Buckles-Smith Electric (Santa Clara, CA): Lance LaPonte was hired by the company as an account manager at the Santa Clara branch. Working in both electrical distribution and manufacturing fields, he brings with him in-depth knowledge and experience of the electrical industry. LaPonte previously was a territory manager for Hubbell-Wiring, working in the industrial and contractor markets. Jimmy Owens also joined the company’s sales team as an account manager in Santa Clara. He has experience in the industrial distribution and engineering fields, previously working in business development for US Fabrications and Director of Operations at Bart Manufacturing. Owens recently completing his Masters in industrial distribution from Texas A&M.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.
