Team

      GTEC International Team

Ben Orenstein                                   Our Executive Team
President & CEO                                       

Corporate Executive P&L responsibility , Business Development, Sales & Marketing Executive with over 30 years experience in the High-Tech Industry. Build and managed Engineering support, direct & indirect sales teams, Domestic ( The Americas ) & International (EMEA, APAC).
Lived and worked in USA (home), Europe & China

Education:
MBA & Electronic Engineering (BSEE)

Product Area Experience includes:
Semiconductors, Solar Systems, PC Peripherals, Hard Drives, Wireless Communications, Networking (LAN), Power Line Communication (PLC, Home Plug), Test & Measurements, and Document Imaging.


Ben Orenstein has held executive & key positions w/ following companies in the High-Tech industry:
>>President & CEO, Power-V Group/Pvinergy (Electronic components & Solar Systems)
>>President, Symmetry Electronics,
Asia-Pacific (APAC),
>>Director, LeCroy, Europe-Middle East (EMEA).
>>Vice President, Valence Semiconductors, Europe & Middle East (EMEA)
>>President, Global Technology, International Sales Rep/Distributor for: Western Digital, Philips, SMC, Internet Document Imaging, Corinex, ICS.
>>Vice President, Western Digital, International Sales,
>>Director of Sales, Western Digital, USA Sales




Greg Peel                                  Our Management Team
Vice President: UK & Northern Europe                           

Greg Peel has over 25 years’ experience in sales, marketing, and engineering management:

CEO at SiLock, a start-up company developing the next generation storage accelerator for fast data transfer and storage in SSD’s.

Vice President, International Sales for IntellaSys, a semiconductor and solutions company developing multi-core processors, security interface devices, and multimedia solutions.

Greg has lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has a B.S. from the University of Washington and an MBA from UCLA.  

Greg worked in the storage industry much of his career, where he held executive positions at: :
>>Indigita Corporation (VP Worldwide Sales)
>>SyQuest (VP Asian Sales Operations)
>>Sharp Corporation (VP and General Manager, OEM Sales)
>>Western Digital, where Greg started the Asian operations for the company and grew it to a $300 million business.

 

Ales Konarovsky                   Our Management Team
Vice President- Czech Republic & Central Europe                                       

Ales has over 20 years experience in the High-Tech industry, as an Engineer, Entrepreneur, Business Manager/Partner, managing distribution & service companies in Czech Republic.

Ales held Engineering positions as Sr. Design engineer for Prague Institute of Transportation Engineering,
and Terplan Prague.

Business , Sales Excutive & Entrepreneur expereince includes: PAKS Ltd - General Manager, Partner- Distribution for PC componenrs & Peripherals. Franchised Distributor for Western Digital.

Imaging system Ltd: General Manager , Partner, document management Hardware & Software, Distribution & Service.


Education:
Engineer, Civil engineering.

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    manager Imaging Systems s.r.o January 1997 – Present (20 years)Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic Imaging System s.r.o. provide all scanning and OCR/ICR/OMR services in our country - if you need to convert papers (all from office folders and archives) to PC, let us know! Manager
    Imaging Systems spol. s r.o. December 1996 – Present (20 years 1 month)Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic Scanning all kinds of paper documents, designs, maps. OCR, ICR, OMS. Sale Abbyy products, scanners Sceye ...
    manager Imaging Systems s.r.o January 1997 – Present (20 years)Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic Imaging System s.r.o. provide all scanning and OCR/ICR/OMR services in our country - if you need to convert papers (all from office folders and archives) to PC, let us know! Manager
    Imaging Systems spol. s r.o. December 1996 – Present (20 years 1 month)Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic Scanning all kinds of paper documents, designs, maps. OCR, ICR, OMS. Sale Abbyy products, scanners Sceye ...
      

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Michel Ouaknine                        Our Management Team
Vice President - France & Southern Europe                           

Michel has over 25 years of experience in the Semiconductor , and Computer Peripherals industries. Michel was Business Manager/Founder of French or European subsidiaries of US companies, as well as Design Engineer, and Applications Engineer
Michel started as Design Engineer then Applications Engineer for companies like Intel, Intersil & Zilog
He founded & Managed the Paris, France, subsidiaries of Intersil Systems Europe, Western Digital & Rodime (South Europe), Genus Europe, Mattson Tech. (South EU) & WaferMasters (EU).
Michel has a strong semiconductor experience, more specifically in the area of Microprocessors, Communications, Memories & Discs and Manufacturing Equipments.
Michel is graduated from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and is author of 2 books on microprocessors and many scientific papers on semiconductor technology.

 

 

Louis-Armand Ettedgui            Our Management Team
VP of Business Development                   

LOUIS-ARMAND HAS BEEN IN THE IT INDUSTRY FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS. A SEASONED, VERSATILE SALES EXCUTIVE WITH A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD, HI HAS BUILT SUBSTANTIAL BUSINESS FOR MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES THAT INCLUDE GENERAL ELECTRIC INFORMATION (GE), DATAPOINT CORPORATION, HONEYWELL-BULL, XEROX, PRIME COMPUTER, AVNET AND GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION. 

LOUIS-ARMAND HAS ALSO MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CREATING NEW BUSINESS IN THE RESELLER CHANNELS INCLUDING DISTRIBUTORS, OEMS AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS THROUGHOUT THE USA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA & EUROPE.

LOUIS-ARMAND SERVED AS VICE-PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL SALES DEVELOPMENT FOR GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION HEADQUARTERED IN WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA. IN THIS CAPACITY, LOUIS-ARMAND CREATED A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK OF COMPUTER COMPONENT PRODUCTS IN AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE. 

LOUIS-ARMAND HAS EARNED NUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS IMCLUDING  FIVE PRESIDENT'S CLUB INCENTIVE AWARD TRIPS. HE is fluent French in AND CONVERSANT IN SPANISH AND ARABIC.

  LOUIS-ARMAND HOLD A MBA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CASABLANCA. HE STUDIED GRADUATE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS @ SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NY AND QUINNIPIAK COLLEGE IN HAMDEN, CT." 

 


Andrey Ansimov                         Our Management Team
Vice President - Russia & CIS Region                       

Andrey Ansimov has an impressive track of record in new business development in Russia & CIS Region.

Sales experience in the High-Tech, IT, and FMCG industries.

Recruited by International Pharmaceutical Company in 2010 As General Manager, Moscow operation. Under his leadership the company double its profits, and for the first time to take a leading position in the Russian market

. Western Digital company. Sales and business development division. Education: Moscow State University, (BA) Business & Administration Management

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