JD Technologies Team
John Knott
President
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Connecticut.
- Masters in Mechanical Engineering (with an Electrical Engineering Minor) from Northeastern University.
- Masters in Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Certified Professional Manufacturer’s Representative CPMR®, 2014
Experience
John, President of JD Technologies Global, LLC, started his career with GE in Lynn, Massachusetts as a product design engineer and graduated from their rigorous Engineering Career Development Program. This was followed by senior design/new product design responsibility with United Technologies Corporation where he transitioned into marketing and sales.
With this experience, coupled with an MBA, he achieved assignments of increasing responsibilities with established high tech companies as well as start-ups. He has successfully represented manufacturers by selling products in the northeast region of the United States for over eighteen (18) years.
The common denominator with John Knott’s experience over the last eighteen years has been “identifying and satisfying customer needs better than the competition can or will do” and selling technical products and/or services resulting in increased revenue and profit.
Gerry Koury
Senior Sales Account Executive
Canada Office
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University
- Canadian Aerospace Market Expert
- Operations Management & Continuous Improvement Skills
Experience
Mr. Koury started his aerospace career with Pratt & Whitney Canada in the late 1970’s as an account manager. Over the last four decades Mr. Koury has been successful in generating new business and maintaining relationships with key customers in Canada. He has extensive experience in aerospace, military & defense, space, and related high-tech industries. He has a strong technical background with an engineering degree from McGill University, one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world.
Judy Monahan
Director of Marketing
Experience
Judy is responsible for all JD Technologies Global, LLC marketing efforts, including but not limited to:
- Coordinating with all our principals making sure our marketing efforts / strategy is an enhancement and complementary to their marketing strategy
- Composing and executing email marketing campaigns
- Writing and publishing press releases
- Scheduling and executing all marketing efforts using numerous platforms; e.g. Constant Contact, Publisher, Keap
In addition, Judy maintains the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software and ensures that the database of JD Technologies Global, LLC contacts is accurate and up to date.
Judy also manages the JDTechSales.com website which includes adding new content to the website such as new blog posts and news items. She is the contact person for our principals and works with them to create their principal page. She communicates with them often to continually update with new items of interest.
Judy is detail oriented and strives for accuracy and precision in all she does.
Laura Rivera
Marketing Manager
Experience
Laura has experience in the Health Care, Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer industries. Responsibilities include sales as well as customer service. As a Geriatric Program Director for Devereux House, a skilled nursing facility she specialized in Alzheimer’s patients. Laura was responsible for social activity planning, patient care planning, conveyed a philosophy that supported the dignity, privacy, independence, choice, and individuality of residents.
Laura also has experience in the automotive and publishing industries. As a Client Care specialist at Michaud Mitsubishi, she created a strong rapport and set specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplished daily task. Developed valuable connections with clients to provide vehicle information in response to inquiries about products, services, and finance options and set appointments to give customers an opportunity to view the product in person and potentially purchase.
As a Marketing/Production coordinator she was successful at communication with direct vendors from China, Request for Quotes, and arranging Product sample shipments. Assists with travel plans when preparing for product fairs in China, Hong Kong, and New York City.
Laura’s passion resides in working in the customer service industry and strongly believes in ethics and integrity and genuinely cares about people.
Matthew Knott
Vice President
Head of JD Energy
Qualifications
- Masters in Business Administration from Babson College, 2011
Experience
Matthew brings over 10 years of experience in engineering, marketing, sales, and product management within multiple verticals of the energy industry. As a Senior Sales Engineer and Product Manager for ABB’s Distribution Components, a division of Power Products Business Unit, Matthew was responsible for simultaneously managing a $70 MUSD line of instrument transformer products while successfully introducing new distribution sensor solutions to the market. Prior to joining ABB, he worked with Invensys Operations Management (now Schneider Electric) as an Application Engineer. There he was responsible for the design and implementation of distributed control systems in a variety of generation plants ranging from 50KW biomass to 1000MW nuclear reactors.
In addition to his work in large corporations, Matthew has experience growing start-up companies that provide innovative system solutions for the energy industry. Matthew’s work in leading both product management and marketing new solutions have helped utilities manage the shifting paradigm of increasing two-way power flow due to increasing distributed generation, more stringent security, environmental, and efficiency regulations, and the growing need to manage capacity in real-time along the distribution grid.
Matthew’s passion resides in working with customers to find the right solutions solving key problems that improve the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of end user products / systems.
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