over 50 years focused exclusively in sales and marketing. We strive to provide our clients with only the top sales professionals.
Managing Partner &
Co-Founder
Jeff Miller has been a top salesperson in every company that he has worked with in a long and successful career in telecommunication sales. Jeff has worked for multi-billion dollar companies (Toshiba, Ericsson) as well as million dollar companies (including his own).
Jeff has managed sales forces from 2 people to 25, and considers himself a “hunter” first. ” I am probably the only person I know that enjoys cold calling. I think it’s either the adventure part or maybe there is just something really wrong with me.”
“Sales Recruiters of Virginia is simply an extension of what Mark Deutsch and I have been doing successfully for the past few years; matching good people up with good companies. Mark and I have created a sales recruiting and training company that any company, large or small, can utilize because we are both highly affordable and we have the ability to deliver high quality candidates.”
Direct: (804) 263-5961
Partner &
Co-Founder
Mark Deutsch is a master connector of people and an author of the national best-seller Building the Ultimate Network. As the CEO of BNI (Business Network International)-Central Virginia and over 20 years of sales experience, Mark has a unique ability to make connections that drive results.
Mark has also been in your shoes. He has served at a C-level with more than a dozen businesses that had up to employees; start-up to mature stages; and with companies that succeeded and others that did not. He is an author of the national best-selling book, Building the Ultimate Network, and an Adjunct Professor for the Community College Workforce Alliance, teaching courses in Sales, Marketing, and Networking. Mark has undergraduate degrees in Communication, German and Business from the University of Central Florida and a Masters in Business Administration from Averett University.
Roanoke Sales Manager
Carissa has been opening doors and creating in-roads for over 20 years, in entrepreneurial, corporate, and government arenas. While she has developed client relationships, expanded company networks and set service records repeatedly in all her professional capacities, her proudest accomplishment remains the successful launch of her daughter, Jessica, into the professional workforce of NYC after Jessica’s college career at UVA.
Carissa is a graduate of Liberty University, as well as Leadership Roanoke Valley, a community focused professional enhancement program. She has completed multiple trainings and seminars with Cortex Leadership Consulting, including Leading a Winning Team, DISC, Cortex Team Strengths, Make Shift Happen—Turning Drama into Empowerment, Time Mastery, and several more. Resultant of her networking and engagement with Cortex, she partners with them to increase their brand penetration, offering unique assessment and coaching packages to optimize the client and candidate match. Carissa actualized her dream job when she opened the Roanoke office of Sales Recruiters of VA!
Direct: (540) 819-0126
Northern VA Sales Manager
Sales Recruiters of Virginia is pleased to announce the addition of Eric Ackerman, who will be handling both Northern Virginia and the Washington DC area. Eric has been a highly successful salesperson for over 30 years mainly Telecommunications and has held national positions in major companies such as Mitel and Toshiba.
Eric is the master of the “cold call” and has walked into many buildings in the United States with just his smile and a business card. New salespeople, pay attention, it still works. Eric also owned a successful golf store in Virginia Beach and sports a single digit handicap. We welcome Eric to our team and are lucky to have him.
