Chris Mellis - Speaker Bio - OMNIA Partners Connections 2021

Chris Mellis is the Senior Vice President, State, Higher Ed & Strategic Accounts for OMNIA Partners, the largest and most experienced organization in group purchasing. OMNIA Partners serves the government, education, manufacturing, and corporate markets.

As Senior Vice President, Mr. Mellis is responsible for increasing the overall growth of all OMNIA Partners strategic accounts. These accounts include relationship building with all 50 states, higher education institutions along with the largest airport and housing authorities in the country. In addition, Mr. Mellis and his team work with contracted supplier partners daily via joint calls and trainings to ensure these strategic accounts maximize their contract’s value.

Mr. Mellis joined OMNIA Partners following a 15-year career at U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance where he served as Senior Vice President of Sales.

During his term at U.S. Communities, Mr. Mellis was responsible for building and maintaining the sales team, along with implementing plans for the organization’s go to market strategy, creating an online marketplace and a reporting program to better track program usage.

Under the direction of Mr. Mellis, the sales team was instrumental in growing sales for the U.S. Communities program from $300 million annually to $3.2 billion annually.