Patton to Manage Customer Service at Van Meter’s Recently Acquired Bright Electric

Josh Patton will serve as Van Meter Industrial's regional customer service manager (RCSM) for the company’s recently-acquired Bright Electric location at 217 N. Western Avenue in Chicago.

Jim Lucy Blog

March 1, 2016

Van Meter Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa): Josh Patton will serve as regional customer service manager (RCSM) for the company’s recently-acquired Bright Electric location at 217 N. Western Avenue in Chicago. Patton will assume responsibility for the inside sales, counter sales, operations and lighting quotations teams in Chicago.

Bright Electric President David Borovsky will direct his focus to business development and leading the Bright Electric-Powered by Van Meter outside sales team.

Patton joined Van Meter in October of 2011 as an RCSM and then Sales Manager in Waterloo, Iowa. Prior to his time at Van Meter, Patton worked at RuffaloCODY and Grainger Industrial Supply. A graduate of the University of Phoenix, Patton holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management. He also served in the U.S. Navy. Patton is passionate about giving back to the community. He shares his time and talent with Habitat for Humanity, Partners in Education, and Junior Achievement. Patton will transition to his new role in Chicago over the next 30 to 45 days.

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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.