Team
Our success derives from a dedicated team of hard-working, creative professionals that are passionate about our industry & dedicated to our clients.
Outside Sales
Mark Peterson
In 2005, Mark assumed the role of President and Owner of Johnson Company and is committed to providing the same great service that Johnson Company has been proud of for over 30 years. Mark attended college at the University of Minnesota, majoring in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. After several years working in the aerospace field, Mark moved to a local injection molding and tooling company where he managed both the sales and engineering efforts of the company. After a number of successful years, Mark made his final transition to Johnson Company in 2000. Mark and his wife, Dianna, live in Blaine with their three children.
Trent Brown
Trent comes to Johnson Company with 15 years of sales experience in the electronics industry. After he received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics he began his career as a District Sales Manager for a major connector company in our industry. Trent also has 9 years as an independent sales representative in the local Minnesota market, specializing in various electro-mechanical products. Trent has expertise in navigating through large corporations and following through to get the sale. In 2010, Trent joined Johnson Company and is responsible for Northern and Southeastern Minnesota.
Brian Nyberg
Brian graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He started out traveling the country as a field service engineer before moving into an electrical engineer position that included product, system and PCB design for nearly 20 years. He then spent over 3 years in a field sales role as an account manager at Future Electronics. At Johnson Company, he will be combining that previous experience as a Sales Engineer, with an account base focused in Minneapolis and North Dakota. Brian and his wife, Becky, live in Centerville with their daughter.
Bob Mundahl
Bob comes to Johnson Company with over 30 years of electronic accomplishments. Bob has focused his career in passive, electro-mechanical, interconnect, power and the turn-key solutions space of the electronics industry. Most recently, Bob was managing the central U.S. as the Regional Sales Manager for a manufacturer of electro-mechanical switches and devices. Bob brings to Johnson Company a complete skill set - sales, customer relationship development, manufacturing, technical advice and design, and real world experience in providing solutions and value-added benefits for all parties. Bob lives in Apple Valley with his wife.
Troy Herzog
Troy is our Channel / Sales Manager, he brings 28 years of distribution experience with several different companies. He still has the "get it done push" and spends all of his time calling on distributors; so, please use his knowledge. Being 100% distribution, Troy understands and supports all needs coming from the channel. Troy and his wife have 2 children. He enjoys spending most of his time off and weekends with his family, which has expanded to include grand kids, doing outdoor things. A true Minnesotan, he can often be found at the lake.
Chris Jones
Chris has grown up in the local Missouri area, attending high school in an eastern Kansas City suburb and then University of Missouri in Columbus, MO. For the last 8 years, Chris has worked for 2 different electronic distribution companies. He stared started with a broad-line component firm and then spent his recent years at a specialty distribution company focused on connectors and cable assemblies. When not working or traveling throughout the territory, Chris enjoys coaching baseball in the summer and keeping up with his wife, four sons, and 2 dogs!
Mike Reynolds
Mike comes to Johnson Company with an extensive background in sales and engineering. Mike has a degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Marquette University. Mike has held positions at Emerson Electric, White Rogers Division, as well as, Account Management at Pioneer-Standard, Arrow Electronics and Avnet. He is responsible for Western Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska territories. Mike lives in St. Louis with his wife, two daughters and the family dog. When not working, Mike's hobbies include making steak butter.
Patrick Kelly
Patrick graduated from Marquette University in 2014 with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. After traveling the world playing soccer, he settled down and started his engineering career with a rugged server manufacturer in Cedar Rapids. Over the last 4 years, he spent his time manufacturing and designing computers, servers, harnesses, and printed circuit boards. His role with Johnson Company will be to support the Iowa market. Patrick lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with his wife and two kids. When he is not working, you will likely find him playing soccer or playing with his kids.
Bob Gilbert
Bob brings a new aspect to Johnson Company with an MSEE degree from the University of Missouri and over 30 years of electrical/electronics design experience. Bob started out of college at Emerson Electric and has spent the last 15 year prior to Johnson Company at Graco, Inc. managing the Electrical/Electronics group for the Contractor Equipment Division. The combination of electronics and electro-mechanical systems is a natural fit, not to mention Bob was a previous customer of several Johnson Company's Principals for many years. Bob joined Johnson Company in 2011 and has recently semi-retired and handles only one key account directly, and then indirectly helps the rest of the team if a more technical aspect is required on sales calls.
Staff Engineer / FAE
Ken Glazer
Ken comes to Johnson Company with over 30 years of experience in the electronics market place in both engineering and field sales. Ken started his career as a Systems Design Engineer before moving into various technical sales positions. Ken has held a a variety of other positions including Fujitsu Companies Vice President with sales, marketing and engineering all reporting to him, as well as, General Manager for one of the FSP Technology group companies doing custom power supply business development. Joining Johnson Company allows Ken to get back to hands-on customer concept design work, ground level technical marketing efforts, and even full custom solution development efforts when required. A full CAD station, electrical test bench, and other electrical support equipment is planned to support Ken in this role within Johnson Company.
Inside Sales / Operations
Brian Mountin
Brian is Johnson Company's inside technical source. He comes with 18 years of technical inside sales experience in electronics, electro -mechanical, wire harnessing and value-add distribution. Prior to working in distribution, he worked as an IT specialist and also as a component level electronics repair technician. He has an Associate of Science degree in electronics. Brian lives very close to our office and is active in volunteering in local youth sports.
Sue Peters
Sue is Johnson Company's office manager and often the first voice you hear when calling. Her previous work experience includes managing several large call centers, as well as, employee benefits health care. Sue is involved in any aspects of the companies back office operations. With kids on both coasts and the mid-west, time outside of work is spent planning travel and putting together care packages for the wing-nuts.