Sean Marx is an accomplished CEO with over 30 years of experience in building all elements of a dynamic, results-focused sales team.

In 1991, Sean founded Give Something Back Workplace Solutions and grew the company to thirty million in sales, making it one of the largest independent office products companies in the country. Before he sold Give Something Back in 2018, the company had more than forty customer service and salespeople, five thousand active customers, five locations, five sales managers and processed 13,000 transactions a month. As CEO, Sean’s success was due to his high-performance sales and customer service teams all focused on bringing solutions to customers. He has won numerous awards, including Bay Area Most Admired CEO (2011, San Francisco Business Times), California Small Business of the Year (Small Business Association, 2005) and Top Bay Area Forty Under Forty (San Francisco Business Times, 2001).

Sean is dedicated to giving back to the community and has spent countless hours on charitable work.  Give Something Back’s success at serving allowed them to donate millions to hundreds of community-based organizations that work tirelessly to improve the quality of life in their communities.  Sean has served on numerous non-profit boards including as Board Chair and is an accomplished fundraiser. Sean was recognized as Corporate Philanthropist of the Year (Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2005) and Give Something Back was awarded Most Generous Company in America (George Magazine, 1999).

Sean began his career in sales in the copier industry in 1988 and in his first year was one of Ricoh’s top salespeople in the nation. He was promoted to lead a sales team after eighteen months and at twenty-six, had a team of over twenty copier and fax sales reps in San Francisco.