Our Staff
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Illinois
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Located in Arlington Heights, also covers Iowa
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Gene Sochor
gs@bai-rep.com
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President, also active as Sales Engineer. BSEE Illinois Institute of
Technology, BSC DePaul University; former Sales Engineer with RCA, various
retail positions with Allied Radio. Member, IEEE, ICS, VI; Senior Member,
ISA, SME, IES; Life Member, ARRL. Personal Interests include: Amateur radio
(N9SW), travel, fine arts, gourmet food/wine, photography, computers. Goes
through automobile adolescence every 3 years when the lease runs out.
Non-business e-mail to gsochor@interaccess.com. With BAI since 1969.
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Jack Christensen
jc@bai-rep.com
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Sales Engineer. BS in Bio-Engineering University of Illinois, ASEE DeVry;
design-engineer with BaxterTravenol Labs; previous electronics/photographic
product sales experience. Personal interests include: Car rallies
(designs/builds Timewise rally computers), wine tasting, oriental rugs,
computers, home improvement. Also answers to "John." Non-business e-mail to
chronos@comcast.net. With BAI since 1978.
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Rich Czepiel
rc@bai-rep.com
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Sales Engineer. Former Product Manager with Newark Electronics. Personal
interests: Politics (well-groomed activist, potential anarchist),
demographics, amateur radio (WA9QEW), bird feeding, self-improvement.
Member, SMPTE. Former community Police Commissioner in his home town. Sales
representative in consumer and industrial products since 1965. With BAI
since 1980. Personal e-mail to Rich.Berndt@ameritech.net
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Penny DeJohn
admin@bai-rep.com
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Headquarters Office Manager. The real "boss." Pays the bills, writes our
pay-checks. Personal interests: Fishing, camping, family events, bicycling, and cross-stitching. Loves a party! Also called "The Organizer," shamefully known to have a VERY CLEAN DESK. Full of energy, always cheerful, but tough when she needs to be.
Not a problem she can’t solve, except cash-flow. Easily assumed the duties of two people when she joined BAI in 2004.
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Indiana & SW Michigan
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Indiana and S.W. Michigan are now being handled from BAI HQ in Illinois
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Gene Sochor, Rich Czepiel
INFO@bai-rep.com
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We are currently serving both Indiana and S.W. Michigan from our Chicago-area headquarters. Both Gene and Rich share the travel, so you're guaranteed good responsiveness from two industry veterans. See our glowing attributes described above in the Illinois section. Personal email addresses: Gene: GS@bai-rep.com, Rich: Rich.Berndt@Ameritech.net
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Wisconsin
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Located in Milwaukee
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Dave Hohensee
dh@bai-rep.com
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Branch Manager/Sales Engineer. BSEE University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee);
Formerly did application engineering and sales in the process-control
instrumentation market, including LFE. Personal interests: Drag racing for
$$$$$ when its warm, bowling when its cold. Member, NHRA, IHRA (Hot Rod
organizations); Senior member, ISA. Runs the local block parties, wearing
his Cheesehead hat. Enjoys life even when the Packers lose. Personal email to DaveBerndt@aol.com. Active in
engineering sales since 1971, with BAI since 1989.
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Chris Hohensee
dh@bai-rep.com
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Administrative Assistant/Telemarketer/Significant Other to Dave. Paper pusher and office manager who
gives Dave the time to race cars and root for the Packers. Personal
interests: Travel…fakes it as a travel agent for the discounts, downhill
skiing, collects antiques (has some lamps older than Bill Schurtz, back to the
Civil War and even the 1700’s). With BAI sine 1991.
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Minnesota
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Minnesota, N. & S. Dakota now handled from Milwaukee, WI
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Dave Hohensee
dh@bai-rep.com
Chris Hohensee
dh@bai-rep.com
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If you think you've seen this before, you've been paying too much attention! For now, we're handling Minnesota and the Dakotas out of our Wisconsin Branch Office. Dave has polished up his language skills and can now speak in the appropriate dialects, and avoids controversy by not mentioning the Packers (much) after crossing borders.
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