National OfficersBTA President Terry ChapmanBusiness Electronics Corp.219 Oxmoor CircleP.O. Box 531066Birmingham, AL 35209Phone: (205) 942-6007Email: tchapman@businesselectronics.comChapman is president of Business Electronics Corp., Birmingham, Ala. He has served as president of Business Electronics Corp., a Toshiba and Lanier dealer in Birmingham, Ala., since 1988. He is a graduate of Birmingham Southern College and worked in the banking industry prior to his current role. Chapman was named BTA's Volunteer of the Year in 2008 and has served in several positions on the BTA Southeast board, including BTA Southeast president. BTA President-Elect Todd J. FitzsimonsNetwork Imaging LLC 122 Spring St.Southington, CT 06489Phone: (860) 621-1825Email: tjfitzsimons@networkimaging.bizFitzsimons is president of Network Imaging LLC located in Southington, Conn. He began his career in the document solutions industry in 1989. In 1991 he joined Hallet and Co. as sales manager. In 1997, he purchased the dealership and shortly after changed the name to Network Imaging LLC. The 53-year-old dealership sells Sharp, Kyocera and Lexmark products. The company's territory covers Connecticut as well as western Massachusetts. Fitzsimons, who was named BTA's Volunteer of the Year in 2011, resides in Connecticut with his wife Michele and their four boys. BTA Vice President Ron HulettU.S. Business Systems Inc.3221 Southview DriveElkhart, IN 46514Phone: (574) 264-3065Email: ron.hulett@usbus.com
Hulett is president and CEO of U.S. Business Systems Inc., located in Elkhart, Ind. Hulett formed the company in 1992 with three business partners, after he worked for a short time at another independent dealership. His dealership has since grown into a two-facility business with 30 employees. The $4 million-plus dealership serves northern Indiana and southern Michigan. It represents Sharp and Lanier, and also sells and supports workflow and document management software. Hulett was named BTA's Volunteer of the Year in 2012.
District Directors
BTA East
Rob Richardson Allied Document Solutions & Services Inc. 200 Church St. Swedesboro, NJ 08085 Phone: (856) 241-2000 Email: robr@ads-s.com
Richardson is owner and founder of Allied Document Solutions & Services (ads-s), Swedesboro, N.J. A graduate of Ursinus College, he is in his 18th year leading the company. A laser printer-centric organization, his dealership leads with Hewlett-Packard (HP) products and it has attained the elite status of Managed Print Advanced Specialist with HP. Richardson also sits on the Hewlett-Packard Partner Advisory Council. Recently, ads-s has attained authorization to sell and service Toshiba in its region. Over the last four years, Richardson has complimented the company's current product offerings of printer services and supplies with a managed print services solution.
BTA Mid-America
Dave Quint Advanced Systems Inc. 2945 Airport Blvd. P.O. Box 57 Waterloo, IA 50704 Phone: (319) 240-4632 Email: dquint@asiowa.com
Quint is president and CEO of Advanced Systems Inc., located in Waterloo, Iowa. Advanced Systems Inc. is a 55-year-old corporation that now includes eight offices covering a large part of northern and eastern Iowa, overlapping into Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. The dealership's primary manufacturers are Canon and Lexmark, and the company also offers document management and managed print solutions. Quint started with Advanced Systems Inc. in 1989 as a territory sales associate and has held various sales and management positions throughout his career with the company.
BTA Southeast
Debra Dennis CopyPro Inc. 3103 Landmark St. Greenville, NC 27834 Phone: (252) 756-3175 Email: ddennis@copypro.net
Dennis is general operations manager at CopyPro Inc., located in Greenville, N.C. She has worked for CopyPro for 26 years and has held several positions at the company, including dispatch supervisor, internal service support manager, assistant service manager and director of service. She has won seven KMBS national awards, and was named Service Manager of the Year from 2000-2007. Dennis has served on the BTA Southeast Board of Directors and is currently immediate past president of BTA Southeast.
BTA West
Mike Ehlers Yost Business Systems 685 E. Anderson Idaho Falls, ID 83401 Phone: (208) 552-7752 Email: mike@yostonline.com
Ehlers has served as president of Yost Business Systems for 11 years. The company, located in Idaho Falls, Idaho, sells Lanier and Kyocera products. Prior to serving a president of Yost Business Systems, Ehlers served as CFO for Yost Office Systems for 17 years. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (BA 1980). Ehlers and his wife, Lanette, have six children and four grandchildren, with four more to arrive in 2012. He has been involved as chairman of the local school board, is currently vice chairman of a local credit union board and has served in many leadership capacities in his church.
Ex-Officio/BTA Immediate Past President
Tom OuelletteBudget Document Technology251 Goddard RoadP.O. Box 2322Lewiston, ME 04240Phone: (207) 782-7427Email: touellette@bdtme.com Ouellette is president of Budget Document Technology, a Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita America and Samsung dealership headquartered in Lewiston, Maine, with a second office in Bangor, Maine. The company was founded in 1989 in Ouellette's garage. Today, his dealership employees 21 people. He has been in the industry since 1985, when he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy and started working on IBM Selectric and electric typewriters, copiers, word processors and early-version computers. He is a member of the Konica Minolta Dealer Advisory Council.Ex-Officio/General Counsel Robert C. GoldbergSchoenberg Finkel Newman & Rosenberg LLC222 S. Riverside Plaza, Ste. 2100Chicago, IL 60606Phone: (312) 648-2300Email: robert.goldberg@sfnr.com
Goldberg has served as general counsel for the Business Technology Association since 1977. He is also a partner in the Chicago law firm Schoenberg, Finkel, Newman & Rosenberg. He began his career serving in the Antitrust Division of the Illinois attorney general's office. Goldberg writes the monthly "Courts & Capitols" column in BTA's Office Technology magazine.
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