President and CEO
Victor Jury Jr.
One of three founders of the company in May 1977 (with his father, Victor Jury Sr., and their partner, David Meredith), he became Summit's president in 1990. Summit has grown from a single store in Albuquerque, N.M., to a large, multifaceted company with 20 locations in five states. Jury stresses the values of integrity and ethics, and he invests considerable time and expense into training, preferring to build future leaders from within. Summit was awarded an Ethics in Business Award in 2003. He was honored with the "GEM Rising Star Award" from Electrical Wholesaling magazine in 1992. He serves on the advisory boards of several manufacturers and is a former chairman of the Education and Research Foundation, a branch of the National Association of Electrical Distributors. He was one of the first five people in the world to become a Gold Level graduate of the Electrical Products Education Course. Jury is involved in a number of civic programs, including the American Red Cross, and he served as Chairman of the Board for the national marketing cooperative The IMARK Group from 2004 to 2006.

Senior Vice President Purchasing & Asset Management
Joe Chesky
Chesky directed Summit's expansion into Texas, beginning with Dallas in 1986. The success of the Dallas location prompted Summit to open 10 other service centers in Texas. Chesky was named regional vice president and helped to direct operations in Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, Killeen and the Gulf Coast.

He was promoted to senior vice president of operations, in 2003, moving to Summit's headquarters in Albuquerque.

In May 2008, Chesky was tapped to oversee corporate purchasing, vendor relations and inventory/asset management. He is a Gold Level graduate of the National Association of Electrical Distributors' Electrical Products Education Course known as EPEC.

Chief Accounting Officer & Treasurer
Russ Hiller
Russ joined Summit as Corporate Controller in February 2005 and moved up to the executive team in September 2006. He's a Certified Public Accountant accredited in business valuation by the American Institute of CPAs. In 1995, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He had 10 years' experience in public accounting before coming to Summit.

Vice President Associate Resources/Chief Talent Officer & Corporate Counsel
Dan Long
An employment and labor relations law specialist prior to joining Summit, Long now works to recruit top talent and provide the best training in the industry. He is also responsible for developing and evaluating incentive programs and performance evaluation systems to manage Summit's current and future leadership. Long is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the New Mexico Human Resources Management Association, as well as a member of the New Mexico Bar Association and the Navajo Nation Bar Association.

Vice President Exports
Abdul Hooda
The 30-year veteran of the electrical business was an employee of Warren Electric Group in Texas when that company was purchased by Summit in December 2002. What was once a one-man team now has about 10 Associates from five countries who can transact business in eight languages. The former University of Houston marketing student says the export team offers one-stop service for foreign customers, handling sales, packaging, delivery and customs clearance.

Vice President Information Technologies
David Wascom
Wascom joined Summit thru the Warren Electric acquisition in 2002. He has been in the electrical distribution industry for 14 years, filling a number of roles from operations and sales management to inside and outside sales. Wascom has most recently served Summit as the leader of the SAP implementation project. He has a bachelor's degree in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration from Louisiana Tech University, as well as a Master of Science degree in Economics from Louisiana State University.

Vice President Marketing
Sheila Hernandez
Charged with sculpting the public face of Summit, Hernandez and her team have won multiple marketing awards. Hernandez has been with Summit since 1987, when she was a graduate student working on a summer internship. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the University of New Mexico and is a longtime member of the American Marketing Association. After serving many years as Summit's Marketing Coordinator, then Marketing Director, she was named as a vice president in January 2004. She is an EPEC Gold graduate and has served on two National Association of Electrical Distributors AdVenture committees. She currently serves on the marketing committee for IMARK, a national marketing cooperative.

Vice President Sales
Drew Ott
Ott began directing Summit sales strategies upon his hire on April 17, 2006. He's responsible for coaching the sales teams at the individual Service Centers, and he also works on the corporate level developing plans to bring Summit's unique brand of service to new customers in new markets. His past professional experience includes 15 years in the electrical distribution industry as a branch manager, district manager and regional vice president. He has had direct supervision of a major, multilocation electrical distribution team. He received a degree in economics from Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., in 1974.

Vice President Operations
Cole Harrison
Harrison joined Summit in 1998 after graduating from Texas A & M University with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. He began in the Albuquerque service center's warehouse and worked his way up to counter and inside sales positions before becoming a Dallas account manager. He was promoted to Houston service center leader in 2003 before being tapped as regional operations manager in January 2008.

Today Harrison oversees day-to-day operations of all 20 Summit locations across five states. He is a Gold Level graduate of the National Association of Electrical Distributors' Electrical Products Education Course known as EPEC.