Bill Cook - President |
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Incorporated Petra in December of 1985 and began operations as the lone salesperson in the entire territory. The Petra organization now includes 3 Southern California salespeople representing key lines such as, Cygnal, Simtek, Music Semiconductor, Northstar Systems, Powertip, Illinois Lock, Baco, AGE, DDH, and Zyrel. | |
| Sales experience includes positions as a manufacturers representative with SC Cubed (4 years), regional sales manager with SPI, field sales engineer with General Instrument Micro., and product management with Beckman Instruments. As a rep, Bill has sold for Acumos, Ascent Power Technology, Astec, Assemble in Mexico, Avansys, Brooktree, CablesToGo, California ASIC, Calogic, Centennial, Chips & Technologies, Chloride, CTX, Dallas, Degussa, Eagle Picher, EDI/White, Emerging Display, Excelan, Fujitsu (connectors), Gompf Brackets, Hanaco, Honeywell (VHSICs), JMR, KEC, Lattice, Linear Tech., Lucky-Goldstar, Microscience, Microsistemas, Mitsubishi (semiconductors), M-Tron, Multi-Contact, New Japan Radio, Nidec, ODU-USA , Optek, Orbis Industries, Pacific Shores Assembly, Pillar, PCC Composites, Plessey, Raltron, Raytheon, Secma, Semi-Kinetics, Sigma Designs, Silicon Systems, Sullins, Starconn, Supertex, Taxan, Toshiba (peripherals), UDT Sensors, Vertex LCDs, Whitways, Xymox and many others. | ||
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| Education: MBA, Pepperdine University BS Industrial Tech., Cal State Long Beach Radar Tech, USMC, Vietnam Veteran |
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Art Ramirez - Salesman, San Diego |
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| Joining Petra Products in September of 2002,
Art Ramirez brings years of sales experience servicing the Southern California markets,
focusing on San Diego since 1979. For over 30 Art has successfully sold a wide variety
of products, services and components ranging from board level products to complete
product assembly. Ten years distribution sales experience with Minarik Electric and
later working with a large Orange County based rep company in the San Diego territory
has created a wealth of product knowledge along with a strong network of loyal customers.
Some of Arts' major accounts are Hewlett Packard, Kyocera, Powerware, Cubic Transportation Systems, Titan, United Tote, Hunter Industries, Overland Data, Volex plus many other diverse technology companies.
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Mike Frost - Salesman, Los Angeles and San Fernando valley |
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Before joining Petra late in 1989, Mike was the western regional sales manager for Automated Systems, Inc., and western sales Director for Algorex Corporation in the field of PCB and ceramic substrate CAD engineering and manufacturing services. Mike also has experience as a contract designer and has provided his services to such firms as TRW, Scientific Microsystems, SHM Nuclear, and he was in sales and operations management with Drafting Dynamics. | |
| Mike has very successfully sold the products of Petra's principals, demonstrating his adaptability by landing major orders for ASICs on behalf of Raytheon, TLSI, and Music, turnkey manufacturing programs both domestic and offshore, maquiladoras, power supplies and other components. He is our resident PCB expert and leading ASIC salesperson, and was our top revenue producer in 1997 and 1998. | ||
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| Education: Pursued Engineering at Long Beach City College and Control Data Institute Radar technician, USAF |
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