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title: | Rick Hern
description: Rick Hern is the principal of Temper Advisory, where he helps mid-market industrial manufacturers build revenue engines that last. Over 35 years in B2B manufacturing he has led sales, marketing, quality and CRM teams, served as a CMO and sales executive, and implemented Salesforce and Pardot. He is Six Sigma trained. Rick works as a fractional CRO, CMO or CSO and also leads diagnostics, implementations and strategy facilitation.
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