Jerry Ruppert

I was discharged from the Navy at 8:00AM, stationed on the USS Juneau at 32nd street in San Diego. I started working for Copy line (then a Savin, Canon and Minolta dealer) at 9:00AM that same morning.

Since then I have held just about every position in the office equipment industry. Technician, Service area Supervisor, Service Branch Manager, VP of Service (heavily involved with sales) Regional Service VP for Erskine House/Alco and at the same time Branch Sales Manager in San Diego, Executive VP/partner, Executive VP of Sales and since 2006 the owner of Ameritech. Our first year we did just under 5 million in revenue after getting set up in a small office on Sky Park Circle. At one point we had 15 sales reps and just a many technicians, admin department, etc. We expanded to a bigger building and warehouse.

Then 2007/2008 hit and changed the total momentum of the business. Seemingly overnight we lost many accounts as leasing companies all but stopped approvals.

We lost large mortgage companies such as Nationpoint who was good for 35k per month in service revenue and 50k+ per month in equipment revenue. Mexicana Airlines was our account and eventually went under and many more. So I was able to recover to a "new" situation and have been doing well with a few major accounts and reduced headcount. Then Covid hit. It's been fun!

For the past several years it has been increasingly difficult to compete against larger companies as I no longer have the resources to walk into a major account and compete.

So what I am looking to do is to get a full time position focused on sales whether in house or remote.

The Insurance industry feels like it would be a good match for my skills and contacts.