The B.A.N.K. Story
BANKCODE Founder and Chairman Cheri Tree invented B.A.N.K. in the early 2000s out of a desperate need to sell more effectively– and an inability to find sales tactics that actually delivered as expected. Everyone seemed to agree that letting the prospect determine the presentation was a guaranteed path to success in sales, but no one seemed to agree on how to accurately figure out what individuals wanted. After studying a number of personality-based sales systems, Cheri realized the problem was that she had no accurate way of finding out their personality type without a long, often pricey assessment. That’s when she reverse-engineered the science to develop B.A.N.K.– the first system that Coded other people in seconds.
Cheri used B.A.N.K. to take her annual sales commissions from $72,000 to over $500,000 in a single year and to over $1 million in just three! People started clamoring to learn Cheri’s secret, and she was booked to speak at hundreds of conferences, events, and companies about her game-changing B.A.N.K. methodology. B.A.N.K. was changing lives– but Cheri knew that she could never share B.A.N.K. with the whole world alone.
Cheri struck out on her own in 2010 to start a training company focused exclusively on teaching B.A.N.K., and later a technology company, Codebreaker Technologies, to bring disruptive technology to the marketplace. With the help of a growing international team, Cheri created a company worth millions with clients in over 100 countries. B.A.N.K. has revolutionized the way we sell – and it will continue to change lives as the company expands.
The B.A.N.K. Journey
Our Corporate History
February 1998
Cheri Tree joins financial services direct sales company as an independent, commission-only agent
1998 - 2003
March 2003
Cheri hits record income over $1 million and shatters all sales records by earning $261,000 in 28 days using B.A.N.K. and training her sales team
December 2006
August 2008
Cheri begins training B.A.N.K. for private clients
April 2010
May 2011
B.A.N.K. is turned into our first profitable product, an instructional audio course sold for just $25
Cheri creates digital B.A.N.K. products and signs her first international clients via online webinars
July 2011
March 2013
Cheri signs a speaking contract with the largest personal development company in the world and is invited to speak at major international conferences
B.A.N.K. expands to Asia, starting in Malaysia and Singapore certifies the first group of trainers in Asia
April 2013
July 2013
B.A.N.K. expands to Africa, starting in South Africa and certifies the first group of trainers in Africa
B.A.N.K. expands to Europe, starting in the Netherlands and certifies the first group of trainers in Europe
October 2013
November 2013
B.A.N.K. is taught at Harvard to MBA students
B.A.N.K. PASS is launched, providing a personality typing technology to pinpoint a person’s B.A.N.K. Code online in less than 90 seconds
February 2014
July 2014
Cheri Tree gets nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year by ARWEY in Monte Carlo
Cheri Tree formalizes and registers her company as Codebreaker, Inc., DBA BANKCODE
October 2015
January 2016
Live B.A.N.K. Training Courses are expanded, formalizing our Signature Series curriculum
Independent study at San Francisco State University formally validates B.A.N.K. methodology, allowing us to publish our first white paper
March 2016
July 2016
The first B.A.N.K. Virtual Training courses go live inside the B.A.N.K. Vault with virtual interactive training courses, tracking, and accountability for individual subscribers and large sales team
Cheri Tree gets nominated as Innovator of the Year by the Orange County Business Journal
August 2016
July 2017
Cheri’s book on B.A.N.K., Why They Buy, is released, providing BANKCODE with valuable international exposure and best seller status
July 2017
October 2018
Cheri Tree registers Codebreaker Technologies, Inc. as a new entity for the corporate enterprise sector
Codebreaker Technologies founds an Executive Advisory Board with Dr. Hans Keirstead and Neil Sahota as their first two EAB members
January 2019
March 2019
Forbes magazine publishes article online titled The Future of Sales, profiling B.A.N.K.’s upcoming launch of their artificial intelligence, Codebreaker AI
Google contracts us to bring in the B.A.N.K. system and train their top sales teams in their online cloud division
April 2019
May 2019
Cheri Tree gets invited to speak at the United Nations AI For Good Summit in Geneva, Switzerland
Cheri Tree announces new CEO of BANKCODE, and new CEO and President of Codebreaker Technologies, Inc.
July 2019
August 2019
Codebreaker Labs research division launches 2nd white paper for the direct sales channel, validating that B.A.N.K. drives revenue and recruitment
Codebreaker AI officially launches as a beta version of the world’s first artificial intelligence powered by B.A.N.K.