Announcements
East Coast welcomes Joseph Bahnatka as Power Services Division Manager
Tinton Falls, NJ, January 8, 2010 – East Coast is pleased to announce the hiring of Joseph Bahnatka as East Coast Power Services’ Division Manager, as well as an overall Professional Consulting Resource for East Coast Power. Joseph joins the East Coast Power family at an exciting time, as East Coast recently opened its new state-of-the-art corporate headquarters in Tinton Falls, NJ.
Joseph brings nearly 30 years of experience to East Coast as a sales engineer in all aspects of electrical power equipment and after-market service sales. His impressive career includes experience with industry leaders, such as Siemens and ASCO Power Technologies. Joseph seeks to put his expert experience in sales, consultation, technology and creative innovations to work for East Coast Power.
‘We are very pleased to have Joseph be a part of the East Coast Family,” says Salvatore J. Rinaldi, Jr., President of East Coast Power Systems. "Joseph's industry experience and professional skills make him an excellent asset to our company, and we're excited to see how this new relationship can help to propel East Coast in 2010 and beyond."
Joseph has a multi-faceted knowledge of the industry, as he has served as an Electrical Engineer, Product Manger, Sales and Marketing Director, Director of Strategic Accounts, and Consultants Account Manager for both ASCO and Siemens.
Joseph’s new responsibilities with East Coast will be to drive sales through all East Coast divisions with a specific concentration on East Coast’s service capabilities. Joseph will also be using his relationship management experience to align East Coast with strategic engineering firms that will promote East Coast products and services.
Now in its 26th year, East Coast Power Systems was founded in 1983 as East Coast Panelboard, a specialty and quick-ship manufacturing plant for panelboards and switchgear. The company‘s three divisions -- East Coast Panelboard, East Coast Control & Automation and East Coast Power Services -- now provide the nation‘s largest electrical distributors with a variety of stock and custom components, including panelboards, utility cabinets, switchboards, switchgear, cell towers, ground bars, circuit breakers, transfer switches, cam-locks, custom industrial control panels, motor control centers, and EPO.
